Conference: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course on Arabidopsis Molecular Genetics

为有关拟南芥分子遗传学的冷泉港夏季课程申请资金。这门课程是15年前由国家科学基金会资助的课程的延续。目前将拟南芥作为课程实验室部分的模式植物的重点反映了许多美国和国际实验室目前的研究兴趣，使学生能够利用丰富的基因组资源，并允许课程参与者在学习所教授的更一般的生物学或技术原理时专注于一个系统。该课程旨在满足植物科学界对这一领域日益增长的培训需求。其目的是(1)向已经参与植物研究的科学家传授最先进的分子技术，以便他们能够将这些技术应用于自己未来的研究；(2)向熟悉微生物、动物或植物系统的科学家传授以拟南芥为模式植物系统的植物生物学研究现状。本课程包括一系列严谨的讲座、动手实验和非正式讨论。演讲者将对他们的工作进行深入讨论，并概述他们的专长。这些发言者中的许多人将是拟南芥以外的植物系统的专家；其他人将是适用于所有生物系统的学科的非植物科学家专家。实验室课程提供了植物生物学现代技术的强化培训，并加强了在讲座中学到的课程。

Funding is requested for the Cold Spring Harbor summer course on Arabidopsis Molecular Genetics. This course is a continuation of the course that has been funded by the National Science Foundation since its inception 15 years ago. The current emphasis on Arabidopis as a model plant for the laboratory portion of the course reflects the current research interests of many US and international labortories, allows students to take advantage of a wealth of genomic resources, and allows the course participants to focus on one system as they learn the more general biological or technical principals being taught. The course is designed to fulfill a growing need within the plant science community for training in this area. The intention is (1) to teach state of the art molecular techniques to scientists already involved in plant research so that they can apply these technologies to their own future resarch and (2) to teach scientists familiar with microbial, animal or plant systems about current research in plant biology using Arabidopsis as the model plant sytem. The course consists of a rigorous lecture series a hands-on laboratory and informal discussions. Speakers will provide both an in-depth discussion of their work and an overview of their specialty. Many of these speakers will be experts in plant systems other than Arabidopsis thaliana; others will be non-plant scientists expert in disciplines that apply to all biological systems. The laboratory sessions provide an intensive training in modern techniques in plant biology and reinfored the lessons learned in lecture.