Teaching

From this page you can find links to the materials of my courses. All course materials all licensed with a GPL-3.0 license.

MSc courses

Courses for the master’s program in Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology (MMB) at the University of Helsinki.

  • Bacterial genomics, MMB-114
    Introduction to bacterial genome analysis, covering sequencing technologies, annotation pipelines, and comparative genomics. Focus on practical applications in microbial research through bioinformatics projects.

  • Environmental microbiology, MMB-117
    Amplicon-based analysis course combining laboratory work and bioinformatics. Covers 16S/ITS amplicon sequencing from sample processing to data analysis, with foundational microbial ecology concepts.

  • Microbial metagenomics, MMB-901
    Advanced metagenomics course covering both read-based and assembly-based analytical approaches. Focus on computational methods for functional and taxonomic characterization of microbial communities from sequencing data.

PhD courses

Courses for PhD students on microbial bioinformatics.

Current courses

Past course