Date

Activity

  15/3/2016
  Tuesday
  8.30 am - 5.30 pm

  Registration
  PART I
  Lecture 1: Microbial ecosystems from pole to pole
  Lecture 2: Microbial species identification and phylogenetics
  Lecture 3: Environmental stress response and the genes involved
  Lecture 4: Transcriptomics for studying environmental stress
  Experimental design session 1: Transcriptomics

  16/3/2016
  Wednesday
  9.30 am – 5.30 pm

  Lecture 5: Enzymes as biomarkers
  Lecture 6: Proteomics in environmental monitoring
  Lecture 7: Metabolites and microbes
  Lecture 8: Metabolomics as a tool
  Experimental design session 2: Proteomics
  Experimental design session 3: Metabolomics

  17/3/2016
  Thursday
  9.30 am – 5.30 pm

  Lecture 9: Metagenomics and microbial communities
  Lecture 10: Ecosystem-level impacts of climate change
  Lecture 11: Microbes and ecosystem functioning
  PART II
  Practical training session: Isolation and identification of soil microfungi

  18/3/2016
  Friday
  9.30 am – 5.30 pm

  Practical training session: Isolation and identification of soil microfungi (continued)