Hands-on Workshop on Nanopore

Sequencing:
Adventures in Metagenomics and
Antimicrobial Resistance
25—29 November 2019
Indian Institute of Technology
Antibiotics increasingly fail to treat a growing
number of medical conditions due to anti-
microbial resistance. This trend is especially Delhi, India
acute in developing countries such as India,
where broad resistances are known to have
emerged. It is known that densely populated
cities can drive the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance through for example industrial produc-
tion sites, wastewater management practices and other cultural characteristics. Proximity to waterways or
associated water collections seems especially relevant.

This workshop is part of the BMBF – DBT Cooperative Science Program: Development of metagenomics
assisted surveillance tools for tracking antibiotic resistance in river bodies — A study in the Ganges river
valley (NANOLOG). The focus of the study is to investigate samples from river Ganges in India to infer the ef-
fect of human interference and to discern naturally occurring resistance from resistance created by humans.

The workshop will provide a platform for technology transfer and direct interaction with researchers in In-
dia. During the workshop, water and sediment samples collected before (pristine site) and after Uttarkashi
will be analyzed using Nanopore sequencing to assess the effect of human settlement on the quality of
water in terms of bacterial load.

Registration:
For registration, please send an email to
Registration evbc@uni-jena.de
deadline including the following information:
name, affiliation, email address, short CV, and wet-lab and/or
15 Nov 2019 bioinformatics experience.
Subject: [Registration] Hands-on Workshop on Nanopore Sequencing

Shaikh Z. Ahammad Christoph Lübbert Brigitte König Martin Hölzer Christian Brandt Akash Srivastava Celia Diezel Sebastian Krautwurst

More infos at:

http://tiny.cc/nanolog