{"id":20708,"date":"2016-02-05T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emblog.embl.de\/ells\/?p=20708"},"modified":"2021-06-23T08:09:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T08:09:13","slug":"applications-invited-for-ells-learninglab-in-heidelberg-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/2016\/02\/05\/applications-invited-for-ells-learninglab-in-heidelberg-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications invited for ELLS LearningLAB in Heidelberg, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20688\" src=\"http:\/\/emblog.embl.de\/ells\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Poster-LLAB-Heidelberg-042016-725x1024.png\" alt=\"LLAB Heidelberg 042016\" width=\"196\" height=\"277\"><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Apply now for the ELLS LearningLAB in Heidelberg, Germany \u2013 27-29 April 2016!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS), in collaboration with HeidelbergCement, invites European secondary school science teachers to apply for the <strong>ELLS LearningLAB &#8220;Biodiversity in focus \u2013 exploring the barcode of life&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The 2.5-day professional training course in English, taking place at EMBL Heidelberg, will centre around the topics of biodiversity and DNA barcoding \u2013 a molecular method for species identification of living organisms. With a mix of seminars by practising&nbsp;scientists and biodiversity experts, hands-on activities and visits to state-of-the-art&nbsp;research facilities at EMBL and a restored&nbsp;quarry of HeidelbergCement, the course aims to offer an introduction to DNA barcoding, laboratory training in selected DNA technologies and bioinformatics analysis, and provide opportunities to explore how these can be used in the classroom to illustrate concepts in molecular biology as well as biodiversity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"announcement\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Please find further information about the LearningLAB, the course programme and how to register on<\/span> the <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"http:\/\/emblog.embl.de\/ells\/learninglabs\/ells-learninglabs-2016\/llab_announcement_heidelberg2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dedicated course application page<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Application deadline:<\/strong> 16 March 2016, 10 am CET \u2013 \u2013 early registrations are welcome and are more likely to be successful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Please feel free to pass this information on to any teacher colleagues who might be interested, including pre-service teachers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apply now for the ELLS LearningLAB in Heidelberg, Germany \u2013 27-29 April 2016! The European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS), in collaboration with HeidelbergCement, invites European secondary school science teachers to apply for the ELLS LearningLAB &#8220;Biodiversity in focus&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1669,1647,1610],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-20708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biodiversity","tag-dna-barcoding","tag-learninglab"],"acf":[],"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.svg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30361,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708\/revisions\/30361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20708"},{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/ells\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=20708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}