Meeting: Embryology Course, MBL, June 2-July 15, 2013

120年来，海洋生物实验室(MBL)的胚胎学课程在美国发育生物学家的培养中发挥了关键作用。这门首要课程培养博士后和博士后学生，在一个独特的物理和智力环境中从事发育生物学的研究事业，这在世界其他任何地方都是不可复制的。这门课程是会议和身临其境的发育生物学科学与实践培训课程的混合体，在夏季为期六周的时间里提供。它包括一系列受国际赞誉的科学家的应邀演讲和相关讨论，学生们每天大部分时间都在实验室里探索如何进行科学研究。致力于发育生物学领域的教学和研究事业的课程学生，是从一贯有才华的国家申请者库中挑选出来的。传统上，每年班级的一些学生都会进入发育生物学社区的领导职位。该课程的教员都是该领域的知名科学家。一些教员在课程中担任实验室讲师，另一些教员则讲课并领导个别主题的讨论。本课程向学生介绍大量陆生和水生物种的胚胎，包括目前主要的和多样化的动物模型。技术包括广泛使用尖端显微镜的分子、细胞、遗传和发育生物学方法。在经验丰富的研究人员的指导下，学生们被要求在设备齐全的研究环境中制定和检验假设。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。由于其独特的性质，胚胎学课程已经并将继续在生物科学中产生长期而广泛的影响。

The Embryology Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has played a pivotal role in the training of American developmental biologists for 120 years. This premier course trains pre-and post-doctoral students for research careers in developmental biology in a unique physical and intellectual environment, not duplicated anywhere else in the world. The course is a hybrid between a conference and an immersive training course in the science and practice of developmental biology delivered over a six-week period in the summer. It consists of a series of invited talks by internationally acclaimed scientists and associated discussions with the students spending most of each day in the lab discovering how the science can be done. Course students, who are committed to teaching and research careers in the field of developmental biology, are chosen from a consistently talented pool of national applicants. Traditionally, a number of students from each year's class move into positions of leadership in the developmental biology community. The course faculty are renowned scientists in the field. Some of the faculty serve as laboratory instructors in the course, and others give lectures and lead discussions of individual topics. The course introduces students to the embryos of a large number of terrestrial and aquatic species including current primary and diverse animal models. Techniques include molecular, cellular, genetic, and developmental biological methods with extensive use of cutting-edge microscopy. Students are challenged to formulate and test hypotheses in a well-equipped research environment under the guidance of experienced research faculty. The MBL provides a unique learning environment, laboratory and support facilities, an animal collection facility, and one of the nation's finest research libraries. Because of its unique nature, the Embryology Course has and continues to achieve long-term and broad impact in the biological sciences.