CSHL Course on Yeast Genetics & Genomics

智力优势：冷泉港实验室为期三周的酵母遗传学和基因组学暑期课程为学生在分子遗传学的现代科学研究做好准备。 高度密集的实验室课程工作旨在使每个学生精通酵母遗传学的基础知识，然后为更复杂的分子技术（如基因组编辑和下一代测序）建立概念支柱。 该课程的实验部分由每日理论讲座补充，这些讲座由在该系统中经过验证的专业知识的讲师和利用酵母系统的着名研究人员的世界级研讨会系列组成。虽然该课程的总体组织是为了保持每年相同，内容的变化被引入酵母生物学和基因组方法的进步;作为教师更换新的专业知识被添加到课程和最新的技术和方法被纳入课程的新教师。课程参与者是从高素质的申请者中挑选出来的，从早期的职业科学家到高级研究人员，来自不同的研究背景，包括生物学，化学，工程学，物理学，数学和计算机科学。该课程培训研究人员最先进的实验和计算资源和工具，可用于酵母模型的生物研究，并培训教师使用酵母来演示真核生物学的基本概念。 许多学生可能在不久的将来承担教育和监督责任;其他人已经是教授或博士后研究员，他们将立即传递他们在课程中学到的东西。许多参加该课程的学生继续领导自己的实验室，该课程为这些新实验室负责人提供了知识基础和重要的科学联系网络。近年来，男女学生人数相等，人数不足的少数民族学生参加了课程。为了进一步推动这一趋势，该课程被广泛宣传，并与机构计划进行了具体联系，以促进招募和保留代表性不足的群体进入生命科学研究界。实验方案和相关材料通过冷泉港实验室出版社的出版物传播。

Intellectual Merit: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's three-week summer course on Yeast Genetics and Genomics prepares students for modern scientific research in molecular genetics. The highly intensive laboratory-based course work is designed to make each student proficient in the fundamentals of yeast genetics, which then establishes the conceptual backbone for more sophisticated molecular technologies such as genome editing and next generation sequencing. The experimental portion of the course is complemented by daily theoretical lectures by instructors chosen for their proven expertise in the system and a world-class seminar series from renowned investigators that utilize the yeast system. Although the general organization of the course is intended to remain the same from year to year, changes in content are introduced as yeast biology and genomic approaches advance; as instructors are replaced new expertise is added to the course and the latest technologies and approaches are incorporated into the curriculum by the new instructors. Course participants are chosen from a pool of highly qualified applicants ranging from early career scientists to senior investigators and coming from diverse research backgrounds, including biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, mathematics and computer science.Broader Impacts: The course trains researchers in the most up-to-date experimental and computational resources and tools available for biological research in the yeast model, and trains teachers in the use of yeast to demonstrate the fundamental concepts of eukaryotic biology. Many of the students are likely to have educational and supervisory responsibilities in the near future; others are already professors or post-doctoral fellows who will immediately pass on what they have learned in the course. Many of the students who take the course go on to lead their own laboratories, with the course providing a foundation of knowledge and an important network of scientific contacts for these new lab heads. In recent years, female and male students were equally represented and under-represented minority students took part in the course. To further this trend, the course is advertised widely and specific contacts are made to institutional programs that facilitate recruiting and retention of underrepresented groups into the life sciences research community. The experimental protocols and associated materials are disseminated via publication by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.