Schedule BioSB course Computational Metagenomics (October 26-28, 2026)
More information about this course can be found through this link.
See the map of the Wageningen campus for the location of the Forum (102) and Orion (103) buildings.
| Day | Time | Location | Teacher(s) | Topic |
| Monday October 26 | 10:45-11:00 | Orion B4045 | Marnix Medema | Course Introduction |
| Monday October 26 | 11:00-12:30 | Orion B4045 | Marnix Medema | Samples & sequencing technologies for metagenomics |
| Monday October 26 | 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||
| Monday October 26 | 13:30-16:30 | Orion B8045 | Gijs Selten / Marnix Medema | Quality control, assembly and binning |
| Monday October 26 | 16:30-17:30 | Orion B8045 | Jingyuan Fu | Pan-genomics & phylogenetic diversity etc. |
| Tuesday October 27 | 09:00-11:00 | Orion B4030 | Ronnie de Jonge (/ Georg Zeller) | Taxonomic assignment and profiling, connecting taxonomy, functions and genomes |
| Tuesday October 27 | 11:00-12:30 | Orion B4030 | Anne Kupczok | Viromics & phages |
| Tuesday October 27 | 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | ||
| Tuesday October 27 | 13:30-15:30 | Forum B0767 | Marnix Medema | Functional annotation: biosynthetic pathways & metabolism |
| Tuesday October 27 | 16:00-17:00 | Forum B0767 | Georg Zeller | Functional profiling via Gene Catalogues / CAZy |
| Tuesday October 27 | 18:30-21:00 | Dinner | ||
| Wednesday October 28 | 09:00-12:00 | Forum B0773 | Jingyuan Fu, Daoming Wang | Differential analysis, metadata association and causal inference |
| Wednesday October 28 | 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | ||
| Wednesday October 28 | 13:00-14:00 | Forum B0773 | Ali May (dsm-firmenich) | Industrial applications of microbiome research: evidence, decisions and products |
| Wednesday October 28 | 14:00-16:00 | Forum B0773 | Georg Zeller, Selin Pekel | Machine learning, common pitfalls in statistical and machine-learning analyses |
| Wednesday October 28 | 16:00-17:00 | Orion C2035 | Shinichi Sunagawa (ETH Zurich) | Closing keynote |