Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course of Arabidopsis Molecular Genetics

申请资助冷泉港拟南芥分子遗传学暑期课程。本课程是自18年前成立以来一直由美国国家科学基金会资助的课程的延续。目前强调拟南芥作为模式植物的实验室部分的课程反映了许多美国和国际实验室的当前研究兴趣，让学生利用丰富的基因组资源，并允许课程参与者专注于一个系统，因为他们学习更一般的生物学或技术原理正在教。 该课程旨在满足植物科学界对这一领域培训日益增长的需求。 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他们自己的未来研究，以及（2）向熟悉微生物、动物或植物系统的科学家传授使用拟南芥作为模式植物系统的植物生物学的当前研究。该课程包括严格的系列讲座，动手实验室和非正式讨论。 发言者将提供他们的工作的深入讨论和他们的专业概述。 这些演讲者中的许多人将是拟南芥以外的植物系统专家;其他人将是适用于所有生物系统的学科的非植物科学家。 实验室课程提供了植物生物学现代技术的强化培训，并加强了讲座中学到的经验教训。课程的更广泛的影响是来自世界各地的植物研究人员在该领域的最新信息和技术的培训。 学生的选择，使那些谁可能会传播在课程中获得的信息最广泛，即教授和博士后的青睐。 在典型的年份，学生是男女学生的平等组合，并努力实现种族多样性，去年有几名学生来自不同的国家。 本课程的许多学生继续领导自己的实验室，本课程为这些新的实验室负责人提供了知识基础。

0235986GrodzickerFunding 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 18 years ago. The current emphasis on Arabidopsis as a model plant for the laboratory portion of the course reflects the current research interests of many US and international laboratories, 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 research and (2) to teach scientists familiar with microbial, animal or plant systems about current research in plant biology using Arabidopsis as the model plant system. 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 reinforce the lessons learned in lecture.The broader impact of the course is the training of plant researchers from throughout the world in the most recent information and techniques of the field. The students are chosen such that those who will likely disseminate information acquired in the course most broadly, i.e. professors and postdocs are favored. In typical years the students are an equal mix of male and female students, and efforts are made to achieve an ethnic diversity as well, with several students from last year coming from different countries. Many of the students of the course go on to lead their own laboratories and the course provides a foundation of knowledge for these new lab heads.