This popular, lecture- and discussion-based course will provide up-to-date summaries for a range of classical and contemporary topics.
The course is ideally aimed at faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students who are currently working in a fly lab or those who have completed a PhD in another field and are moving into Drosophila for their postdoctoral studies. Participants may also be considered from other scientific backgrounds.
Course topics:
- Introduction to Drosophila
- Advanced genetic analysis
- Genomics
- Genetic screens and mosaic analysis
- Genome editing
- Recombineering and imaging
- RNAi and proteomics
- Gene regulation and development
- Immunology
- Neurogenetics
- Evolutionary genetics
- Ecological genetics
Bursary and application deadline: 15 April 2016
Category: Conferences | Science, Health and Medicine | Genetic Medicine
Speakers: Casey Bergman (University of Manchester, UK), R. Scott Hawley (Stowers Institute, USA), Daniel Barbash (Cornell University, USA), Eileen Furlong (European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany), Ruth Lehmann (New York University School of Medicine, USA), Teri Markow (University of California, San Diego, USA), Kate O'Connor-Giles (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Norbert Perrimon (Harvard Medical School, USA), Carlos Ribeiro (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Portugal), Todd Schlenke (Reed College, USA), Pavel Tomancak (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany)
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