Presentation of master project at status seminarPeter Rendbæk
My presentation at the status seminar.
The status seminar is all the master students at AAU Biotechnology department presenting their master thesis after four months of work.
[2014.08.25] Albertsen ISME15 CAMI: Why metgenomics is brokenMads Albertsen
This presentation discusses some limitations of current metagenomics analysis methods. It shows that taxonomic classification can be inaccurate without reference genomes and that microdiversity within species impacts assembly and estimates of genome completeness. It also demonstrates through a simple mock community how abundance of species affects assembly. New methods are needed to account for microdiversity and improve binning of genomes from metagenomes.
The document proposes cloning the luciferase gene from the deep-sea planktonic worm Tomopteris helgolandica to improve visualization of in vivo protein dynamics. Current bioluminescence microscopy techniques have limitations such as weak signal strength from luciferase genes. The researchers aim to identify and clone the luciferase gene from T. helgolandica, analyze its properties, and compare its emission signal to other luciferases. They hypothesize that the cloned gene will overcome limitations of existing techniques for visualizing in vivo protein dynamics. The proposed methodology includes obtaining zooplankton samples, isolating T. helgolandica, cloning its luciferase gene, analyzing light emission of the transgenic product, and comparing it to commercial lucifer
Shane Mossman is seeking a full-time position in biotechnology, microbiology, or engineering utilizing his B.S. in BioMolecular Engineering from Milwaukee School of Engineering. He has experience in microbiology lab work including cell culture, PCR, and identifying bacteria. His senior design project developed a rapid Legionella detection kit. Currently he works as a Micro Lab Specialist executing microbial analysis and research.
This lecture discusses DNA biosensors and biochips. It explains the principles of DNA biosensors, including nucleic acid hybridization and how perfect matches result in stable double-stranded DNA while mismatches result in weak hybridization. It also describes the different forms of DNA biosensors, such as electrodes and chips, as well as types including optical, electrochemical, and piezoelectric. Finally, it outlines several methods for immobilizing DNA probes onto transducer surfaces, such as simple adsorption onto carbon, covalent linkage to gold via functionalized monolayers, or using biotinylated DNA and an avidin or streptavidin surface.
DNA biosensors use the principles of nucleic acid hybridization and have different forms including electrodes, chips, and crystals. There are three main types - optical, electrochemical, and piezoelectric biosensors. DNA probes can be immobilized onto transducer surfaces through simple adsorption onto carbon, covalent linkage to gold via alkanethiol monolayers, or using biotinylated DNA and avidin/streptavidin complexes on surfaces. The immobilization method depends on the surface and involves covalent coupling or functional group interactions.
The document summarizes the iGEM competition and the projects of University College Cork's 2014 iGEM team. The iGEM competition is an annual synthetic biology competition for undergraduate students. UCC's 2014 team developed two projects: Operation Hagfish aims to mass produce a biopolymer from hagfish slime in bacteria, while Biagnostics develops a novel DNA diagnostic method using bacteria. The team's goal is to present their work at the 2014 iGEM Jamboree in Boston and compete for prizes across various categories.
The student was assigned to take photomicrographs of a moth specimen for a biology lab course. They placed the moth under a stereomicroscope using the whole mount technique and reflected light. They adjusted the light and focus, magnified the image as desired, and took several pictures. The objective was to practice microscopy techniques and document the assigned organism.
Presentation of master project at status seminarPeter Rendbæk
My presentation at the status seminar.
The status seminar is all the master students at AAU Biotechnology department presenting their master thesis after four months of work.
[2014.08.25] Albertsen ISME15 CAMI: Why metgenomics is brokenMads Albertsen
This presentation discusses some limitations of current metagenomics analysis methods. It shows that taxonomic classification can be inaccurate without reference genomes and that microdiversity within species impacts assembly and estimates of genome completeness. It also demonstrates through a simple mock community how abundance of species affects assembly. New methods are needed to account for microdiversity and improve binning of genomes from metagenomes.
The document proposes cloning the luciferase gene from the deep-sea planktonic worm Tomopteris helgolandica to improve visualization of in vivo protein dynamics. Current bioluminescence microscopy techniques have limitations such as weak signal strength from luciferase genes. The researchers aim to identify and clone the luciferase gene from T. helgolandica, analyze its properties, and compare its emission signal to other luciferases. They hypothesize that the cloned gene will overcome limitations of existing techniques for visualizing in vivo protein dynamics. The proposed methodology includes obtaining zooplankton samples, isolating T. helgolandica, cloning its luciferase gene, analyzing light emission of the transgenic product, and comparing it to commercial lucifer
Shane Mossman is seeking a full-time position in biotechnology, microbiology, or engineering utilizing his B.S. in BioMolecular Engineering from Milwaukee School of Engineering. He has experience in microbiology lab work including cell culture, PCR, and identifying bacteria. His senior design project developed a rapid Legionella detection kit. Currently he works as a Micro Lab Specialist executing microbial analysis and research.
