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Current methods in cell biology – Course and Conference Office

EMBO Practical Course

Current methods in cell biology

Overview

Proof of COVID-19 vaccination or recovery is required to attend this on-site course. Please see EMBL’s COVID-19 safety policy for on-site events.

Course overview

Experience modern cell biology at work: not only see but also 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.

The course also 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 criteria 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

  • Biological sample preparation
  • Microscopy
  • Image analysis
  • Fluorescent probes development
  • 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 organisms), novel approaches in molecular biology, cutting-edge microscopy (e.g. live imaging, super-resolution light microscopy and correlative light and electron microscopy) and mechanobiology – covering the complete range of biological complexity from single molecules to whole organisms. Participants will learn how to analyze imaging data using Cellprofiler and Ilastik.

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, molecular biology, in silico approaches, image analysis).

This course is kindly supported by the Cell Biology and Biophysics Unit of EMBL.

Date: 4 - 13 Sep 2022

Location: EMBL Heidelberg

Venue: EMBL Advanced Training Center


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Application: Closed


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