Training for Bioinformatics Students: IBG-4 Supports NGS-CN Summer School

From 13th to 15th September 2021, IBG-4 staff helped teaching graduate students from different European universities at the summer school “Understanding Next Generation Sequencing from molecule to output data”. This summer school was organized by the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN) and hosted by the West German Genome Center (WGGC). It was held at Schloss Mickeln, which is the guesthouse of HHU Düsseldorf University. Over the course of three days ten students learned about Next Generation Sequencing from molecule to output data, including an Oxford Nanopore live sequencing demonstration given by Max Schmidt and a workshop in analysing complex long read metagenomic sequencing data by Prof. Björn Usadel.

The group of Prof. Usadel and WGGC not only have a successful ongoing cooperation in various de novo genome sequencing projects but also share a common interest in teaching young and aspiring scientists in bioinformatic methods.

Link to Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network NGS-CN