This lecture discusses DNA biosensors and biochips. It explains the principles of DNA biosensors, including nucleic acid hybridization and how perfect matches result in stable double-stranded DNA while mismatches result in weak hybridization. It also describes the different forms of DNA biosensors, such as electrodes and chips, as well as types including optical, electrochemical, and piezoelectric. Finally, it outlines several methods for immobilizing DNA probes onto transducer surfaces, such as simple adsorption onto carbon, covalent linkage to gold via functionalized monolayers, or using biotinylated DNA and an avidin or streptavidin surface.
DNA biosensors use the principles of nucleic acid hybridization and have different forms including electrodes, chips, and crystals. There are three main types - optical, electrochemical, and piezoelectric biosensors. DNA probes can be immobilized onto transducer surfaces through simple adsorption onto carbon, covalent linkage to gold via alkanethiol monolayers, or using biotinylated DNA and avidin/streptavidin complexes on surfaces. The immobilization method depends on the surface and involves covalent coupling or functional group interactions.
The document summarizes the iGEM competition and the projects of University College Cork's 2014 iGEM team. The iGEM competition is an annual synthetic biology competition for undergraduate students. UCC's 2014 team developed two projects: Operation Hagfish aims to mass produce a biopolymer from hagfish slime in bacteria, while Biagnostics develops a novel DNA diagnostic method using bacteria. The team's goal is to present their work at the 2014 iGEM Jamboree in Boston and compete for prizes across various categories.
The student was assigned to take photomicrographs of a moth specimen for a biology lab course. They placed the moth under a stereomicroscope using the whole mount technique and reflected light. They adjusted the light and focus, magnified the image as desired, and took several pictures. The objective was to practice microscopy techniques and document the assigned organism.
Micro B3 Information System and Biovel: Resources, Services, Workflows and In...Renzo Kottmann
This document summarizes resources, services, workflows and interfaces provided by the Micro B3 Information System and BioVeL for microbial genomics and bioinformatics research. Key points include:
- The Micro B3 Information System provides databases, analysis tools, and metagenomic workflows for functional trait-based analysis of aquatic microbial communities.
- Services include RESTful APIs, web mapping services, tools for data access and analysis, and ecological analysis tools.
- Workflows integrate sample collection, sequencing, analysis and metadata submission from projects like Ocean Sampling Day.
- Interfaces include web and mobile applications for data access, visualization and field data collection.
- The systems are open source and collaboratively developed.
The document discusses experimental phenomics and biosample management. It outlines the basic components of the phenomics pipeline from disease model creation and characterization to data management and sharing. It describes the Australian Phenome Bank which provides access to phenotypic data and mouse strains through an integrated database, archiving, and distribution system. Challenges of managing biosamples and ensuring privacy while enabling discoverability are also discussed.
This document provides a summary of Malavika Sinha's qualifications and experience. Her PhD research at Washington State University involved successfully engineering a fungus to express bacterial genes for hydrocarbon production, representing an important step towards producing biofuels from fungi. She has strong skills in molecular biology, microbiology, and bioinformatics and is looking for postdoctoral research opportunities to continue contributing to advanced biofuel research.
This document summarizes several applications of genetic engineering, including:
1) Developing bacteria and cyanobacteria that can synthesize ammonia at large scale for fertilizer production.
2) Using recombinant DNA technology to monitor degradation of industrial waste.
3) Genetically altering the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescence to produce light by transferring the luciferase gene from another bacterium.
4) Genetically altering Pseudomonas fluorescence to cause death of specific pests like cutworms.
This document discusses genetic and physical mapping of genomes. Genetic mapping determines the relative positions of genes on chromosomes using linkage analysis, while physical mapping determines absolute positions using available techniques. The goals of genome projects are to complete a detailed human genome map and physical map, acquire the genome as clones, determine full sequences, and find all genes. Genetic mapping uses markers and restriction enzymes to cut DNA at specific sites. Benefits include locating disease genes, more nutritious foods, and research applications, while costs have decreased from $350,000 to an hoped for $1,000.
1) A municipal solid waste incinerator located in Besançon, France began operating in 1971 and processes around 67,000 tons of waste per year, emitting levels of dioxins and other pollutants.
2) Studies have found higher than expected rates of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and soft tissue sarcoma around the incinerator.
3) Further epidemiological studies using atmospheric diffusion models and measuring dioxins in local food have found associations between higher dioxin exposure levels and NHL.
Encyclopedia of Life: Use cases for phenotypesCyndy Parr
EOL aggregates and curates scientific data from multiple sources to provide comprehensive summaries of taxa. It has grown from 2.8 million pages and 2 million data objects two years ago to 3.3 million pages and over 5 million data objects today. EOL is working to improve semantic search, link data to external resources, promote text mining and crowdsourcing, and provide analyzable data summaries to enable new types of research across the tree of life.
The document summarizes progress made in DNA barcoding since the 2009 conference in Mexico City, including increased participation from non-academic sectors, acceleration of plant barcoding studies, adoption of barcoding standards by government agencies, expanded applications of barcoding, and increased data sharing through projects mining tissue from major collections. It notes barcoding is near a tipping point but faces challenges around scaling up efforts to build a comprehensive reference library, including engaging more collections and fieldwork with taxonomy support.
