International Summer School on Advanced Techniques in Bacterial Genome Research

28 September 2009 – 3 October 2009

- Lectures in cutting-edge research -
- Practical courses in advanced genome and post-genome techniques -
- Company presentations -

Lecture Program

All lectures will be held in the CeBiTec laboratory building in seminar room G2-104.

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Introduction to the Summer School

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

09:00 From Mycoplasma capricolum to 1000 complete microbial genomes: Building genome analysis and annotation tools for 15 years
Christoph Sensen
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sun Center of Excellence for Visual Genomics, Calgary, Canada
10:00 A suffix-tree based approach to alignment-free comparative genome analysis
Andreas Dress
CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB), Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS),
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, China
11:30 Computational tools for comparative genomics of prokaryotes
Joao Setubal
Virginia Bioinformatics Institute and Department of Computer Science
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, USA
19.00 New Methods in Metabolomics - LECO GCxGC
Ercan Tekçe
LECO Instrumente GmbH, Mönchengladbach, Germany

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

09:00 Practical Aspects of Bacterial Genome Reduction
Tamas Feher
Biological Research Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
10:00 Regulatory RNAs in prokaryotes: Here, there and everywhere
Franz Narberhaus
Institute for Biology of Microorganisms, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
11:30 Analysis of Metagenome Sequence Data obtained from a Biogas-producing microbial Community by means of Bioinformatics
Andreas Schlüter
Institute for Genome Reserach and Systems Biology, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld, Germany
19:00 Cancer Tumour/Normal Pair Analysis with the Illumina Genome Analyzer
Dirk Evers
Computational Biology, Illumina Inc., U.K.

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

09:00 From transcriptomics to functional analyses: an overview of recent and revived past methods
Anke Becker
Institute for Biology III, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
10:00 Modern proteomics - Towards the entire proteome of Gram-positive bacteria
Dörte Becher, Michael Hecker
Institute for Microbiology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
11:30 CVTree: a convenient web tool for prokaryote phylogeny and taxonomy
Hao Bailin
T-Life Research Center and Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
19:00 One Genome – One scaffold – Sequencing of microbial genomes on the Genome Sequencer FLX System
Marcus Dröge
Global Marketing Director Genome Sequencing, Roche Applied Science, Penzberg, Germany

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

09:00 Life style and genome evolution in Neisseria meningitidis
Christoph Schoen
Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, Würzburg University, Würzburg, Germany
10:00 Sequencing and annotation of the genome of Herbaspirillum seropedicae Z78
Fabio Pedrosa
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Universidade Federal do Paraná UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil
11:30 Genome-based systems biotechnology
Volker Wendisch
Chair of the Genetics of Prokaryotes, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany