Metagenomics in Agriculture and Food Production

Ryan C. Fink, adjunct assistant professor, Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA

Metagenomics: Methods & Challenges. Methods Reproducibility. A Complete Metagenomics Toolkit. Viral Metagenomics. Computational Advantages and Issues When Applying Metagenomics to Environmental Samples. Metagenomics, Agriculture and Food Production. Analyses of Microbiota and Metagenome in the Pre- and Post-harvest Environments. Correlating Dairy Calf Health and Development to their Gut Microbial Communities While on Differing Diets. Metagenomic Gene Discovery. Responses of Soil Microbial Communities to Multiple Global Change Factors. Metagenomic Exploration of Nitrogen Metabolism in Great Prairie Soils. Detecting Nitrous Oxide Reductase (NOSZ) Genes in Metagenomes: Method Development and Application to Midwestern Soils. Host Plant-driven Selection on Soil Microbial Communities. The Merlot Microbiome: a Multi-omic Approach. Diazotrophic Microbiome of an Indigenous Landrace of Corn. Impact of Systemic and Copper Fungicides on the Phyllosphere Bacterial Microflora of Tomatoes. 3rd Generation Sequencing and Metagenomics: What to Expect.