Microbiota Course
This course equips participants with the skills to design, execute, and analyze microbiota-health research studies effectively, covering microbial principles, techniques, bioinformatics, and reporting standards for publishable results.
from 4 to 360h flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Microbiota Course provides a concise, practical guide to designing, conducting, and analysing microbiota-health studies with assurance. You will learn essential principles of human-associated microbial communities, molecular and culture-based techniques, reliable sampling, and data management. Acquire practical knowledge in bioinformatics, statistics, controlling confounding factors, reporting guidelines, and project organisation to produce solid, publishable outcomes.
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Develop skills
- Design microbiome studies: define research questions, choose participant groups, and manage confounding variables.
- Apply sequencing and culture techniques: select, perform, and validate microbiota analyses.
- Analyse microbiome data: handle sequence data, evaluate diversity, and model associations between taxa and health.
- Utilise bioinformatics tools: develop repeatable pipelines using QIIME2 for amplicon and shotgun sequencing.
- Interpret and report findings: evaluate causal relationships, acknowledge limitations, and adhere to MIxS data-sharing standards.
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