BioTech 57: Selected Topics in Cell and Molecular Biology  May 23-28, 2016

Register Now!If you are an NIH employee paying with the signed vendor copy of the SF-182 form, please email:  registration@faes.org

The goal of this six day lecture/laboratory course is to provide graduate-level instruction on molecular and cellular biosciences.  The course focuses on critical thinking and problem solving, using a collection of approaches and emphasizing how fundamental, highly-significant biological problems are solved.  Focusing on four very distinct areas: stem cells, tissue culture, immunology, and proteomics and informatics, participants will obtain a firm foundation of the theoretical information while enhancing their laboratory aptitude.  

Lecture Topics 
Principles Underlying Stem Cell Biology; Different Types of Adult Stem Cells; Pluriptotent Stem Cells; Neural Stem Cells; Epigenetics and Stem Cells; Cancer Stem Cells; Introduction to Immunology; The Advantages of Tissue Culture Models, Cell Lines (Clonal vs Heterog­enous), Constituents of Tissue Culture Models (Media, Serum etc.); Facilities For Conducting Tissue Culture; Principles and Considerations Concerning the Room, Hood, Microscopes, Centrifuge; Introduction into Proteomics; Bioinformatics; DNA, RNA and Protein Databases.

Laboratory Topics 
Cell Culture Assays For Hematopoietic Stem Cells; Differentiating Pluripotent Embryonic Carcinoma Cells; Immunocytochemistry for Stem Cell Markers; Harvesting embryonic bodies from P19 cultures for immunocytochemis­try; Introduction to Flow Cytometry; Application of Flow Cytometry for the Analysis of Stem Cell Markers; Observation of Embryoid Bodies From P19 Cultures; ELISA and Western Analysis, Cell Cultures, Health, Confluence, Attachment; Methods for Subculture; Cell Counting; Clonal assays; Literature Searches Using PubMed, Searches of NCBI Resources Using Entrez, Protein Sequence Database Searches; Moving Toward the PDB; BLAST, Computational Biology: From Sequence to Structure 

General Training Rate
$1995.00

Discounted Training Rates

$1,795.00 - NIH Community, Academia, Government, Military

Comprehensive Binder
Contains all notes, protocols, and reference material needed. No additional books are required. 

Credit
Although no grades are given for courses, each participant will receive Continuing Education Units (CEUs) based on the number of contact hours. Upon completion of the course each participant will receive a certificate, showing completion of the workshop and CEU credits.  A total of 4.2 CEUs is offered for this workshop. 

Refund Policy
100% tuition refund or 100% full workshop credit is available for registrations cancelled 14 or more days prior to the start of the workshop. 
50% tuition refund or 100% full workshop credit is available for registrations cancelled between 4 to 13 days prior to the start of the workshop. 
0% refund, 100% full workshop credit is available for registrations cancelled 3 days or less prior to the start of the workshop.  

Notification
1.  All cancellations must be received in writing via email to Ms. Carline Coote at ccoote@mail.nih.gov.
2.  Cancellations received after hours are time marked for the following day.  
3.  In regards to a full or partial refund or a full workshop credit, you must indicate which option you are selecting at the time of your written cancellation. 
4.  All refund payments will be processed by the start of the initial workshop.

Suggested Accommodations
The American Inn of Bethesda
The Double Tree Hotel & Executive Center
Bethesda Hyatt Hotel 
Bethesda Court Hotel
Bethesda Marriott Hotel

 

 

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