Training Courses 2005

Microarray Gene Expression Analysis: Power and Potential of Standardisation

Course organisers:
Astrid Lægreid: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Martin Kuiper : Ghent University, Belgium

During this one week course participants will learn and discuss microarray gene expression analysis with an emphasis on standardisation and benchmarking. Curriculum includes central biological issues in transcript profiling, introduction to experiemntal design and data analysis, laboratory training in labelling and hybrisation as well as data storage and handling, basics of microarray production and development of new microarray formats.
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Date and Venue: 23 - 27 May, 2005; Trondheim, Norway

Membrane Proteins - the rocky road from gene to crystal

Course organisers:
Margarida Archer Frazao: ITQB-UNL, Oeiras, Portugal
So Iwata: Imperial College, London, UK

Membrane proteins present a great challenge to structural biology. Knowing their structures will be essential to understand relevant biological systems. The sequence of topics covered by the course will follow roughly the "rocky road" to go from the gene to the crystal of membrane proteins, which are still two major bottlenecks on their structural characterization.
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Date and Venue: 19 - 24 September, 2005; ITQB, Oeiras, Portugal