Wellcome Trust Advanced Course: Drosophila Genetics and Genomics

21 June - 5 July 2006

Deadline for Application 3 March 2006

To be held at: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

Course Summary

This will be an advanced course on the genetics and genomics of

Drosophila. The intended audience is post-doctoral and graduate students

now working in a fly lab., or students who have recently completed a PhD

in another field and are moving into Drosophila research for their

postdoctoral studies. However students with other backgrounds will be

considered on their merits.

The course will cover advanced genetic methods in Drosophila, including

screens, mosaics and P-element systems, the Drosophila genomes, the

evolutionary and population biology of Drosophila, the genetic analysis

of complex characters, of behaviour and sex determination, as well as

databases, resources and high throughput screens with Drosophila. Drs

Ashburner, Hawley and Bergman will be the core teaching staff and about

seven guest lecturers will also be teaching.

The last time Drs Hawley and Ashburner taught a similar course (in Cold

Spring Harbor in 2004) the guest lecturers were Drs Lehman, Burtis,

White, Perrimon, Cooley, Karpen, Golic, Ganetsky, Baker and Langley. The

present course will involve an equally stellar cast of characters.

Go to:

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_wtx027650.html

for more details and application forms.