The AMRI Roundup..All the latest news in aquatic microbiome research within and beyond AMRI
Welcome to the AMRI roundup, our weekly newsletter to keep you informed on the latest happenings in and beyond our network. If you have information you would like distributed, please email caroline.littlefield@ebc.uu.se
(1) KAW donates SEK 3.1 billion to data-driven life science (DDLS) in Sweden
The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) announced a 12-year funding initiative of SEK 3.1 billion, to support data-driven life science (DDLS) in Sweden. Acting as the main host of the initiative, SciLifeLab will now have the opportunity to realize several of the strategic objectives set up in the SciLifeLab 10-year Roadmap.
READ MORE: https://www.scilifelab.se/news/data-driven
Image: https://www.embl.de/tara/
(2) Seminar on Tara Oceans Consortium
November 18, between 14:00-15:00
https://uu-se.zoom.us/j/66712031609
Seminar Tom Delmont from the CNRS in France will give a seminar to our program about his recent work with the Tara Oceans consortium, where they have reconstructed 280 billion short metagenomic reads from large planktonic cellular size fractions (equivalent of 10,000 human genomes), and characterized/curated about 700 eukaryotic metagenome-assembled genomes ranging from 10 Mbp to 1.3 Gbp in size.
(3) Workshop on the Nagoya Protocol and the ABS-regulation
Please find below the invitation to the workshop on the Nagoya Protocol and the ABS-regulation. The workshop will be held in English.
Registration: https://epi-resurs.slu.se/SLU_SignUp/index.cfm?id=256
Link to the programme: https://internt.slu.se/nagoya
(3) New and Improved AMRI Seminars:
Thanks to your responses following our AMRI all-hands meeting, we want to continue this momentum, and focus on a few topics that came back from our survey. According to AMRI participants, we should continue:
(1) community-building
(2) creating opportunities for skills development for researchers at the beginning of their careers e.g. proposal writing workshops, CV tutorials, etc.
(3) organizing virtual seminars centered around the science topics identified in the post AMRI survey. These Phytoplankton-bacteria interactions, nutrient cycling, ecosystem and food web, pathogens and many more.
(4) addressing the challenges that both younger researchers and PIs face during COVID.
Stay tuned for more info on the dates and times of these AMRI seminars.
(4) OIKOS SWEDEN: Meeting, 2021 February 8-10 . Read more here:
https://nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/oikos-meeting-sweden-2021-19146/