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[ARCHIVE] 11.-12. Nov 2021 - Muse-OMICS Workshop

A methods focused workshop about best lab practices, legendary DNA extraction adversities, innovative methodological tools and more. Via Zoom.

Thursday, 11 November

DNA Extraction

09:15 Welcome and program overview

09:30 DNA extraction from herbarium material

  • Dirk Albach: “Insights from own experience with Veronica and the literature”

  • Salvatore Tomasello: “aDNA extraction methods for herbarium specimens – When it is worth the effort”

  • Franziska Patzold: “Museum specimens DNA extraction using an oligo clean-up kit (including hands-on video)”

11:30 Discussion

12:00 Lunch break

Library Preparation

13: 00 Petra Korlevic: “Adapting a double-stranded Illumina library preparation kit for sequencing of pinned historic Diptera specimen”

14:00 George Xenikoudakis: “HOW and WHY of different DNA extraction and library building approaches”

15:00 Discussion

Friday, 12 November

Sequencing Approaches (plants)

09:15 Greeting and program overview

09:30 Freek Bakker: “Herbarium genomics: getting plant archival DNA to work”

10:30 Alexandre Zuntini: “Target sequence capture on Museomics”

11:30 Discussion

12:00 Lunch break

Sequencing Approaches (animals)

14:00 Marcela Sandoval Velasco: “Capture strategies for museomics”

15:00 Carl Hutter: “FrogCap: A modular sequence capture approach for Anurans that addresses the challenge of capturing markers across broad phylogenetic scales”

16:00 Discussion and conclusion

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AFTERNOTE

Check out our lovely international team of Muse-OMIC-ists below and find more relevant workshops in the Taxon-OMICS YouTube.