Alexander Cook is a 2018 graduate of Utah State University with a degree in Biological Engineering and a 3.83 GPA. He has research experience in spider silk protein purification and characterization of material properties from his work at the Bio-Innovations Lab. Cook also has experience with genetic engineering and DNA manipulation from his work on the International Genetically Engineered Machine team in 2015. He is fluent in English and Portuguese and has volunteered with non-profits in Brazil and with Special Olympics in Utah.
Building a Community Cyberinfrastructure to Support Marine Microbial Ecology ...Larry Smarr
06.09.21
Invited Talk
Center for Earth Observations and Applications
Advisory Committee
Title: Building a Community Cyberinfrastructure to Support Marine Microbial Ecology Metagenomics
La Jolla, CA
This webinar discussed the importance of soil microbiomes and how microbiome profiling using sequencing can provide insights for agricultural work and research. It covered key topics like the complex microbial communities in soil, different sequencing methods for taxonomic and functional profiling, important considerations for projects like collecting metadata and avoiding confounders, and how to get started with soil microbiome analysis.
The development of insect resistance to the key fumigant phosphine is driving renewed interest in the development of alternatives. One such alternative is the use of low oxygen atmospheres that are usually created through the generation of nitrogen. However, the costs of nitrogen generation have
been a longstanding barrier to the adoption of the low oxygen atmospheres in agricultural storages such as grains.
The research team has taken advantage of recent advances in the cost of nitrogen generation (membrane technology) to assist industry overcome operational barriers to uptake of the
technology.
Joe Chen is a bioengineering student at UC Berkeley expected to graduate in May 2019. He has relevant coursework in drug delivery, biomedical physiology, computational biology, and genetics. His technical skills include programming languages like Java and Python as well as lab techniques. For experience, he has conducted undergraduate research in microfluidics and CRISPR/Cas9 drug delivery. He also has consulting and research assistant roles. Additionally, he leads the professional development committee for ISPE, organizing networking events.
How Waves of Innovation in Biotechnology Shaped a Small Business VentureChristopher Kemp
I recently had the opportunity to visit a multi-cultural STEM high school this past December. Here is my talk/deck for the student body of PRISMS (Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science).
Statusseminar presentation at Aalborg University of my master thesis work so far. Hand in date: early June 2017. Check out https://knaldhat.shinyapps.io/shinyampvis/
This document provides an overview of visualizing omics data and analyzing 16S rRNA gene sequencing data. It begins with an agenda that includes visualizing omics data, reintroducing 16S analysis, and hands-on 16S analysis in Rstudio. It then discusses topics such as why the 16S gene is commonly used, typical 16S analysis workflows involving sampling, extraction, sequencing, and bioinformatics, and resources for learning about 16S analysis.
What can you learn from molecular modeling?digitalbio
A presentation given by Dr. Sandra Porter at the Biotechnology Educators Conference, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, July 2015
For more information, see http://DigitalWorldBiology.com
The document provides information about the life sciences industries in Massachusetts, highlighting several key points:
- Massachusetts has over 120 universities that conduct significant research, with Harvard and MIT being the most renowned. Both universities have extensive research programs in fields like biology, neuroscience, cancer, and more.
- The state has a large and innovative life sciences industry, with many major companies and over 100 hospitals that receive substantial NIH funding. Massachusetts ranks high in areas like new drug approvals.
- The state also has a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem centered around Boston, with over 3,700 tech startups, several accelerator programs, and institutions that provide mentorship and support to entrepreneurs. This has helped the biotech and digital health sectors in
This document discusses DNA extraction and primer selection for 16S amplicon sequencing of microbial communities. It recommends standardizing extraction protocols, using intense bead beating, and V1-3 primers for activated sludge samples. Experiments comparing different extraction parameters, storage conditions, and primers found that bead beating intensity and duration most affected community profiles in activated sludge. Standardizing protocols and selecting primers that maximize coverage are important for obtaining representative views of microbial ecology.
Micro B3 Information System and Biovel: Resources, Services, Workflows and In...Renzo Kottmann
This document summarizes resources, services, workflows and interfaces provided by the Micro B3 Information System and BioVeL for microbial genomics and bioinformatics research. Key points include:
- The Micro B3 Information System provides databases, analysis tools, and metagenomic workflows for functional trait-based analysis of aquatic microbial communities.
- Services include RESTful APIs, web mapping services, tools for data access and analysis, and ecological analysis tools.
- Workflows integrate sample collection, sequencing, analysis and metadata submission from projects like Ocean Sampling Day.
- Interfaces include web and mobile applications for data access, visualization and field data collection.
- The systems are open source and collaboratively developed.
The document discusses experimental phenomics and biosample management. It outlines the basic components of the phenomics pipeline from disease model creation and characterization to data management and sharing. It describes the Australian Phenome Bank which provides access to phenotypic data and mouse strains through an integrated database, archiving, and distribution system. Challenges of managing biosamples and ensuring privacy while enabling discoverability are also discussed.
