Molecular Approaches to Microbial Biodiversity (MBL Summer Courses 2000 - 2003)

caroline S. harwood博士。卡洛琳·哈伍德获得了一笔资助，参加为期六周半的暑期微生物多样性强化课程。该课程将于2000年至2003年在马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔的海洋生物实验室开设。科学界普遍认为，生物技术在环境、制药和医疗领域的持续扩展取决于我们认识和利用地球上存在的微生物的巨大生物多样性的能力。本课程的目的是培养学生对各种新微生物的认识和有效研究。本课程将由研究生和博士后学生，以及想要在微生物学技术方面胜任的知名研究人员参加，这些研究人员可以与广泛的微生物合作，并在识别和理解微生物之间的进化关系方面取得进展。本课程主要是一门实验课程，强调自然是研究微生物的来源；因此，初学者和高级学生有平等的机会去发现。学生将分离各种代谢类型的微生物，他们将使用分子技术，计算机分析和比较基因组学的方法来挖掘各种微生物的财富。本课程的实验部分将辅以提供新陈代谢、进化和基因组学理论背景的讲座。还将举行一系列关于基因组学和微生物进化领域当前主题的小型专题讨论会。

DEB-0074786Caroline S. HarwoodDr. Caroline Harwood has been awarded a grant for an intensive six-and-a-half week summer course in Microbial Diversity to be given at The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts in the years 2000 though 2003. There is general agreement in the scientific community that the continued expansion of biotechnology into the environmental, pharmaceutical and medical arenas depends on our ability to recognize and exploit the vast biodiversity of microbes that exist on earth. The aim of the course is to train students to recognize and effectively study diverse kinds of new microorganisms. The course will be attended by graduate and postdoctoral students, as well as established investigators, who want to become competent in microbiological techniques for working with a broad range of microbes and in approaches for recognizing and understanding evolutionary relationships between microbes. The course is primarily a laboratory course that will emphasize nature as the source of microorganisms for research; thus the beginner and the advanced student have equal chances to make discoveries. Students will isolate various metabolic types of microbes and they will use molecular techniques, computer analysis and approaches of comparative genomics to mine the riches of diverse microbes. The laboratory component of the course will be complemented by lectures that provide theoretical background in metabolism, evolution and genomics. A series of mini-symposia on current topics of interest in the areas of genomics and microbial evolution will also be given.