Martina Crispo, Head of the Transgenic and Experimental Animal Unit of the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay and ISTT Member, along with Jean-Jacques Panthier (Inst. Pasteur, Paris) organize the 2011 Course on “Genetics of Laboratory Rodents“, that will be held at the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 5-14. This course is co-sponsored by the International Society for Transgenic Technologies (ISTT). As in the first edition, the aim of this course is to offer a training opportunity to South American research scientists and veterinarians in charge of laboratory animal facilities, in the most prominent areas of mammalian genetics (mostly mouse). This course offers an opportunity to receive an intensive training and get in touch with scientist of the region working in the same fields of interest. The final program includes the following topics:
Tools for genetic analysis
Laboratory animal husbandry
Basic of mouse reproduction physiology
Population genetics, the breeding systems and the different categories of mouse strains
Origin and phylogeny of the rodent laboratory strains
Wild derived inbred strains
Spontaneous and induced mutations – phenotype driven and genotype driven mutagenesis
Genetic mapping; physical mapping; positional cloning; candidate gene identification
Statistical genetics and complex trait analysis
Transgenesis under its various forms, gene expression analysis, strategies in induced mutagenesis (knockout, knock in, conditional knockout, etc.)
Bioinformatics in genetics and genomics, database mining
Design of experiments and selection of the best animal models
The list of invited speakers includes:
- Jean Jacques Panthier (Institut Pasteur de Paris, France)
- Xavier Montagutelli (Institut Pasteur de Paris, France)
- Jean Louis Guénet (Institut Pasteur de Paris, France)
- Jean Jaubert (Institut Pasteur de Paris, France)
- Michel Cohen Tannoudji (Institut Pasteur de Paris, France)
- Ignacio Anegón (Institut de Transplantation-Urologie-Néphrologie,France)
- Marcelo Rubinstein (Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, UBA, Argentina)
- Andreia Salgado (CEMIB, UNICAMP, Brazil)
- Fernando Benavides (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas, USA)
- Mariela Bollati (Institut Pasteur de Montevideo)
- Martina Crispo (Institut Pasteur de Montevideo)
Here you can download a Poster for the 2011 Course. There are 2 slots reserved for ISTT Members. Additional information can be requested to: curso-genetica-raton@pasteur.edu.uy