This document provides a summary of Malavika Sinha's qualifications and experience. Her PhD research at Washington State University involved successfully engineering a fungus to express bacterial genes for hydrocarbon production, representing an important step towards producing biofuels from fungi. She has strong skills in molecular biology, microbiology, and bioinformatics and is looking for postdoctoral research opportunities to continue contributing to advanced biofuel research.
This document summarizes several applications of genetic engineering, including:
1) Developing bacteria and cyanobacteria that can synthesize ammonia at large scale for fertilizer production.
2) Using recombinant DNA technology to monitor degradation of industrial waste.
3) Genetically altering the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescence to produce light by transferring the luciferase gene from another bacterium.
4) Genetically altering Pseudomonas fluorescence to cause death of specific pests like cutworms.
This document discusses genetic and physical mapping of genomes. Genetic mapping determines the relative positions of genes on chromosomes using linkage analysis, while physical mapping determines absolute positions using available techniques. The goals of genome projects are to complete a detailed human genome map and physical map, acquire the genome as clones, determine full sequences, and find all genes. Genetic mapping uses markers and restriction enzymes to cut DNA at specific sites. Benefits include locating disease genes, more nutritious foods, and research applications, while costs have decreased from $350,000 to an hoped for $1,000.
1) A municipal solid waste incinerator located in Besançon, France began operating in 1971 and processes around 67,000 tons of waste per year, emitting levels of dioxins and other pollutants.
2) Studies have found higher than expected rates of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and soft tissue sarcoma around the incinerator.
3) Further epidemiological studies using atmospheric diffusion models and measuring dioxins in local food have found associations between higher dioxin exposure levels and NHL.
Encyclopedia of Life: Use cases for phenotypesCyndy Parr
EOL aggregates and curates scientific data from multiple sources to provide comprehensive summaries of taxa. It has grown from 2.8 million pages and 2 million data objects two years ago to 3.3 million pages and over 5 million data objects today. EOL is working to improve semantic search, link data to external resources, promote text mining and crowdsourcing, and provide analyzable data summaries to enable new types of research across the tree of life.
The document summarizes progress made in DNA barcoding since the 2009 conference in Mexico City, including increased participation from non-academic sectors, acceleration of plant barcoding studies, adoption of barcoding standards by government agencies, expanded applications of barcoding, and increased data sharing through projects mining tissue from major collections. It notes barcoding is near a tipping point but faces challenges around scaling up efforts to build a comprehensive reference library, including engaging more collections and fieldwork with taxonomy support.
Alexander Cook is a 2018 graduate of Utah State University with a degree in Biological Engineering and a 3.83 GPA. He has research experience in spider silk protein purification and characterization of material properties from his work at the Bio-Innovations Lab. Cook also has experience with genetic engineering and DNA manipulation from his work on the International Genetically Engineered Machine team in 2015. He is fluent in English and Portuguese and has volunteered with non-profits in Brazil and with Special Olympics in Utah.
Building a Community Cyberinfrastructure to Support Marine Microbial Ecology ...Larry Smarr
06.09.21
Invited Talk
Center for Earth Observations and Applications
Advisory Committee
Title: Building a Community Cyberinfrastructure to Support Marine Microbial Ecology Metagenomics
La Jolla, CA
This webinar discussed the importance of soil microbiomes and how microbiome profiling using sequencing can provide insights for agricultural work and research. It covered key topics like the complex microbial communities in soil, different sequencing methods for taxonomic and functional profiling, important considerations for projects like collecting metadata and avoiding confounders, and how to get started with soil microbiome analysis.
The development of insect resistance to the key fumigant phosphine is driving renewed interest in the development of alternatives. One such alternative is the use of low oxygen atmospheres that are usually created through the generation of nitrogen. However, the costs of nitrogen generation have
been a longstanding barrier to the adoption of the low oxygen atmospheres in agricultural storages such as grains.
The research team has taken advantage of recent advances in the cost of nitrogen generation (membrane technology) to assist industry overcome operational barriers to uptake of the
technology.
Joe Chen is a bioengineering student at UC Berkeley expected to graduate in May 2019. He has relevant coursework in drug delivery, biomedical physiology, computational biology, and genetics. His technical skills include programming languages like Java and Python as well as lab techniques. For experience, he has conducted undergraduate research in microfluidics and CRISPR/Cas9 drug delivery. He also has consulting and research assistant roles. Additionally, he leads the professional development committee for ISPE, organizing networking events.
How Waves of Innovation in Biotechnology Shaped a Small Business VentureChristopher Kemp
I recently had the opportunity to visit a multi-cultural STEM high school this past December. Here is my talk/deck for the student body of PRISMS (Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science).
Statusseminar presentation at Aalborg University of my master thesis work so far. Hand in date: early June 2017. Check out https://knaldhat.shinyapps.io/shinyampvis/
This document provides an overview of visualizing omics data and analyzing 16S rRNA gene sequencing data. It begins with an agenda that includes visualizing omics data, reintroducing 16S analysis, and hands-on 16S analysis in Rstudio. It then discusses topics such as why the 16S gene is commonly used, typical 16S analysis workflows involving sampling, extraction, sequencing, and bioinformatics, and resources for learning about 16S analysis.
