MENA Microbiome
From Biomarkers Discovery
to Microbiota-based Therapeutics

Pre-Event Workshop
Date: September 26th
Venue: Sidra Medicine

Overview /Pre-Event Workshop

All Sessions September 26th

This on-site hands-on workshop offers a unique opportunity to practice how to process biological samples for 16S rRNA gene sequencing and learn the essential bioinformatics tools for microbiome downstream analysis.

This is a non-CME accredited workshop. Only 25 seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Location: Sidra Medicine-Out Patient Clinics, 6^th floor, room C6-301 and 5^th floor, laboratory
Time	Sessions and Facilitators	Topics
8:00 – 8:30 am	Registration and Welcome (Room C6-301) MENA Microbiome Conference Chairs: Dr. Souhaila Al Khodor, Sidra Medicine Dr. Annalisa Terranegra, Sidra Medicine	Check-in and participant registration Welcome remarks and overview of the workshop Introduction to facilitators and agenda
8:30 – 9:00 am	Introduction (Room C6-301) Dr. Selvasankar Murugesan, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine Dr. Arun Lakshmanan, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine	Overview of key concepts and objectives Presentation by the lead facilitator
9:00 – 10:30 am	Hands-On – Part I (Room C5-73100) Dr. Akbar Pathan, Senior FAS Manager, MGI Mr. Sunil Bose, Field Application Support, MGI Dr. Selvasankar Murugesan, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine Dr. Arun Lakshmanan, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine Dr. Manoj Kumar, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine	Sample QC Library Preparation
10:30 – 10:45 am	Coffee Break – Sponsored by MGI
10:45 – 1:00 pm	Hands-On – Part II (Room C5-73100) Dr. Akbar Pathan, Senior FAS Manager, MGI Mr. Sunil Bose, Field Application Support, MGI Dr. Selvasankar Murugesan, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine Dr. Arun Lakshmanan, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine Dr. Manoj Kumar, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine	Loading Library Sequencing Demo
1:00 -2:00 pm	Lunch Break – Sponsored by MGI (Room C6-301)
2:00 – 3:30 pm	Bioinformatics Analysis – Part I (Room C6-301) Dr. Mohamed Nadhir Djekidel, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine Miss Hissa Al Fakhri, Research Specialist, Sidra Medicine Dr. Selvasankar Murugesan, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine Dr. Arun Lakshmanan, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine	Introduction to 16S sequencing bioinformatics Hands-on QIIME2 analysis using Google Colab
3:30 – 3:45 pm	Coffee Break – Sponsored by MGI
3:45 – 5:00 pm	Bioinformatics Analysis – Part II (Room C6-301) Dr. Mohamed Nadhir Djekidel, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine Miss Hissa Al Fakhri, Research Specialist, Sidra Medicine Dr. Selvasankar Murugesan, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine Dr. Arun Lakshmanan, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine	Hands-on downstream analysis in R using Google Colab
5:00 – 5:30 pm	Closing Remarks and Certification (Room C6-301) Dr. Mohamed Nadhir Djekidel, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine Miss Hissa Al Fakhri, Research Specialist, Sidra Medicine Dr. Selvasankar Murugesan, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine Dr. Arun Lakshmanan, Staff Scientist, Sidra Medicine	Final Quiz Distribution of certificates of participation Networking opportunity