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International Courses and Workshops
These courses, supported and organized through HHMI's International Program, provide scientists from around the world with advanced training in their fields and an opportunity to network with others in the international scientific community. The number and types of courses vary from year to year.
Advanced Laboratory Training Course:
Epigenetic Regulation and Plant Development
December 1–9, 2008
National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (Langebio), Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav, Campus Guanjuato)
Irapuato, Mexico
Organizers:
- Jean-Philippe Vielle-Calzada, Langebio, Cinvestav Irapuato, Mexico
- Daniel Grimanelli, IRD, Montpellier, France
- Javier Palatnik, IBR Rosario, Argentina
This course will provide an intensive theoretical and practical overview of epigenetic regulation and its emerging importance for the understanding of plant development. It will emphasize recent results from model species, providing a contemporary update in current methods used to study the structure, function, and evolution of the plant epigenome. The following topics will be included: chromatin structure and its characterization, small regulatory RNAs and their function, methylation and histone dynamics, the role of telomeres and telomerases, paramutation, parent-of-origin effects and early seed development, and function and evolution of transposable elements.
International keynote speakers and local investigators with expertise in plant molecular genetics will give lectures and guide journal club discussions. Practical instruction will take place within the new teaching laboratory facilities of Langebio. All activities will be conducted in English.
The course is aimed at students at the Ph.D. and postdoctoral levels and at beginning investigators with an immediate need to apply the methods taught in the course to their own research. Up to 25 applicants will be selected to attend. Candidates from Latin American countries are particularly encouraged to apply. Accommodation and meals will be provided for all students. There is no registration fee. All candidates must be fluent in English and able to cover their own roundtrip travel expenses to Guanajuato International Airport in Mexico.
Course faculty:
- Rich Jorgensen (iPlant Collaborative, University of Arizona, USA)
- Rob Martienssen (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA)
- Jerzy Paszkowski (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
- Damon Lisch (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
- Scott Poethig (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Sarah Hake (Plant Gene Expression Center, USA)
- Jay Hollick (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
- Dorothy Shippen (Texas A&M University, USA)
- Robert Fischer (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
An online system for student applications will be available in July, 2008.
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