Educational materials


Field trip and overview of sampling campaign in the Peruvian Amazonia

Field trip to Iquitos, Peru (May 2024) – This video covers the activities by researchers from the University of Tartu, Estonia, the University of Helsinki, Finland, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Soil sampling for DNA-based analyses

In this video, PhD student from the University of Tartu, Laura Kuusemets, is explaining the protocols of soil sampling for DNA-based analyses

Soil sampling for RNA-based analyses

In this video, junior researcher from the University of Tartu, Fahad Ali Kazmi, explains the protocol for taking soil and plant samples for RNA-based analyses

Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) – quantification of functional genes

In this video, Environmental Microbiology Laboratory specialist Kärt Kanger explains the qPCR protocol at the University of Tartu’s Environmental Microbiology Laboratory. The video is made for the LiWeFoR project.

Extraction of RNA and downstream use


Bioinformatics analyses