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These intensive educational programs, one to four weeks
long, provide experience in specialized research techniques. Lecture
and laboratory courses in topics of current interest are also available.
2011 Special Topics Courses
Analytical
&
Quantitative
Light
Microscopy
Directors:
Greenfield Sluder, Jason Swedlow, and DavidWolf
A comprehensive and intensive course in light microscopy for
researchers in biology, medicine, and material sciences. This course
provides an in-depth examination of the theory of image formation and
application of video methods for exploring subtle interactions between
light and the specimen.
Biology of the Inner Ear: Experimental
and Analytical Approaches
Directors: Jeffrey T. Corwin , and
Jeffrey R. Holt
The Biology of the Inner Ear (BIE) course has adapted the intensive and
focused approach that typifies MBL courses to provide students with the
capacity to address important problems in auditory and vestibular
research. Students with backgrounds in biological and
physical/computational sciences and scientists new to investigations of
the inner ear are particularly encouraged to apply.
BioMedical Informatics
Directors:
James Cimino, and Joyce Mitchell
Principal
Investigator:
Cathy Norton
This week-long survey course is designed to familiarize individuals
with the application of computer technologies and information science
in medicine. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on computer
exercises, participants will be introduced to the conceptual and
technical components of medical informatics.
Computational Image Analysis in Cellular and Developmental Biology
Directors: Gaudenz Danuser, Khuloud Jaqaman, Steve Altschuler, Lani Wu
This 10 day course offers theory and hands-on training in the design and implementation of image processing software required for the quantitative and mechanistic analysis of light microscopy data in cellular and developmental biology. An additional subject in the course will be software design, addressing both the implementation of optimized algorithms and sharable code, including programming in teams.
Frontiers in Stem Cells &
Regeneration
Directors: Ken Muneoka,
and Gerald
P.
Schatten
The Stem Cells and Regeneration Course (formerly known as FrHESC) is a
dynamic, evolving laboratory and lecture course that includes the
complete array of biological and medical perspectives from fundamental
basic biology of "stemness" and mechanisms of regeneration through
evaluation of pluripotent stem cells for therapeutic benefit.
Fundamental Issues in Vision Research
Summer
2012 Directors: Mary
Ann Stepp, and Theodore Wensel
A two-week
lecture and laboratory course, experimentally based and problem
oriented, intended for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in
the early stages of vision research or planning to enter the
field. Students are presented with a comprehensive overview of
current research areas and approaches that will help to broaden their
understanding of this area.
Gene Regulatory
Networks for Development
Directors: EricDavidson
, and David McClay
A 10-day course comprised of morning lectures followed by workshop
discussions; afternoon computer practicals leading to student projects;
and wet lab demonstrations of gene regulatory perturbation analysis in
vivo.
Methods in Computational Neuroscience
Directors: Adrienne Fairhall, and Michael Berry
Animals interact with a complex world, encountering a wide variety of
challenges: they must gather data about the environment, discover
useful structures in these data, store and recall information about
past events, plan and guide actions, learn the consequences of these
actions, etc. These are, in part, computational problems that are
solved by networks of neurons, from roughly 100 cells in a small worm
to 100 billion in humans. Careful study of the natural context for
these tasks leads to new mathematical formulations of the problems that
brains are solving, and these theoretical approaches in turn suggest
new experiments to characterize neurons and networks. This interplay
between theory and experiment is the central theme of this course.
Molecular Biology of Aging
Directors: Steven N. Austad, and GaryB.Ruvkun
A three-week lecture and laboratory course featuring the newest and
most exciting ideas in aging research, with emphasis on molecular
approaches. A distinguished faculty will interact with students via
lecture, discussion, hands-on experiments and analysis of data.
Molecular Mycology: Current Approaches
to Fungal Pathogenesis
Directors: J.
Andrew
Alspaugh, and Deborah A. Hogan
An intensive course
designed to train
advanced graduate students, post-docs, and independent investigators in
different molecular methods used to study human fungal pathogens, and
the
models at the forefront of research on the mechanisms that underlie
fungal
diseases and their treatment.
Neuroinformatics
Directors: ParthaMitra
, and DavidKleinfeld
The ability to digitally acquire, store and analyze large volumes of
multichannel data in the neurosciences, ranging from multiple spike
trains to brain images, has given rise to a new and growing body of
research. This two-week course is structured around the related issues,
and will contain both pedagogical lectures on the basic statistical
techniques as well as focussed mini-workshops on specific neuroscience
topics where applications of these techniques are critical.
