Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course of Arabidopsis Molecular Genetics

0235986关于拟南芥分子遗传学的冷泉港夏季课程要求使用GrodzickerFunding。这门课程是18年前由国家科学基金会资助的课程的延续。目前强调将拟南芥作为本课程实验室部分的模式植物，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他们自己的未来研究；(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的现状。本课程包括严谨的系列讲座、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。实验室课程提供了现代植物生物学技术的强化培训，并强化了在课堂上学到的知识。这门课程的更广泛的影响是培训来自世界各地的植物研究人员掌握该领域的最新信息和技术。学生的选择是为了让那些可能在课程中最广泛地传播信息的人，即教授和博士后受到青睐。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，去年的几名学生来自不同的国家。这门课程的许多学生继续领导他们自己的实验室，该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.