Training Opportunities
CRESCENDO core microbiome courses for all recruited ESRs/PhDs are detailed below:.
Course | Year | Learning outcome |
|---|---|---|
Microbial ecology and Microbiome Science | 1 | Importance of the microbiome in complex environments; different approaches for the study of the microbiome. |
‘Omic’ Sciences in Microbiome | 1 | ‘Omics’ approaches (metagenomics, genomics, proteomics) for microbiome studies) |
Bioinformatics | 1 | State of the art bioinformatics tools for the analysis of microbiome data |
Microbiome Data Science and Biostatistics | 2 | Data analysis techniques and statistics for multi-omics data integration and analysis |
Microbial Metabolomics | 2 | Microbial metabolites production in different environments; methodologies for metabolomics studies |
Some of the complimentary and transferable skills courses available are listed below:
Courses/other activities | Year | Learning outcome | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
Ethics and Microbiome | 1 | Ethics in research; Ethical issues to be considered in microbiome-related studies; How to prepare an application for the approval by the ethics committee. | Module |
Outreach and the public face of science | 1 | Science communication for the lay public, press releases, the importance of clear messages and the use of social media to help science impact society. | Module |
Diet-microbiome-health axis | 1 | How to use diet to modulate the microbiome targeting human and animal health. | Seminar |
Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) | 1 | How to implement the ‘Science with and for Society’ objective; public engagement in research; how to facilitate the access to scientific results; how to promote the involvement of all societal actors; ethics in research. | Module |
Scientific communication | 2 | How to write a scientific paper. How to present scientific results at conferences | Module |
CV writing and job interview | 2 | How to write a CV and a presentation letter; Suggestions to get prepared at a job interview. | Module |
Open Science | 2 | How store and share research data with the scientific community; Appropriate ways to make data available and usable | Module |
Clinical trials in nutrition and medicine | 2 | How to design clinical trials to target modification of the microbiome. | Seminar |
Start-up, entrepreneurship and business creation | 3 | Meeting with international start-up founders, entrepreneurs and investors – fundamentals of business creation in the microbiome field. | Workshop |
Research project implementation/management | 3 | How to prepare a research project; how to deal with project management and reporting. | Module |
Patents and Intellectual Property management | 3 | How to develop an International patent application. | Module |