Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/P020054/1
Advanced 'omic analyses in the natural environment: a program of workshops provided by the NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility (NBAF)
Training Grant Award
- Lead Supervisor:
- Professor S Paterson, University of Liverpool, Institute of Integrative Biology
- Grant held at:
- University of Liverpool, Institute of Integrative Biology
- Science Area:
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Terrestrial
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Community Ecology
- Systematics & Taxonomy
- Evolution & populations
- Environmental Genomics
- Metabolomics / Metabonomics
- Abstract:
- Genomic and metabolomic approaches provide new insights into the genetic diversity of organisms within the natural environment and how they respond to natural and man-made changes. The skills required to analyse and interpret such data are highly prized in environmental sciences, biology and industrial research and involve the analysis of large, complex datasets using statistical and computational methods. There is an unmet demand for training across the UK science base in these methods because genomics and metabolomics are relatively new and because their application to environmental sciences raise specific challenges for which few groups have the specific expertise to address. This proposal is presented by staff from the NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility (NBAF), which is a NERC Facility dedicated to delivery of genomic and metabolomic data and analysis to the UK community. NBAF staff sit within four Universities (Birmingham, Edinburgh, Liverpool and Sheffield) with strong expertise and skills in genomics and metabolomics, especially as applied to non-model organisms and to samples from the natural environment. NBAF collaborates with every major UK university and NERC centre to deliver PhD, fellowship and grant-funded research across the biology remit of NERC science. This makes the training team uniquely placed to deliver the proposed activity. A programme of workshops are proposed, each of 2-3 days and catering for a total of 106 students (12-30 students per workshop) per year for two years. These will be based in the four Universities that comprise the nodes of NBAF. Delivery will be by blended learning of lectures and practical (laboratory or computer) exercises. Students will receive introductory training in the analysis of genomic and metabolomic datasets, including computer-based practical exercises involving case studies within the natural environment. They will also have the opportunity to view the facilities and to discuss their own projects and data with the informatics specialists in the NBAF nodes. The learning outcomes are for students to acquire the ability to: Recognise the range of environmental questions that 'omic methods can address. Design and conduct experiments and assays to answer these questions Apply statistical and bioinformatic methods to analyse 'omic data and test hypotheses.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/P020054/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Doctoral Training
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Advanced Training
This training grant award has a total value of £106,780
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Other Costs |
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| £106,780 |
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