What can you learn from molecular modeling?digitalbio
A presentation given by Dr. Sandra Porter at the Biotechnology Educators Conference, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, July 2015
For more information, see http://DigitalWorldBiology.com
The document provides information about the life sciences industries in Massachusetts, highlighting several key points:
- Massachusetts has over 120 universities that conduct significant research, with Harvard and MIT being the most renowned. Both universities have extensive research programs in fields like biology, neuroscience, cancer, and more.
- The state has a large and innovative life sciences industry, with many major companies and over 100 hospitals that receive substantial NIH funding. Massachusetts ranks high in areas like new drug approvals.
- The state also has a strong entrepreneurial ecosystem centered around Boston, with over 3,700 tech startups, several accelerator programs, and institutions that provide mentorship and support to entrepreneurs. This has helped the biotech and digital health sectors in
This document discusses DNA extraction and primer selection for 16S amplicon sequencing of microbial communities. It recommends standardizing extraction protocols, using intense bead beating, and V1-3 primers for activated sludge samples. Experiments comparing different extraction parameters, storage conditions, and primers found that bead beating intensity and duration most affected community profiles in activated sludge. Standardizing protocols and selecting primers that maximize coverage are important for obtaining representative views of microbial ecology.
This document provides an overview of genomics and metagenomics. It begins with an introduction to genomics, describing genome assembly, validation, and metabolic reconstruction. It then covers metagenomics, discussing its history, pitfalls, and potentials. Key points include that genomics analyzes the parts list of a single genome, while metagenomics analyzes the collective genomes of an entire microbial community. Metagenomics has been used to explore novel sequences from various environments, perform comparative analyses between ecosystems, and extract genomes from low-abundance species.
A VIVO VIEW OF CANCER RESEARCH: Dream, Vision and RealityPaul Courtney
Presentation made by Paul Courtney (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA and OHSL, MD) and Anil Srivastava (OHSL) at the 2013 VIVO conference in St. Louis, MO. Material contributed by Rubayi Srivastava (OHSL), Swati Mehta (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India), Juliusz Pukacki (Poznan Supercomputing and Network Center, Poland) and Devdatt Dubhashi (Chalmers Institute of Technology, Sweden).
An introduction to Nowomics and how it helps biologists track new data and papers relevant to their research. With some background on how the site go started.
There are many examples of evidence-informed decision making (EIDM) among public health professionals and organizations in Canada. However, there are limited mechanisms in place to facilitate the sharing of these stories within the public health community. The National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools (NCCMT) seeks to address this gap with an interactive, peer-led webinar series featuring a collection of EIDM success stories in public health.
These success stories will illustrate what EIDM in public health practice, programs and policy looks like across the country.
Join us to engage with public health practitioners across Canada as they share their success stories of using or implementing EIDM in the real world. Learn about the strategies and tools used by presenters to improve the use of evidence. Each webinar will feature two presentations. This series will feature authors from the NCCMT’s EIDM Casebook as well as other presenters.
Webinar 1
September 14, 2017 1—2:30 ET
The Power of Data and Advocacy: Changing School Jurisdiction Policies for HPV Immunization
Deborah McNeil and Richard Musto, Alberta Health Services
Faced with an apparent health inequity, this team advocated for change in policy that made the HPV vaccine available in the Catholic school jurisdiction. Learn more about how evidence was used to successfully influence change of a school board’s policy.
To Wiki and Beyond: A Portal for EIDM at Ottawa Public Health
Victoria Cole, Ottawa Public Health
Facilitating knowledge exchange of research evidence across a large organization can be a challenge! Learn more about how a program planning management officer at the Ottawa Public Health unit developed a centralized platform to simplify knowledge sharing and encourage evidence use across the unit.
Slides from the last live webcast that detailed the Online Bioinformatics Master's Degree and Bioinformatics Advanced Certificate programs offered at NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
CYVERSE: TRANSFORMING LIFE SCIENCE RESEARCH VIA CYBERINFRASTRUCTUREMatthew Vaughn
CyVerse is a cyberinfrastructure that aims to transform life science research through data-driven discovery. It provides data storage, analysis tools, computing resources, and training to help researchers manage and analyze large datasets. CyVerse also collaborates with other projects to build an ecosystem supporting open science. It has already supported over 500 publications and stores over 2 petabytes of user data, demonstrating its impact on the research community.
The Personal Networks of Novice Librarian ResearchersIRDL
This presentation reports the findings of an analysis of personal network data gathered from the novice librarian researcher participants of the summer workshop of the Institute for Research Design in Librarianship (IRDL), an institute designed to provide instruction in how to conduct a research project and establish a peer-network of like-minded library professionals to support each other throughout the research process. The first wave of data was gathered before the participants began IRDL, again at the completion of the workshop, at six months after completing the workshop, and will be gathered again at the one-year marker. The data gathered is about the people and the strength of the relationship in the personal research networks of each of the IRDL participants. During the presentation we will report on the observations of the research networks over time.
