EMBO European Molecular Biology Organization

YIP PhD Course 2007, 23-30 September 2007, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany 

The EMBO Young Investigator PhD course is organized by the Young Investigators for their PhD students. The objective of the course is to provide students with a broad overview in a number of different areas of the biological sciences, paired with some practical aspects that will be taught in the form of tutorials. Additionally each student will be asked to present their research project in a journal club like format and with a poster. A grant proposal will be prepared during the course by the students. The proposals will be presented and discussed at the end of the course in order to prepare students to write their own competitive proposals in the future. As a new exercise students also will receive training in reviewing a scientific paper, guided by the teaching Young Investigators and EMBO Journal/reports editors.

The exposure to the first class, international scientific environment provided by the course teachers and the EMBL and the diversity of the teachers and participants, both in terms of scientific interest and nationality, are expected to be inspiring for motivation and future perspectives of the students.

Course presentations: 

• Giving Presentations (pdf), Martin Reddington, Human Frontier Science Program
  
• DNA Manipulation with recombination technology (pdf), Ralf H. Adams
• Protein Misfolding in Neurodegenerative Diseases (pdf), Anne Bertolotti
• Tutorial, Analysis of Gene Function (pdf), Michael Boutros
• Exploring Protein Modular Architecture (pdf), Aidan Budd
• Protein structure prediction (pdf), Janusz M. Bujnicki
• Intracellular Membrane Traffic (pdf), Volker Haucke
• Cancer (pdf), Johanna Ivaska
• Protein-protein interactions (pdf), Daniel Otzen
• Facets of immunity to infection (pdf), Annette Oxenius
• Introduction to systems biology (pdf), Victor Sourjik
• The role of RNA: non-coding RNA and mechanisms of gene regulation (pdf), Anton Wutz
• Epigenetics (pdf), Irina Stancheva

Photos from the course 

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