Milí kolegové a kolegyně,
chtěli bychom vás srdečně pozvat na další přednášku semináře, která se koná tento týden ve středu 5.4.2017, od 17:20 v posluchárně S4.
Hostem na semináři bude Daniel Morais z Mikrobiologického ústavu AV ČR a téma přednášky bude
You can change the knowledge about the microbial universe.
Těšíme se srdečně na vaši účast!
Za všechny organizátory semináře s pozdravem, Petr Daněček
Stránky semináře http://bioinformatika.mff.cuni.cz/seminar/
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Speaker: Daniel Morais
Title: You can change the knowledge about the microbial universe.
Abstract: The relationship between humans and microbes attracts the scientific interest since the creation of the first lens by Anton van Leeuwenhoek. From the last 200 years, microbes have been strictly associated to diseases, a way of thinking that drove huge effort towards methods to avoid and eliminate them at all costs. This phobia and huge seek for a germ free environment ended up hindering our own health. Nowadays we are starting to realise their importance to our own physiology training our immune system, producing vitamins and processing the food we eat. Our thoughts about how to deal with microbes are changing in an unprecedented way. The knowledge regarding microbial communities and their behaviour is increasing daily thanks to our new capacity of generating genomic data. Using high-throughput sequencing platforms we are now uncovering a huge diversity of still unknown metabolisms and microbial species. All this information is being stored in public database and the methods for processing and interpreting this information became our biggest bottleneck. Every microbiologist nowadays feels the need to learn how to manage biological data in a more effective way. In this speech you will learn the most used strategies for microbial community data analyses and how a bioinformatician could contribute to be part of this huge paradigm change that microbiology is undergoing.