My colleague Eike Matthias Wacker has developed our 🦠 metagenome processing pipeline which is now published in Nature Communciations: www.nature.com/articles/s41... It's a modular workflow implemented in nextflow that can combine local and public data from SRA Github: github.com/ikmb/TOFU-MA....

🌿 Tag der offenen Tür im Botanischen Garten Kiel: Am Sonntag, 7. Juni 2026, gibt's von 9 bis 16 Uhr u.a. Führungen, einen Pflanzenbasar, Bastel- und Mitmachangebote für Kinder und Eltern sowie die Ausstellung „Wilde Vielfalt im Garten” des Verbands Botanischer Gärten. 📷: Susanne Petersen, Uni Kiel

In October we had the pleasure of hosting Anna Esteve Codina from CNAG. She introduced us to the added value of using RNA-seq, long-read genome and methylomes for rare diasease diagnosis. If you missed his talk then, you now have the chance to catch up on our Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/@NGS-CN

👏 Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Dr. Hesham ElAbd und Prof. Dr. Paul Saftig! Die Medizinische Fakultät der #UniKiel und die Bruhn-Stiftung zur Förderung der medizinischen Forschung haben am Dienstag die beiden höchstdotierten Preise der Fakultät vergeben. #BruhnPreis #HenselPreis

As the year draws to a close, join our final webinar on December 11th to explore the European Reference Genome Atlas with Camila Mazzoni. When? 11.12.2025 at 11 CET Where? Zoom, register here: rwth.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

Missed the Spatial Transcriptomics Summer School? No worries! We've uploaded more talks. Today, Nicolas Casadei, head of the NGS Core facility at the University of Tübingen, dives into the unique insights of spatial transcriptomics. Watch now and learn! www.youtube.com/@NGS-CN

In our webinar in August, Dr. Francy Johanna Pérez LLanos presented the genomic investigation of a TB outbreak within an indigenous community in the Colombian Amazon. The talk is now available on: www.youtube.com/@NGS-CN

Come and join our next webinar in November! This time Kenneth Peuker from the Universität Greifswald will talk about host factors in the pathogenesis of colorectal cancer metastasis. When? 27.11.2025 at 11 CET Where? Zoom, register here: rwth.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

In July Anna-Lena Börsch from the Universitätsklinikum Münster introduced us to Polyneuropathies and how she is using a multi-omics approach in understanding them. If you missed his talk then, you now have the chance to catch up and listen to this talk on our Youtube Channel! www.youtube.com/@NGS-CN

🧬 🐭 Hosted "Türen auf mit der Maus" buff.ly/DqeVhkK, where 60+ kids extracted banana DNA and explored densities. Huge thanks to our team for their support. Refreshments by EOTH e.V. eoth.info Join us next year!

We are welcoming applications for a full professorship on Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology at Kiel Univerdity, Northern Germany, with fantastic facilities and infrastructure! @uni-kiel.de @crc1182.bsky.social @transevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...

If you missed the Summer School on Spatial Transcriptomics - don't worry! We just uploaded another talk to Youtube! Today’s lecturer, Shobhit Agrawal, is introducing us to his work on a human cell atlas and the integration of data from several centers and studies. www.youtube.com/@NGS-CN

If you missed the Summer School on Spatial Transcriptomics - don't worry! We now uploaded another of the talks - this is your chance to catch up and learn from our experts! Today’s lecturer, Katrin Sameith-Lauber, is introducing us to the analysis of scRNA sequencing data. www.youtube.com/@NGS-CN

Explain Podcast: Listen to the special episode about immunology! Tune in now: - Choose the platform you like: ngs-kn.de/explain-podc... - Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3ubT...

Join our August webinar with Johanna Perez Llanos on resolving a nearly clonal TB outbreak in a remote indigenous community in the Colombian Amazon. Learn with us on 21 August, Thursday at 11:00 CEST. Register here: rwth.zoom-x.de/meeting/regi...

