Hi Everyone,
This is the final announcement for the next
Ascidian Workshop. Please note that the deadline for applications is
FEBRUARY 15.
It will be funded by an NSF PASI grant. We
expect that grad students will make up a big
portion of the group as well as post-docs or
young faculty. Although the title of the course contains the word
Advanced
(a requirement of the grant)
,
we are actually accepting advanced undergrads,
and graduate students, as in past workshops,
anyone with some relevant background and a need
and desire to know more about all aspects of
ascidian biology and genetics. Because of the
nature of the grant, at least half the
participants will be from the Americas (Canada,
U.S., Central and S. America) but there will be a
number of openings for participants from other parts of the world.
If you have an interest in attending this
workshop, or if you have students who would
benefit from it, we urge you to apply.
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.)
See the following link for past courses at Bocas.
http://striweb.si.edu/taxonomy_training/past_courses
Best wishes, Gretchen and Charles Lambert, Rosana
Rocha, and Rachel Collin (director of the Bocas lab)
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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