Topic: single-cell methods

This practical course follows microbial metagenomics from environmental sampling to biological interpretation. Advanced PhD students and early postdoctoral researchers work through DNA extraction from soil and water, library preparation and long-read metabarcoding using Nanopore or PacBio technologies. Computational training covers raw-read processing, assembly, reconstruction of metagenome-assembled genomes, functional annotation and statistical analysis in reproducible workflows. Phage genomics and single-cell methods extend the core approaches. Lectures, experiments, group work and discussi

This meeting examines how pollutants, infections and other environmental exposures interact with genetic susceptibility to cause chronic inflammatory disease. Immunologists and environmental scientists study how barrier-surface immunity decodes these influences. The programme combines early-life and population cohorts, single-cell methods, microbial and dietary environments, experimental exposures and mucosal defence to connect mechanisms with prevention and treatment. Programme participants include Martine Vrijheid (Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Spain); Petter Brodin (Imperial Colle