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Soil microbial communities affect the development and fertility of soils. Next-generation DNA sequencing technologies now open possibilities for analyzing these communities in regard to their composition (diversity) and function at depths not imaginable only a few years ago. The new speed and cost efficiency of these novel sequencing technologies now requires an effort for a corresponding response from soil microbial ecology. Vice versa, the requirements to characterize microbial communities and address ecologically relevant questions will instruct further bioinformatic efforts, e.g., for found statistical evaluations and visualizations of results.
This 2nd Thünen Symposium on Soil Metagenomics will connect bioinformatics to microbial ecology in order to enhance our capacity to tackle the most burning questions in soil ecology. What can we learn about the diversity, dynamics, vulnerability and ecological contributions of soil microbial communities and how can we utilize the new sequencing technologies in applied environmental sciences? Which novel possibilities do we have to understand the complex network within microbial communities, and interactions among its members and with the abiotic and biotic environments?
The Symposium will be flanked by a Workshop on Bioinformatic Tools in which developers demonstrate and share applications for analyzing nucleic acid information from soils.
Information on participating / attending:
Online registration at www.soil-metagenomics.org.
For further details and conference fees please see also this website.
Date:
12/11/2013 08:30 - 12/13/2013 18:00
Event venue:
Thünen Institute, Forum
Bundesallee 50
38116 Braunschweig
Niedersachsen
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Biology, Environment / ecology, Zoology / agricultural and forest sciences
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference, Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
08/23/2013
Sender/author:
Dr. Michael Welling
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event44564
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