Highlighted in the presentation is the use of the freely available, open source, web-based software used to gather the personal network data, EgoWeb 2.0. We will describe the process of customizing the survey software to ask questions about the names of people these novice researchers go to get or give advice or help related to research, how often they interact (related to research or not), modes in which the interactions take place, and whether or not the people in the network know each other. We will report the statistical results that the software computes, about density and closeness and provides a customizable visualization of the personal network.
ChemSpider – disseminating data and enabling an abundance of chemistry platformsKen Karapetyan
ChemSpider is one of the chemistry community’s primary public compound databases. Containing tens of millions of chemical compounds and its associated data ChemSpider serves data to many tens of websites and software applications at this point. This presentation will provide an overview of the expanding reach of the ChemSpider platform and the nature of solutions that it helps to enable. We will also discuss some of the future directions for the project that are envisaged and how we intend to continue expanding the impact for the platform.
The document summarizes a presentation about improving student accessibility to chemistry laboratories through remote instrumentation. It discusses the BC-Integrated Laboratory Network initiative, which allows students to remotely access scientific instruments and course materials. As part of this initiative, Thompson Rivers University enables first-year chemistry students to remotely operate an atomic absorption spectrophotometer. The project also provides remote access to other instruments and additional outreach activities to benefit students. Best practices for remote laboratories emphasize clearly defined learning outcomes, interaction, active learning, and instructor presence.
Paul Mignone_Inside 3D Printing MelbourneMediabistro
This document discusses how researchers can take a more open and collaborative "hacker" approach to conducting research in the face of declining government funding. It promotes sharing resources through cloud-based research apps and data services, as well as adopting open-source tools and techniques. The document highlights examples of research communities that have formed around 3D printing and software skills who have helped researchers improve designs, save costs and time through collaboration and open knowledge sharing. It envisions growing these communities to support more researchers and establish best practices for areas like CAD, imaging and simulation.
This document discusses the WHONET software which is used for the management and analysis of microbiology laboratory data with a focus on antimicrobial resistance. WHONET allows laboratories to enter patient and test result data, analyze trends in resistant pathogens, and generate reports to support treatment guidelines and containment of resistance on local, national and global levels. It has tools for outbreak detection and generating alerts. WHONET also enables data sharing through exports to public health surveillance systems to facilitate collaboration between different groups and regions.
Crowdsourcing à la sbv IMPROVER: the challenge of being your own clientCrowdsourcing Week
- The sbv IMPROVER project is a crowdsourcing platform led by PMI R&D to verify methods in industrial research through challenges in data science, biology and medicine. It aims to provide quality control of company research.
- Challenges follow five stages: preparation, launch, running the challenge, ranking submissions, and sharing results. Defining precise questions helps obtain focused solutions.
- Challenges engage crowds of young researchers interested in machine learning and data science. Advertising occurs through social media, conferences, and directly engaging previous participants.
- Benefits include scientific publications, learning, and driving innovation through crowdsourced verification of methods. Maintaining the platform requires significant communication efforts but eng
Similar to Status seminar 31.01.17, Aalborg University (20)
What is greenhouse gasses and how many gasses are there to affect the Earth.moosaasad1975
What are greenhouse gasses how they affect the earth and its environment what is the future of the environment and earth how the weather and the climate effects.
The binding of cosmological structures by massless topological defectsSérgio Sacani
Assuming spherical symmetry and weak field, it is shown that if one solves the Poisson equation or the Einstein field
equations sourced by a topological defect, i.e. a singularity of a very specific form, the result is a localized gravitational
field capable of driving flat rotation (i.e. Keplerian circular orbits at a constant speed for all radii) of test masses on a thin
spherical shell without any underlying mass. Moreover, a large-scale structure which exploits this solution by assembling
concentrically a number of such topological defects can establish a flat stellar or galactic rotation curve, and can also deflect
light in the same manner as an equipotential (isothermal) sphere. Thus, the need for dark matter or modified gravity theory is
mitigated, at least in part.
ANAMOLOUS SECONDARY GROWTH IN DICOT ROOTS.pptxRASHMI M G
Abnormal or anomalous secondary growth in plants. It defines secondary growth as an increase in plant girth due to vascular cambium or cork cambium. Anomalous secondary growth does not follow the normal pattern of a single vascular cambium producing xylem internally and phloem externally.
This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
The use of Nauplii and metanauplii artemia in aquaculture (brine shrimp).pptxMAGOTI ERNEST
Although Artemia has been known to man for centuries, its use as a food for the culture of larval organisms apparently began only in the 1930s, when several investigators found that it made an excellent food for newly hatched fish larvae (Litvinenko et al., 2023). As aquaculture developed in the 1960s and ‘70s, the use of Artemia also became more widespread, due both to its convenience and to its nutritional value for larval organisms (Arenas-Pardo et al., 2024). The fact that Artemia dormant cysts can be stored for long periods in cans, and then used as an off-the-shelf food requiring only 24 h of incubation makes them the most convenient, least labor-intensive, live food available for aquaculture (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021). The nutritional value of Artemia, especially for marine organisms, is not constant, but varies both geographically and temporally. During the last decade, however, both the causes of Artemia nutritional variability and methods to improve poorquality Artemia have been identified (Loufi et al., 2024).
Brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) are used in marine aquaculture worldwide. Annually, more than 2,000 metric tons of dry cysts are used for cultivation of fish, crustacean, and shellfish larva. Brine shrimp are important to aquaculture because newly hatched brine shrimp nauplii (larvae) provide a food source for many fish fry (Mozanzadeh et al., 2021). Culture and harvesting of brine shrimp eggs represents another aspect of the aquaculture industry. Nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia, commonly known as brine shrimp, play a crucial role in aquaculture due to their nutritional value and suitability as live feed for many aquatic species, particularly in larval stages (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021).
Or: Beyond linear.
Abstract: Equivariant neural networks are neural networks that incorporate symmetries. The nonlinear activation functions in these networks result in interesting nonlinear equivariant maps between simple representations, and motivate the key player of this talk: piecewise linear representation theory.
Disclaimer: No one is perfect, so please mind that there might be mistakes and typos.
dtubbenhauer@gmail.com
Corrected slides: dtubbenhauer.com/talks.html
Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intellige...University of Maribor
Slides from talk:
Aleš Zamuda: Remote Sensing and Computational, Evolutionary, Supercomputing, and Intelligent Systems.
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Inter-Society Networking Panel GRSS/MTT-S/CIS Panel Session: Promoting Connection and Cooperation
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
The ability to recreate computational results with minimal effort and actionable metrics provides a solid foundation for scientific research and software development. When people can replicate an analysis at the touch of a button using open-source software, open data, and methods to assess and compare proposals, it significantly eases verification of results, engagement with a diverse range of contributors, and progress. However, we have yet to fully achieve this; there are still many sociotechnical frictions.
Inspired by David Donoho's vision, this talk aims to revisit the three crucial pillars of frictionless reproducibility (data sharing, code sharing, and competitive challenges) with the perspective of deep software variability.
Our observation is that multiple layers — hardware, operating systems, third-party libraries, software versions, input data, compile-time options, and parameters — are subject to variability that exacerbates frictions but is also essential for achieving robust, generalizable results and fostering innovation. I will first review the literature, providing evidence of how the complex variability interactions across these layers affect qualitative and quantitative software properties, thereby complicating the reproduction and replication of scientific studies in various fields.
I will then present some software engineering and AI techniques that can support the strategic exploration of variability spaces. These include the use of abstractions and models (e.g., feature models), sampling strategies (e.g., uniform, random), cost-effective measurements (e.g., incremental build of software configurations), and dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., transfer learning, feature selection, software debloating).
I will finally argue that deep variability is both the problem and solution of frictionless reproducibility, calling the software science community to develop new methods and tools to manage variability and foster reproducibility in software systems.
Exposé invité Journées Nationales du GDR GPL 2024
BREEDING METHODS FOR DISEASE RESISTANCE.pptxRASHMI M G
Plant breeding for disease resistance is a strategy to reduce crop losses caused by disease. Plants have an innate immune system that allows them to recognize pathogens and provide resistance. However, breeding for long-lasting resistance often involves combining multiple resistance genes
ESR spectroscopy in liquid food and beverages.pptxPRIYANKA PATEL
With increasing population, people need to rely on packaged food stuffs. Packaging of food materials requires the preservation of food. There are various methods for the treatment of food to preserve them and irradiation treatment of food is one of them. It is the most common and the most harmless method for the food preservation as it does not alter the necessary micronutrients of food materials. Although irradiated food doesn’t cause any harm to the human health but still the quality assessment of food is required to provide consumers with necessary information about the food. ESR spectroscopy is the most sophisticated way to investigate the quality of the food and the free radicals induced during the processing of the food. ESR spin trapping technique is useful for the detection of highly unstable radicals in the food. The antioxidant capability of liquid food and beverages in mainly performed by spin trapping technique.
1. Development of the Next
Generation of Bioinformatic
Tools in Microbiology
Julie K. T. Pedersen
Supervisor: Mads Albertsen
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES
2017-01-31
Aalborg, Denmark
2. Agenda
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
• Background
• me
• data
• Aim
• Current status
• Network
• Timeseries
• What’s next?
3. Who am I?
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
• Back from maternity leave 1. sep
• Earlier projects: proteins and DNA
• Albertsen Lab (Part of EB group)
• Master: purely bioinformatic
• Blog: ”Life as a master student”
4. Who am I?
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
• Back from maternity leave 1. sep
• Earlier projects: proteins and DNA
• Albertsen Lab (Part of EB group)
• Master: purely bioinformatic
• Blog: ”Life as a master student”
8. They help clean our water
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
Wastewater
9. Some of them create problems
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
Wastewater
10. Identification – 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
Wastewater
11. Identification – 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
Wastewater
OTU: Operational Taxonomical Unit
[Karst et al., 2016]
12. Identification – 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
Wastewater
[Karst et al., 2016]
Name %
13. Repeat over time period
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
Wastewater
[Karst et al., 2016]
14. Time-series from Aalborg West
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
• 9 years, varying sampling frequency
• Problems with settling
• Filamentous bacteria
15. Time-series from AquaDjurs (Fornæs)
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
• Approx. 2 times a week for half a year
• Implementing new online control
16. Aim
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
Explore microbial correlation patterns in time-series data
• Aalborg West
• Are there bacteria that correlate with known ”bad”
bacteria, either positively or negatively?
