14-20 September 2009, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Travel: Please note, EMBO covers course participation, accommodation and meals. Individual participants must cover travel costs.
The exposure to the first class, international scientific environment provided by the course teachers at the EMBL and the diversity of the teachers and participants, both in terms of scientific interest and nationality, help shape the students future perspectives.
Lectures in cell biology, developmental biology, mechanisms in immunity and disease and gene regulation. Lectures are 60 min with 15 min for discussion.
Tutorials:
1. Victor Sourjik: tutorial on Fluorescent Imaging, describing different techniques, the questions that can be addressed using these techniques and the limitations of these techniques.
2. Carsten Janke: tutorial on Protein Modifications, describing different types of modifications, their roles and the proteins that undergo and undertake the modifications, possibly detection methods and implications in disease.
3. Javier Martinez: tutorial on Small RNAs, describing the different roles of small RNAs, their implications in disease and how we can make use of them to understand cellular processes.
4. Philippe Pasero: tutorial on Massive Parallel Sequencing - New generations of high-throughput sequencing platforms are now able to generate billions of bases of high-quality DNA sequence per run in a cost-effective manner. These new technologies enable a wide range of genetic analysis applications, including whole-genome sequencing, analysis of copy number alterations, transcriptome profiling and analysis of regulatory mechanisms (ChIP-seq), which will be presented in this tutorial.
A student grant writing exercise. Students were assigned topics (i.e. pertinent biological questions) for which they prepared a grant proposal during the course presented orally within 30 minutes on the last day of the course.
A student paper reviewing exercise. Students review a manuscript submitted to a scientific journal. They critically read the manuscript, discuss it in groups of six, write a review on it and then discuss it with a Young Investigator and an EMBO Journal/reports editor.
A journal club-like presentation of student’s research project and poster sessions.
A morning session of writing/talking science.
Dinner and an evening out in Heidelberg.