NeuroStereology
Workshop
Director: Mark West
The goal of
the workshop is to teach research scientists how to design, supervise,
and critically evaluate stereological studies of the nervous
system. Stereology is a methodology that provides meaningful
quantitative descriptions of the geometry of three-dimensional
structures from measurements that are made on two-dimensional images
sampled from a structure of interest.
Optical Microscopy
& Imaging in the
Biomedical Sciences
Directors: Robert Hard , and
ColinIzzard
This course is designed primarily for research scientists, physicians,
postdoctoral trainees, and advanced graduate students in animal, plant,
medical, and material sciences. Non-biologists seeking a comprehensive
introduction to microscopy and video imaging will benefit greatly from
the course. There are no prerequisites, but an understanding of the
basic principles of optics is desirable.
Seminar in the History of
Biology
2011 Topic: History of Cell Biology
Directors: JohnBeatty
, JamesCollins
, and JaneMaienschein
This is an
intensive week with annually varying topics designed for a group of no
more than 25 advanced graduate students, postdoctoral associates,
younger scholars, and established researchers in biology, history,
philosophy, and the social sciences.
Strategies and Techniques for Analyzing Microbial Population Structures
Directors: Mitchell L. Sogin and David B. Mark Welch
The rapidly expanding flow of information from next generation DNA sequencing platforms has fueled healthy debate about best practices for data analysis while at the same time building a user demand for tools that can address important questions in microbial ecology. The STAMPS course consists of lectures by experts in the analysis of molecular datasets and hands-on tutorials in use of computational packages by their designers, and emphasizes discussion and the exchange of ideas between faculty and students. The course serves graduate students, postdoctoral students and established faculty from around the world.
Summer Program in Neuroscience,
Ethics, & Survival (SPINES)
Directors: Keith
Trujillo, and JamesTownsel
The Summer Program in Neuroscience, Ethics & Survival (SPINES)
provides a rich experience in neuroscience. The core of the program is
an intensive one-month experience, in which students are exposed to
neuroscience laboratory techniques, contemporary neuroscience research,
ethics and survival skills (including grant writing, teaching, public
speaking, and others). Lecture, lab, workshop and discussion formats
are used. In a second optional month, students may apply to work full
time in a research laboratory at the MBL, especially those funded by
the National Institute of Mental Health. The program is targeted to
groups underrepresented in neuroscience to increase the probability of
professional success, although applications from any qualified students
interested in the SPINES curriculum are welcome. This is a full
fellowship program; all costs of attending the course, including
travel, housing, and meals at MBL are covered by the National Institute
of Mental Health and MBL.
Teaching About Neurobiology of Brain Dysfunction
Director: Michael Zigmond
A course designed primarily to assist faculty members to initiate or improve a course on the neurobiology of brain dysfunction for undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows at their home institutions. The course will provide a background in key neurological and psychiatric diseases, including patient presentations, a discussion of unanswered questions and of how one might design such a course, together with extensive materials to facilitate instruction, including a CD containing slides, handouts, articles of interest, and a bibliography. No clinical background will be required, but a basic knowledge of neurobiology will be assumed.
Workshop on Molecular Evolution
Directors: David Hillis, and Mitchell
L. Sogin
The Workshop on Molecular Evolution at Woods Hole presents a series of
lectures, discussions, and bioinformatic exercises that span
contemporary topics in molecular evolution. Since its inception in
1988, the workshop has encouraged the exchange of ideas between leading
theoreticians, software developers and workshop participants. The
workshop serves graduate students, postdoctoral students and
established faculty from around the world.
Zebrafish
Development and Genetics
Directors: David Raible, and Michael Granato
An intensive two-week course for
advanced graduate students,
postdoctoral fellows and independent investigators that will focus on
the
development and genetics of zebrafish. Participants will learn
fundamental and state of the art techniques tailored to a broad range
of
zebrafish research through hands-on experience. Designed for
participants
from all areas of biology, laboratory exercises are designed to convey
general
principles and concepts.
Summer Courses
The MBL offers advanced, graduate-level courses in embryology,
physiology, neurobiology, microbiology, reproduction, and parasitology
for six to nine weeks each summer.
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