• Can we identify early warning indicator organisms?
• AquaDjurs
• How does the bacterial “interactome” look?
• How large fraction of the bacteria interact?
Writing user-friendly, interactive functions in R
• How to make simplicity from complexity?
27. Looking at correlations
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
Step 1: Calculate a correlation matrix
Step 2: Filter and build a network graph
Step 3: Make it pretty and identify correlations
Step 4: Look at the data behind the correlation
28. Step 1: Calculate a correlation matrix
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
A
B
C
D
29. Step 1: Calculate a correlation matrix
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
30. Step 2: Build and filter a network graph
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
A
B C
D
0.82
0.87
0.37 0.96
0.12
0.43
31. CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
C
0.87
0.96
A
D
0.82
Step 2: Build and filter a network graph
32. Step 2: Build and filter a network graph
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
• Thresholds:
• OTU Count
• Correlation
33. Step 3: Make it pretty and identify correlations
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
”OTU_1”
”OTU_2”
Strong correlation between
”OTU_1” and ”OTU_2”?
34. Step 4: Look at the data behind the correlation
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
Yes, they are correlated..
r = 0.91
35. So, what’s next?
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline_2/
36. So, what’s next?
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
• Real data (YEESS!)
• Can I find the troublemakers?
• Do the troublemakers have followers?
• Can i see any indicators using time delay
• Other ways to calculate correlation
• Can I find tools Open Source (R)?
• Will they suggest different correlations?
• Which to choose and why?
37. Follow my progress
CENTER FOR MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES | AALBORG UNIVERSITY
Open source:
https://github.com/julieklessner
www.albertsenlab.org
Before leave i did mainly protein and DNA, now I am in the albertsen lab where i do …
Purely bioinformatic no lab only sit by my computer very different from snapping funny baby pics.
Not in lab data is my starting point where does the data come from?
Starting from the top … Bacteria are everywhere
Purely bioinformatic no lab only sit by my computer very different from snapping funny baby pics.
Not in lab data is my starting point where does the data come from?
Starting from the top … Bacteria are everywhere
Often we hear about them from disease, but they are also important for our health
Mælkesyregæring = fermentation?
Lactic acid bacteria
Also from food…
And as I guess you know: Biotechnology
De hjælper os med at rense vores spildevand. Her er de i et komplekst system. Biological treatment, activated sludgde, specialized qualities.
Nogle af dem skaber også problemer, men siden det er et komplekst system kan det være svært at vide hvem. Henvis til Peters forklaring af problemer
Nogle af dem skaber også problemer, men siden det er et komplekst system kan det være svært at vide hvem. Henvis til Peters forklaring af problemer
Fingerprinting used amplicon sequencing
Resultaterne af amplicon .. Many more than three
Repeat over time
Hvordan påvirkes the microbial community når man anvender de forskellige kontrol pakker.
Skal være mere direkte linket til vores cases. Har prøvet at gøre det mere “spørgsmålsagtigt” . Du må gerne sætte flere /andre på.
Husk at forklare early warning indikator bacteria
Evt: joke med at hvis Peter suitcase skal være nyttig skal vi kunne analysere data
Overgangsslide
Learning from basics
Interactive learning (kan måske forklares uden et helt slide)
To more complex
Using my skills to combine several lines of code into one.
Building functions
Detailed analysis
Users without in-depth know how
Interactivity
(Kun hvis der er tid)
Understreg at det er MIN funktion, gør det personligt
Ikke kalde det MiDAS subset, folk udenfor EB kender det ikke.
Overgangsslide
Overgangslide
Forklar at man holder de forskellige tidsserier om imod hinanden og udregner en korrelationskoeffiecient
Google “r correlation plot”
http://www.gettinggeneticsdone.com/2011/07/scatterplot-matrices-in-r.html
Understreg at det kun er et udsnit.
Forklar at hver cirkel er en OTU og linjen representere forholdet i mellem dem.
Forklar at hver cirkel er en OTU og linjen representere forholdet i mellem dem.
Må godt være forvirrende: det understreget pointen.
Forklar at hver cirkel er en bakterie og stregerne imellem representere forholdet imellem dem. + at der i princippet er en linje mellem dem alle, men de er filtreret fra fordi deres forholdet ikke er stærkt nok
Brug mere tid på at forklare hvad vi ser her. r: Pearsons korrelation koefficient
Indicators using time delay: correlates when time series is shifted?
Husk at nævne at bloggen først er startet her januar