EMBRYOLOGY COURSE

描述(申请人提供)：海洋生物实验室(MBL)开设胚胎学课程已有近120年的历史，在美国发育生物学家的培养中发挥了重要作用。该课程培养博士后和博士后学生，在独特的物理和智力环境中从事发育生物学的研究工作，这在美国其他地方是不能复制的。胚胎学课程包括一系列的正式讲座、非正式研讨会、扩展讨论和在夏季为期六周的密集实验室研究经验。该课程的学生致力于发育生物学领域的教学和研究事业，并从国内和国际申请者中挑选出一贯有才华的人。传统上，一个 每年班上的许多学生后来都进入了全球发育生物学社区的领导职位。教学人员是该领域的资深科学家，他们中的一些人担任本课程的讲师和研究模块的负责人，另一些人则讲课和领导个别主题的讨论。课程由三个单元组成，每个单元大约两周的时间。每个单元平均配备3-4名驻地讲师，外加同等数量的外部讲师。随着外地的重要事态发展，这些单元的主题每年都在变化。本课程向学生介绍大量的陆地和海洋胚胎，包括线虫、果蝇、浮游生物、海鞘、海胆、斑马鱼、两栖动物、雏鸟和老鼠。技术包括目前的分子生物学方法、胚胎操作、显微注射和微操作、显微镜和计算机辅助成像技术，以及一些免疫化学和原位杂交方法。学生被要求在设备齐全的研究环境中，在经验丰富的研究教师和助理的指导下，制定和检验假设。为了支持这门课程，MBL提供了独特的学习环境、实验室和支持设施、动物收藏设施和全国最好的研究图书馆之一。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For nearly 120 years, the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has offered the Embryology Course, which has played an important role in the training of American developmental biologists. The course trains pre-and post-doctoral students for research careers in developmental biology in a unique physical and intellectual environment, not duplicated elsewhere in the nation. The Embryology Course consists of a series of formal lectures, informal seminars, extended discussions, and intensive laboratory research experience delivered over a six-week period in the summer. Course students are selected who are committed to teaching and research careers in the field of developmental biology, and are chosen from a consistently talented pool of national and international applicants. Traditionally, a number of students from each year's class later move into positions of leadership in the worldwide developmental biology community. The teaching faculty are senior scientists in the field, some of whom serve as instructors and lead research modules in the course, and others give lectures and lead discussions of individual topics. The course consists of three modules, each of which is about 2 weeks long. Each module is staffed by an average of three-four resident instructors, plus a comparable number of outside lecturers. The themes of the modules change from year to year as important developments in the field occur. The course introduces students to a large number of terrestrial and marine embryos including C. elegans, Drosophila, planarians, ascidians, sea urchins, zebrafish, amphibians, chick and mouse. Techniques include current molecular biological methods, embryonic manipulation, microinjection and micromanipulation, microscopy and computer-assisted imaging technologies, and a number of immunochemical and in situ hybridization approaches. Students are challenged to formulate and test hypotheses in a well-equipped research environment and under the guidance of experienced research faculty and assistants. In support of the course, the MBL provides a unique learning environment, laboratory and support facilities, an animal collection facility, and one of the nation's finest research libraries.