EXCEED THE SPACEPROVIDED. The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Course on C. elegans is an intensive three-week summer course aiming to introduce students to the practical aspects of using C. elegans as an experimental system. The program seeks to provide established researchers, postdocs, and senior graduate students with limited or no previous C. elegans experience with enough theoretical andpractical knowledge to allow them to productively introduceand use C. elegans as a tool in their home laboratories. Sessions are planned to cover the following topics: Worm Pushing; Anatomy and Development; Forward Genetics (mutagenesis, complementation, mapping); Generation of Transgenics; Analysis of Expression Patterns; Reverse Genetics (knockouts,RNA interference); and Worm Biochemistry. The course is taught by a faculty who are fully active in, and have made significant contributions to, the areas under study. This ensures that the newest techniques and ideas will be presented. The course's curriculumwill continueto be reviewed and updated annually so that it reflects the recent advances in the fields under study. The faculty is supplemented by a series of seminar speakers who will present current research and applicationof advanced techniques in their fields of expertise. PERFORMANCE SITE ========================================Section End===========================================
