Hi Everyone,
We have now set the dates for the next Ascidian Workshop:
Pan American Advanced Studies Institute (PASI):
Advanced Tunicate Biology: Integrating Modern and
Traditional Techniques for the Study of Ascidians June 9-30, 2011
at the Panama Bocas del Toro Smithsonian Tropical
Research Institute. Notice that this is a 3 week workshop, which will include:
* Lectures on recent advances in ascidian taxonomy
* Identification and systematics, with plenty
of hands-on lab time and field collecting
* Training in methods for DNA barcoding
* Modern imaging and bioinformatics approaches to curation of samples
* Lectures on symbiosis, chemical ecology, evo-devo, and invasion biology.
* Lectures on basic physiology and
developmental biology, which are necessary to a
full understanding of ascidian biology.
* Demonstrations on obtaining and fertilizing
gametes from a wide variety of solitary and
colonial species, and starting cultures in the laboratory.
The following link gives background information on the participating experts:
http://striweb.si.edu/taxonomy_training/future_courses/2011/2011_PASI_atp_Experts.html
For more information, go to the following link:
http://striweb.si.edu/taxonomy_training/future_courses/2011/2011_PASI_Advanced_Tunicate_Biology.html
and click on the Download PDF link (4.36mb).
(Because of its size I have not included it in this email.)
It will be funded by an NSF PASI grant which has
certain rules about the participants. They have
to have 50% from the U.S., they can pay for
travel for anyone from the America's and those
not from the America's cannot be more than 10% of
the course and unfortunately cannot be supported
on the grant. PASI's are aimed at post-docs or
young faculty but of course grad students make up
a big portion of the group as well.
We will evaluate the applications the week after the deadline in February.
See the following link for past courses at Bocas.
http://striweb.si.edu/taxonomy_training/past_courses
We will send out a second announcement later with
more complete information. For now, follow the above links.
Best wishes, Gretchen Lambert
Gretchen Lambert
12001 11th Ave. NW
Seattle, WA 98177
tel. 206-365-3734
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http://depts.washington.edu/ascidian/
University of Washington Friday Harbor Laboratories
"Ascidians are back in the limelight, with a good
chance of staying there." -- O. Pourquié, the journal Nature, 8 Feb. 2001.
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