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Environmental Metagenomics: Toxicity & Risk Assessment Training | ARG/MRG Panels, Xenobiotics, Mixture Risk & Dashboards

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Environmental Metagenomics: Toxicity & Risk Assessment — Hands-on

Translate environmental metagenomes into defensible toxicity and risk insights. This module builds end-to-end workflows linking sequencing data with contaminant context, functional/xenobiotic pathways, AMR/metal-resistance markers, and quantitative risk screens. You will fuse chemistry/metadata with metagenomic features, compute effect-based and mixture indices, and produce stakeholder-ready maps, scorecards, and reports.

Environmental Metagenomics: Toxicity & Risk Assessment
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Session 1
Fee: Rs 8800
Sampling, CECs & Metadata for Risk
  • Use-cases & matrices
  • surface/ground/WWTP/industrial sediments/biofilms/sludge grab vs composite/time series
  • CECs & co-exposures
  • PFAS/PAHs/pesticides/pharma metals (Hg/Cd/As/Cu/Zn) nutrients & physico-chem
  • Metadata & standards
  • MIxS/ENVO fields QA/QC blanks & spikes chain-of-custody & SOPs
Session 2
Fee: Rs 11800
Shotgun Profiling, ARGs & Xenobiotic Pathways
  • Taxonomic & functional profiling
  • kraken2/centrifuge/MetaPhlAn HUMAnN/DRAM/eggNOG KEGG BRITE/MetaCyc (xenobiotics)
  • ARGs, MRGs & virulome
  • CARD/ResFinder/AMR++ metal resistance (merA/czc/cop) VFDB/virulence panels
  • QA, compositional stats & controls
  • decontam & replicates CLR/balances (PhILR) PERMANOVA caveats
Session 3
Fee: Rs 14800
Effect-Based & Mixture Risk Indices
  • Linking functions to effects
  • xenobiotic degradation scores stress/oxidative response ARG hazard indices
  • Mixture/relative risk screens
  • HI/EAR-style composites benchmarks/trigger levels uncertainty & sensitivity
  • Data fusion with chemistry/WS
  • LC-MS/GC-MS joins WBE/flow-normalization confounders & covariates
Session 4
Fee: Rs 18800
Geo Maps, Scorecards & Reproducible Reporting
  • Spatial outputs & dashboards
  • QGIS/leaflet risk layers hotspots & trends alerts & thresholds
  • Scorecards & decision briefs
  • ARG/MRG risk bands xenobiotic capacity scores confidence/limitations
  • Reporting & compliance
  • MIxS-compliant bundles ENA/SRA submissions SOPs & audit trails


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