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CALL FOR STUDENTS
EMBO PRACTICAL COURSE.............................GULBENKIAN BIOLOGY COURSE
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PLANT DEVELOPMENT: The Molecular and Cellular Basis
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22 March-07 April 2004
Instituto Gulbenkian Ciencia, Oeiras, Portugal,
www.igc.gulbenkian.pt/courses/plant_embo
Scope and Aims:
With the description of several flowering plant genomes, molecular and genetic tools are becoming available for integrative organism-centred approaches. The time has come for putting the organism together again and this will requires close monitoring of in vivo properties and follow-up of the extended processes that each gene or group of genes controls. Developmental biology has emerged as a most challenging area in which this is occurring, as it commands a full understanding of the spatial and temporal integration of processes that allow for growth, differentiation and morphogenesis. On the other hand, higher plants represent one of the major evolutionary trends and their genetic and experimental value lift them, specially in recent years, to a competitive and challenging field from where major fundamental discoveries have occurred.
This course aims to provide the basis for this post-genomic work, with a solid theoretical background and practical training on the most utilised and versatile molecular tools and approaches, but creating the perception of need for interdisciplinary interfaces with cutting-edge biophysical and imaging techniques, and a strong sense of integrative biology. The faculty includes some of the world-leading scientists on plant development. The course organisation will allow for flexibility, free-discussion and aim at fostering productive interactions among all participants.
****AFTER 8 YEARS OF YEARLY ORGANIZATION, THIS WILL BE THE LAST COURSE OF THIS SERIES****
Faculty will be:
Jose A. Feijo. Gulbenkian Institute for Science/Univ. Lisboa ([log in to unmask])
Margarida Oliveira, IBET/Univ. Lisboa
(Organisers)
Jim Haseloff, Cambridge Univ., UK
Keith Roberts- John Innes RC, UK
Sheila McCormick- U.California, Berkeley, USA
Ueli Grossniklaus- ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
William Lucas, Univ. California, Davis, USA
John Cairney, IPST, Atlanta, USA
Michel Caboche, INRA, Versailles, France
Natasha Raikhel, UC Riverside, USA
Julian Schroeder, UCSD, USA
Alice Cheung, U.Massachussets, Amherst, USA
Detlef Wegeil, Max-Planck Inst., Tuebingen, Germany
Caroline Dean, John Innes RC, Norwich, UK
Ralph Quatrano, Washington Univ., MI, USA
Ben Scheres, Utrecht Univ., Netherlands
Pieter Ouwerkerk, Univ Leiden, Netherlands
Colin Brownlee, MBL, Plymouth, UK
Course format:
~60-70 hours of theoretical sessions (lectures, seminars and discussions);
~60-90 hours of laboratory work, divided in 3 packs: "getting started", advanced techniques, and free-runing projects. Globally advanced training will be offered in DNA extraction and characterisation, plant transformation methods, functional analysis of expression, gene cloning (including comparison of available methods), cDNA library screening, database screening and primer design; Arabidopsis mutant screening, mutagenesis and gene tagging; visual probe design and imaging of GFP and GFP-related proteins; electrophysiology.
The course includes a workshop on imaging, with hands-on practice on ratiometric widefield, confocal and multi-photon microscopies, image analysis (with special suport from Universal Imaging Corporation and also Nikon, Zeiss, Leica and Perkin-Elmer).
A group of 16 advanced graduate students and young post-docs will be competitively selected. Due to the desired interdisciplinary philosophy, previous training or education in plant biology in not mandatory, and we will welcome other diverse areas. There are no inscription fees.
Oeiras is a small community with an active science campus, comprising three leading research institutes, located outside Lisboa (20 mins by sub-urban train, and 40 mins from the airport), with several beaches and other leisure/culture places of interest within walking distance.
Applicants should send a short CV and letter of motivation to:
(1) e.mail:
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(2) Fax:
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia
Plant Development /2004 (a/o Greta Martins)
+351.214407970
(3) Snail mail:
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia
Plant Development /2004 (a/o Greta Martins)
PT-2780-156 Oeiras
Portugal
Deadline for application is the 27th February. Candidates will be selected and contacted before by the end of February.
URL's:
http://igc.gulbenkian.pt/courses/plant_embo
http://www.embo.org/meetings/forthcoming_table.html#practical
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Jose' A. Feijo', Prof.
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Inst.Gulbenkian Ciencia, PT-2780-156 Oeiras, PORTUGAL
tel. +351.21.440.79.41, fax +351.21.440.79.70
and
Dep. Biologia Vegetal, Fac.Ciencias, Universidade Lisboa
PT-1749-016 Lisboa, PORTUGAL
tel. +351.21.750.00.69, fax +351.21.750.00.48
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e.mail: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://193.126.26.2/Groups/plant_development.html
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