EBG Metagenomics Workshop
EBGs aim to advance the fields of both metagenomics and metaproteomics by providing training, better tools and new approaches. Since 2018, our team has staged an international workshop providing hands on training to twenty participants in the wetlab sessions and fifty participants in the bioinformatics sessions from many countries and institutions.
Pioneers of Metagenomics - Environment and Health minisymposium
Each year, during the workshop, we also hosted the half-day "Pioneers of Metagenomics - Environment and Health minisymposium" symposium, which is open to both workshop participants and University of Calgary students and researchers. Besides the workshop participants, 74 and 94 students and researchers registered for the event in 2018 and 2019, respectively. The symposium speakers were from the University of Calgary and other institutions.
Metagenomics Workshop 2019
Participants from five countries and 18 institutes. Learn more about the workshop, please check
EBG Metagenomic Workshop 2019 fun moments
The workshop has two sessions. The two-day wetlab session started on August 19, 2019 and it enrolled 10 participants. The five-day bioinformatics session was started on August 21, 2019 and it enrolled 30 participants worldwide
EBG Metagenomic Workshop 2018 fun moments
The workshop 2018 had two sessions. The two-day wetlab session started on August 19, 2019 and it enrolled 10 participants. The five-day bioinformatics session was started on August 21, 2019 and it enrolled 30 participants worldwide
Metagenomics Workshop 2018
Participants from six countries 12 cities, and 13 institutes. Learn more about the workshop, please check
Topics and speakers from the past symposium events
Dr. Josh D. Neufeld
Professor, Department of Biology
University of Waterloo, Canada
Title: Through a glass (less) darkly: resolving wastewater nitrification through metagenomics
Dr. Laura Sycuro
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada
Title: Defining the vaginal microbiome with genome-resolved metagenomics: Have we opened Pandora’s Box?
Dr. Marc Strous
Professor, Department of Geoscience, Faculty of Science
University of Calgary, Canada
Title: Proteomics and stable isotopes to unravel the ecology of microbial mat microbiomes
Dr. Carolina Tropini
Assistant Professor, SBME/Microbiology & Immunology, School of Biomedical Engineering
University of British Columbia,Canada
Title: Dynamics of microbiota communities during physical perturbation
Dr. Peter Dunfield
Professor, Biological Sciences
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Title: Single-cell genomics of uncultured bacterial phyla in Canada's most extreme environments
Dr. Marie-Claire Arrieta
Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Cumming School of Medicine
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Title: Gut microeukaryotes, a missing link in microbiome studies
Dr. Laura Hug
Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Microbiology
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Title: Bioremediation capacity in municipal waste sites identified through genome-resolved metagenomics
Dr. A. Murat Eren (Meren)
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, and a Fellow of the Marine Biological Laboratory
University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Title: Microbial colonization dynamics in the human gut: from metagenome-assembled genomes to cultivars and back