Join the NFDI4Microbiota Conference 2025 in Cologne!

The NFDI4Microbiota consortium brings together researchers from across disciplines to improve microbiome research through better data practices, infrastructure, and community support. Our goal is to make microbiome data FAIR — Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable — and to empower scientists with tools and standards for high-quality, reproducible research.

Under the motto “From Lab to Publication – Bridging the Gap with Best Practices”, this year’s conference will take place from 30 September to 2 October 2025 at ZB MED – Information Centre for Life Sciences in Cologne.

What to expect:
- Hands-on workshops where you can learn to apply NFDI4Microbiota services

- The opportunity to test your skills on a small training dataset

- Inspiring keynote talks and interactive poster sessions

- Community exchange and best practices for microbiome research

Workshop Topics Summary

Track: From Bench to Browser – Microbiome Analysis Without Coding Skills

• Workshop 1: Introduction to Qiita for 16S amplicon data analysis
• Workshop 2: Cloud-based metagenomics workflows using CloWM

Track: From Lab Bench to Data Bench – Practical Research Data Management

• Workshop 3: Metadata standards from the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC)
• Workshop 4: Implementing Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) with eLabFTW
• Workshop 5: Basics of research data management and data management plans (DMPs)
• Workshop 6: Accessing virus metadata and sequences via VirJenDB

Track: From Pipelines to Portals – Next-Generation Tools for Microbiome Analysis

• Workshop 7: Extracting and resolving strain identifiers using StrainInfo
• Workshop 8: Federated FAIR data infrastructure with Aruna v3
• Workshop 9: Benchmarking metagenomics tools with the CAMI portal

👉 Workshop sign-up is available during conference registration.

We look forward to welcoming you to Cologne!