TrainMALTA will be hosting the 2nd Annual Summer School which will focus on Model Systems. It will be held between 18 and 22 September 2017 at the Centre for Molecular Medicine and Biobanking, University of Malta, Msida, and will be open to all University of Malta faculty and research staff, as well as postgraduate students.
This event is being sponsored by the HORIZON 2020 TWINNING Project TrainMALTA in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, UK and KU Leuven, Belgium.
The focus of this Summer School will be on imparting the basics in the utilisation of model systems for the elucidation of the function of genes or variants within candidate genes. It will be both lecture-based and practical-based.
Participants will have the opportunity to earn about:
- The Danio rerio (zebrafish) and Drosophila melanogaster (the common fruit fly) as model organisms
- Induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs), their uses and applications, cell re-programming to induce adult somatic cells to revert to the pluripotent stage as well as induction mechanisms that can push cells down varied differentiation pathways
- CRISPR technology, which also includes 4-day hands-on laboratory practice.
The summer school is limited to 20 people for the lab-based sessions, experience in the lab is a prerequisite, and to 40 participants for the lecture sessions.
Registration can be carried out by completing the online registration form by latest 5 August 2017.
More information and the provisional summer school program can be found on the TrainMALTA project website.
Should you have any queries about the event, send an email to trainmalta@um.edu.mt.