Microbiota Course
This course provides a practical guide to microbiota-health research, covering study design, methods, analysis, and reporting for rigorous results.

from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Microbiota Course gives you a concise, practical roadmap to design, run, and interpret microbiota–health studies with confidence. Learn core concepts of human-associated communities, molecular and culture-based methods, robust sampling, and data handling. Gain hands-on insight into bioinformatics, statistics, confounder control, reporting standards, and project planning so you can deliver rigorous, publishable results.
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Develop skills
- Design microbiome studies: define questions, select cohorts, control confounders.
- Apply sequencing and culture methods: choose, run and quality-check microbiota assays.
- Analyze microbiome data: process reads, test diversity, model taxa–health links.
- Use bioinformatics tools: build reproducible QIIME2-based and shotgun pipelines.
- Interpret and report results: assess causality, limits, and meet MIxS sharing standards.
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