- The ENC conference was arranged at The Aberdeen Skyway Hotel, and finished on Sep 30th.
- The NORA project meeting, was arranged at the NCIMB on Oct 1. All presentations, as well as minutes from the meeting can be found in the NORA intranet.
- The NORA Summer School 4 was held at UNIABD, starting on Oct 2-9. Program overview below. A detailed program, can be found here.
- The recommended literature for the school has been uploaded here.
School 4 - Omics technologies; Microbial culture collections; Transferable skills.
Friday Oct 2 |
High-throughput sequencing of functional (N-cycle) genes: sample preparation, bioinformatic tools and statistical approaches (Laurent Philippot, Sara Hallin, Aymé Spor and Chris Jones) |
Saturday Oct 3 |
Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics (Pascal Simonet) |
Sunday Oct 4 |
Computer analysis of metagenomic data |
Monday Oct 5 |
Phylogeny (Graeme Nicol) |
Tuesday Oct 6 |
Writing research papers and grant applications (Jim Prosser) |
Wednesday Oct 7 |
Writing research papers and grant applications – exercises (Jim Prosser) |
Thursday Oct 8 |
School visits |
Friday Oct 9 |
School visits (morning only) |
The Lectures will be in the Zoology Building, the Practicals in the Cruickshank Building.