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Course Date: October 9 – October 22, 2016
Deadline: July 29, 2016 | Apply here
Directors: David McClay, Duke University; Isabelle Peter, California Institute of Technology
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.
This course is supported with funds provided by:
 Howard Hughes Medical Institute
 NIH / National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
 Society for Developmental Biology
 The Company of Biologists
2015 Course Faculty
Scott Barolo, University of Michigan
 James Briscoe, NIMR London
 Martha Bulyk, Harvard Med
 Doug Erwin, Smithsonian Institution
 Justin Kumar, Indiana University
 Arthur Lander, UCI
 Bill Longabaugh, ISB, Seattle
 Dave McClay, Duke
 Roger Patient, Oxford
 Isabelle Peter, Caltech
 Rob Phillips, Caltech
 Ellen Rothenberg, Caltech
 Harinder Singh, Cincinnati
