This will be a unique setting and an excellent opportunity to acquire skills in neighbouring disciplines where expertise is usually lacking “at home”. We will teach up-to-date techniques for a broad spectrum of marine animal models including amphioxus, sea urchin, crustacean, annelid, planarian, jellyfish, sea anemone and other species collected on site

Here, our aim will be to transfer molecular techniques such as whole mount insitu hybridization, reverse genetics via morpholinos, RNAi or zinc finger nucleases, as well as a broad spectrum of imaging techniques such as WMISH, RNAi and transgenesis from one species to the other.

In ‘normal’ scientific life, each of these experiments would have required a visit between labs and participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own species of choice. Please contact us beforehand if this is the case.

The course will involve a module about how to establish genomic resources for a new animal model taking advantage of new sequencing techniques. The course will also introduce into the new field of environmental genomics, conducting one huge sampling and sequencing experiment over the whole duration of the course. The weekend in the middle of the course will be used for a palaeontological field trip.

We look forward to seeing you in Sweden!

The Organizing Committee

Co-Sponsors