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EMBO Young Investigator PhD course
PhD Course Programme 2005
Course
Participants (Pop-up Photo essay)
Course Programme 
PhD Course presentations 2005
Polar Auxin Transport
Jirí Friml
A primer on protein
kinases (powerpoint 12.3 MB)
Andrea Musacchio, IFOM-IEO-Campus, Milan
Developmental origin of
morphological novelties in evolution
Miguel Manzanares, IIB, CSIC-UAM, Madrid, Spain
Cell Migration in the Forebrain
Oscar Marín, Instituto de Neurociencias, CSIC-UMH, Alicante
(Spain)
Biological Networks
Ron Milo, Uri Alon Group, Weizmann Institute, Israel
The cytoskeleton
(powerpoint 9.50 MB)
Miklós Nyitrai, Department of Biophysics, University of Pécs,
Pécs, Hungary.
Physics Meets Biology
Daniel Otzen, Department of Life Sciences, Aalborg University
Giving Presentations
Martin Reddington Human Frontier Science Program
Biofilms
Ute Römling, Microbiology and Tumor Biology Center, Karolinska
Institutet, Stockholm
Fluorescence Microscopy
Victor Sourjik, University of Heidelberg
Course
Outline
The course comprises of:
Six tutorials (pairs of two held in parallel).
The tutorials will address practical problems, such as fluorescence
microscopy, protein structure prediction, analysis of protein structure
or provide a lecture and discussion forum on structural biology, omics
and physics meets biology.
For practical problems, tutorial teachers will give a 30 - 45 minute
introduction, followed by discussion.
The lecture will be 60 min with 30 min for discussion. Students should
come with practical problems related to their research.
A morning session on Writing/Talking Science.
Lectures in compartments and trafficking, signaling
cascades, regulation of gene expression, structure and function, cell-cell
signaling, cellular networks, systems biology, bioinformatics, evolution
and development and molecular medicine.
A journal club-like presentation of a scientific paper
A 3-minute oral presentation of posters by participating students.
A written exercise in the form of either writing a scientific paper
or an independent research proposal. The exercises will be reviewed
with the course teachers.
Dinner and an evening out in Heidelberg.
Participating students are expected to:
Present a paper of their choice from a pool of 60
papers in a journal-club like setting.
Prepare a poster and a short presentation
of their research.
Prepare questions for the tutorials of their choice.
Prepare one of the following, please note that either
a paper writing exercise or independent research proposal should be
sent back to us by 19 August 2005 as an email attachment:
I. a paper writing exercise
- Students should write up their poster / research in the form of
a primary research manuscript. The manuscript should be limited to
3000 words and 3 figures, adhering to a modified Current Biology reports
format.
II. an independent
research proposal - Students are asked to write a research
proposal unrelated to their current research. The aim of this exercise
is to prepare students for writing a fellowship proposal. The proposal
is limited to 2000 words and may not include figure or tables.
Application
A total of 36 Students from EMBO Young Investigator
labs will be selected to participate in the course. The next deadline
for applications will be 30 April 2005.
Selection
The PhD course committee (Christian Ungermann, Bassem Hassan, Ildiko
Szabo and Daniel Otzen) score the applications and make their final
selections in May 2005. Successful applicants will be informed via email.
Participation details
The course is open to the selected PhD students of EMBO Young Investigators.
Accommodation and meals are covered for PhD students from EMBO Young
Investigator labs.
Venue: Hotel
Villa Toskana
Hamburger Strasse 4-8,
D-69181 Heidelberg-Leimen,
Tel: +49.6224.8292-0
Fax: +49.6224.8292-11
E-Mail: info@hotel-villa-toskana.de
If you arrive at Heidelberg Main Station it is suggested you take
a taxi to the hotel.
Course organisers
Christian Ungermann, Bassem Hassan, Ildiko Szabo, Daniel Otzen, Gerlind
Wallon and Kim Piggott
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