Meeting: EU-US Training in Marine Bioinformatics; June 17-30, 2012, Bremen, Germany

现代分子和基因组方法使生物学家能够提出和回答以前难以解决的问题。这些现代方法产生了大量的数据，需要使用计算工具进行有效和高效的分析。海洋微生物学家越来越多地使用这种方法来询问复杂的海洋微生物群落，这些微生物群落通过使用其他方法无法获得更大的了解。然而，大多数海洋科学教育计划不准备提供利用最现代化的工具所需的计算培训。今天将提供海洋生物信息学课程培训？的海洋科学家在这些现代计算工具，以提高他们的能力，获得新的理解和见解，这些海洋微生物系统。美国-欧盟生物技术研究工作队建议，应开发这类培训课程，以建立这种能力。培训课程将于2012年夏季在德国雅各布斯大学举办。海洋生物信息学培训课程的主要目的是将青年科学家聚集在一个论坛上，为今后的海外合作奠定基础，并为研究生、博士后研究人员和教职员工提供资源，以获得适当的实验设计和多样性分析、（Meta）基因组学、（Meta）转录组学、（Meta）蛋白质组学、（Meta）代谢组学、以及来自海洋环境的相关环境背景数据。该课程将培训30名学员，大西洋两岸各15名。将从计算机科学、生物信息学、海洋微生物生态学、分子微生物学、环境科学和海洋学等一系列背景中招募参与者。该课程将由科学主席组织：詹妮弗F。Biddle，School of Marine Science and Policy，University of特拉华州，Lewes DE，USA和Frank奥利弗Glöckner，马克斯普朗克海洋微生物学研究所，不莱梅雅各布斯大学，不莱梅，德国。本课程将通过为早期职业科学家提供广泛的跨学科培训来扩展他们的研究技能。课程结束后，每位学员都将被要求报告他们为传播课程材料所做的努力，并将为无法参加的学员发布在线内容。该课程的网站可以在http://www.microb3.eu/events/workshops/eu-us-training上找到。

Modern molecular and genomic approaches have enabled biologists to ask and answer questions that had previously been intractable. These modern approaches yield vast volumes of data, which require the use of computational tools for effective and efficient analysis. Marine microbiologists are increasingly employing such methods to interrogate complex marine microbial communities, which have defied greater understanding by use of other approaches. However, most marine science educational programs are not prepared to offer the computational training needed to utilize the most modern tools. A course in marine bioinformatics will be offered to train today?s marine scientists in these modern computational tools to enhance their ability to gain novel understanding and insights about these marine microbial systems. The US-EU Taskforce on Biotechnology Research recommended that this type of training course be developed to build such capacity. The training course will be held in the summer of 2012 at Jacobs University in Germany. The main aims of the Marine Bioinformatics training course are to bring together young scientists in a forum that will set the groundwork for future overseas collaborations, and to provide a resource for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and faculty to acquire the skills-set necessary for proper experimental design and for analysis of diversity, (meta)genomics, (meta)transcriptomics, (meta)proteomics, (meta)metabolomics, and associated environmental contextual data from the marine environment. The course will train 30 participants, with 15 from each side of the Atlantic. Participants will be recruited from a range of backgrounds such as computer science, bioinformatics, marine microbial ecology, molecular microbiology, environmental science and oceanography. The course will be organized by scientific chairs: Jennifer F. Biddle, School of Marine Science and Policy, University of Delaware, Lewes DE, USA and Frank Oliver Glöckner, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen & Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany. This course will impact early career scientists by providing them broad interdisciplinary training to expand their research skills. Each participant will be required to report on their efforts to disseminate course material after the course ends, and online content will be posted for those unable to attend. The course website can be found at http://www.microb3.eu/events/workshops/eu-us-training.