Summer Course at the Marine Biology Lab, Woods Hole, MA on the Molecular BIology of Aging
Course Directors: Daniel Promislow and Matt Kaeberlein
Dates: July 21st to August 10th
Topics covered: Molecular biology, evolution, demography and systems biology of aging
Webpage: http://hermes.mbl.edu/education/courses/special_topics/bag.html
Application Deadline: March 11, 2013
Details
The Ellison Medical Foundation sponsors the Molecular Biology of Aging Summer Course to be held July 21 – August 10, 2013 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. This three-week lecture and laboratory course features the newest and most exciting ideas in aging research. The course is under the new directorship of Matt Kaeberlein and Daniel Promislow. While the focus will be primarily on the molecular biology of aging, both lecture and lab will include essential evolutionary, statistical demography and systems biology aspects of aging research.
Costs of attending the course, including travel, housing, and meals at the Marine Biology Lab in Woods Hole, are fully covered by The Ellison Medical Foundation. A distinguished faculty will interact with approximately 20 students via lecture, discussion, hands-on experiments, and analysis of data.
2012 Faculty Lecturers
Steve Austad, UTHSCSA and the Barshop Institute
Nir Barzilai, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Holly Brown-Borg, University of North Dakota
Anne Brunet, Stanford University
Dan Gottschling, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Lenny Guarente, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marcia Haigis, Harvard Medical School
Pankaj Kapahi, Buck Institute for Research on Aging
Matt Kaeberlein, University of Washington
Matthew Meselson, Harvard University
Richard Morimoto, Northwestern University
Daniel Promislow, University of Georgia
Gary Ruvkun, Harvard Medical School
David Sinclair, Harvard Medical School
Yousin Suh, Albert Einstein College of Medicine