PPEM 440, Environmental Microbiomes: Concepts and Analysis Tools will be a new class offered fall 2018 and will be instructed by Dr. Terry Bell, a new Biogeochemistry Faculty member in the PPEM department. Here is a brief description of the course outcomes: this course is intended for students with very little background in programming or bioinformatics, but with a strong understanding of microbiology, molecular biology, and/or ecology. At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Interpret microbiome terminology and figures.
2. Understand and present a summary of a microbiome-based journal article.
3. Analyze microbiome-based high-throughput sequencing data using freely available software.
4. Apply microbiome analysis tools to unknown data.
5. Express their interpretation of microbiome data in oral, written, and graphical contexts.