Current Methods in Cell Biology

Overview
Speakers
Programme

Course Overview

The major aim of the course is to allow participants to experience modern cell biology at work: not only to see but also to try out in practice how cutting-edge technologies can be used to answer questions at the frontiers of cell biology. It is a tradition that the entire faculty of the Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit of EMBL teaches the course to cover a broad spectrum of techniques.

In addition, being embedded in the collaborative environment at EMBL, the course provides an excellent opportunity for participants and course faculty to discuss current and future challenges in cell biology.

Audience

The course will be primarily aimed at postdocs and advanced graduate students who have developed an interest in cell biology. We wish to attract cell biologists who want to acquire quantitative, biophysical, and computational methods as well as scientists (including early-career principle investigators) with different backgrounds (including physics, chemistry, engineering, informatics, etc) who want to use their expertise to address current problems in cell biology. We aim to balance the number of participants with a background in biology and participants coming from other disciplines. A key criterium for selection is the potential benefit of adding novel cell biological methods to the students’ own research plans. Preference will be given to students where there is little or no possibility that the student can acquire these technologies at her/his home institution.

Modules/Resources

Biological sample preparation
Biochemistry
Microscopy
Fluorescent probes development
Image analysis
Mechanobiology

Learning Outcomes

The course will provide an update on the latest developments from the beginning to the end of an experiment. This includes recent advances in fluorescent probe development (e.g. FRET-based activity probes), through new techniques and tricks of biological sample preparation (e.g. mounting of live embryos), novel approaches in biochemistry and molecular biology (e. g. digital PCR), cutting-edge microscopy (e.g. light-sheet imaging of entire organisms, super-resolution light microscopy and correlative light and electron microscopy) and image analysis and mechanobiology – covering the complete range of biological complexity from single molecules to whole organisms.

As the topics of the practicals are closely related to the current research in EMBL laboratories, they will cover many experimental model organisms (yeast, mammalian cells, fly, ascidian) and a wide variety of methods (fluorescence and electron microscopy, biochemistry, in silico approaches, image analysis).

University of Cambridge

Rainer Pepperkok

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Robert Prevedel

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Jonas Ries

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Yannick Schwab

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Jared Toettcher

Princeton University

USA

Trainers

Lab	People
Cuylen	Martina Dees – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Yuki Hayashi – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Alberto Hernandez Armendariz – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Daja Schichler – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Diz-Munoz	Carlo Bevilacqua – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Andrea Imle – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Hector Sanchez Iranzo – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Ewa Maria Sitarska – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Ellenberg	Sébastien Avizou – Stilla, France Andrea Callegari – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Nico Dunkel – Stilla, France Moritz Kueblbeck – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Haering	Sumanjit Datta – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Indra Alon Shaltiel – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Hufnagel	Ulla-Maj Fiuza – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Rajwinder Singh – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Koehler	Cristina Pineiro Lopez – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Kreshuk	Dominik Kutra – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Neveu	Amit Mhamane – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Luigi Russo – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Pepperkok	George Galea – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Aliaksandr Halavatyi – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Juan Jung – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Muzamil Khan – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Sanjana Singh – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Malte Paulsen – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Magdalena Zimon – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Joanna Zukowska-Kasprzyk – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Prevedel	Carlo Bevilacqua – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Jakub Czuchnowski – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Mehmet Ozturk – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Ling Wang – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Ries	Joran Deschamps – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Ulf Matti – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Markus Mund – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Philipp Hoess – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Yiming Li – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Jervis Thevatasan – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Aline Tschanz – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Schwab	Tobias Dittrich – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Mandy Boermel – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Rachel Mellwig – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany Martin Schorb – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Scientific Organisers

Sara Cuylen-Häring

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Alba Diz-Munoz

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Course Organisers

Maria Mercedes Bacadare Goitia

EMBL Heidelberg

Germany

Programme

EMBO-Practical-Course-Current-Methods-in-Cell-Biology-Programme

Date: 8 - 17 Sep 2019

Location: EMBL Heidelberg

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