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Gene Regulatory Networks for Development

Directors: Eric Davidson, California Institute of Technology; David McClay, Duke University


Course Date: October 12 - 21, 2008
Online Application Form (PDF) Deadline: June 30, 2008
2008 Course Schedule (PDF)

This Course is intended for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and professional scientists. It will continue for 10 intense days and will comprise morning lectures followed by workshop discussions; afternoon computer practicals leading to student projects; and wet lab demonstrations of gene regulatory perturbation analysis in vivo. Lectures will provide in depth analyses of well studied gene regulatory networks (GRNs) in both embryonic and post embryonic developmental systems; a comprehensive theory of developmental GRN structure and of the explanatory value of GRNs; and discussion of the rapidly growing area of GRN evolution. The practicals will include introduction and use of BioTapestry, the leading computational platform for representation of GRNs; outlines of kinetic analysis and GRN modeling, and relevant special topics in gene regulation as they pertain to development and evolution.

2008 Course Faculty
Hamid Bolouri, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
Mike Eisen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Patrick Lemaire, CNRS-Université de la Méditerranée
Mike Levine, University of California, Berkeley
Bill Longabaugh, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle
Paola Oliveri, University College, London
Ellen Rothenberg, California Institute of Technology
Angela Stathopoulos, California Institute of Technology


 
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