🎓 Huge congratulations to Dr. Aya Madhy for successfully defending her PhD! A major milestone achieved, we couldn’t be prouder! 🥹🎉 Check out some of her work: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... academic.oup.com/ecco-jcc/art... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ‪@uni-kiel.de‬ #PhDDefense #PhD

Here comes another talk of our Summer School on Spatial Transcriptomics. This is your chance to learn from our experts! Andreas Petzold, a bioinformatician at the DcGC, is giving us an introduction into data analysis for specifically Single Cell data. www.youtube.com/@NGS-CN/

Neue GEOMAR-Studie zeigt: Überfischung dezimiert nicht nur Bestände, sie greift auch in das Erbgut von Fischen ein. So sind Dorsche in der zentralen Ostsee heute nicht nur seltener, sondern auch deutlich kleiner als früher. 🔗 www.geomar.de/news/article... 📸 Jesper Bay/GEOMAR

We are happy to announce that the first lecture of the NGS-CN Summer School 2025 is now available on YouTube! Here, Maximilian Krause from the DcGC introduces sequencing technologies! And...subscribe to our NGS-CN YouTube Channel to stay tuned for the upcoming content! www.youtube.com/@NGS-CN

Bei #kielerunilive auf der #KielerWoche stellen sie ihre Arbeiten im gemeinsamen Zelt der beiden #Exzellenzcluster ROOTS und #PMI vor - und zeigen Euch DNA-Stränge, die man mit bloßem Auge sehen kann. Kommt vorbei! Das ganze Programm: www.precisionmedicine.de/de/detailans... #kiwo25 #kiel #WissKomm

Die Arbeitsgruppen von Almut Nebel und Ben Krause-Kyora vom #IKMB der @uni-kiel.de erforschen mit genetischen Analysen Alterungsprozesse und das Verhältnis von Mensch und Umwelt in der Vergangenheit, wie zum Beispiel hier: www.uni-kiel.de/de/cluster-r... (1/2)

🌍Soon, more than 1% of the population in western countries will be affected by #InflammatoryBowelDisease. For #WorldIBDDay, the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology (IKMB) at Kiel University and University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein presents the #IBD-Song: https://youtu.be/JD6J6E9MT14#InflammatoryBowelDisease#WorldIBDDay#IBD©️Klahn

Last year, we featured zoologist Miquel Vila-Farré in our NGS Webinar Series, where he discussed planarian regeneration from the Order Tricladida. Using the MPI's wild planarian collection, Miquel investigates their regenerative abilities. If you missed it, watch it here: www.youtube.com/@NGS-CN/

TOMORROW: Come along to our next webinar on 03.04. at 11:00 CET! We are joined by Maryia Karpiyevich, PhD from sptlabtech.bsky.social and researchers from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, who will tell us about Efficient Long-Read Genome Library Prep. Register here: rwth.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Next episode: Explain Podcast! Spinnin' bases on wafers to do...mostly NATURAL SBS...we explore Ultima Genomics technology | non-coding RNA | bioinformatics tools like Snakemake, Cromwell, and Nextflow. Join the conversation on your favorite platform: buff.ly/IulW2AA | Spotify buff.ly/QXFhEko

NGS Webinar TOMORROW 13.03 at 11:00 CET | Register: buff.ly/iIcQ9oX Dr Joana P. Bernardes from @ccgakiel.bsky.social and @ngscn-de.bsky.social :: Nice talk about precision medicine: cell-centric approaches transforming chronic inflammatory disease treatments. Join us! rwth.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Die DFG bietet auch 2025 Möglichkeiten, #Fördermittel für Projekte mit hohen #Sequenzierkosten zusammen mit akademischen Sequenzier-Einrichtungen zu beantragen. Informationen hierzu gab es bereits Anfang letzten Jahres. Hier noch einmal die Info für die Wissenschaft: www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

❗The 5th NGS-CN Summer School | May 2025 ❗ ✨ Focus: Spatial Transcriptomics. Join us! Find details & registration at ngs-cn.de/summerschool2025 :: Hybrid with an option to be on-site in Dresden with us :) :: Hands-on (incl.hotel, food, travel grants) in Dresden at the @dcgenomecenter.bsky.social