Computational Approaches in Bacterial Resistance Research

This is a block (pro)seminar covering topics related to bacterial antibiotic resistance.

Tutor: Valentina Galata

Dates:

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Place and Time: E2.1, room 206, 8:30 a.m. sharp

Requirements for participation:

Certificate requirements:

Submitting the first version of the slides (see presentation guidelines, slide guidelines)
Successful presentation:
- Talk: 30 minutes (proseminar); 40 minutes (seminar)
- Questions from the audience after the presentation
Attendance to all presentations
Submitting a summary (ca. 2 pages)

Topics: The presentation should cover all papers assigned to a topic.

Nr.	Presentation	Topic	Participant
1	Seminar	1) Kaiju: Fast and sensitive taxonomic classification for metagenomics	Pan L.
2	Seminar	1) Inferring Horizontal Gene Transfer; 2) HGTector: an automated method facilitating genome-wide discovery of putative horizontal gene transfers	Waqas D.
3	Seminar	1) MetaRef: a pan-genomic database for comparative and community microbial genomics	Christian M.
4	Seminar	1) Multi-locus sequence typing: a tool for global epidemiology; 2) Inadequacies of minimum spanning trees in molecular epidemiology	Muhammad R.
5	Seminar	1) Detection of second-line drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using oligonucleotide microarrays	Kemi O.
6	Pro-Seminar	1) Rapid antibiotic-resistance predictions from genome sequence data for Staphylococcus aureus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Nancy M.