Sample preparation for hybridisation

• RNA isolation & quality control
• 1st & 2nd strand cDNA synthesis
• cDNA purification
• In vitro transcription
• aRNA purification
• Hybridisation probe labelling
• Hybridisation and Washing of Microarrays

Scanning of hybridised chips

Image analysis of microarray scans

• Image evaluation
• Gridding
• Quantitation
• Normalization

Data mining

• Statistical analysis
• clustering

Microarray databases

• MIAME
• Microarray Repositioreis
• Submission to public databases

System biology analysis

• Pathway analysis
• Gene ontology

Christian Schwager, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Amir Abdollahi, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
Alvis Brazma, EMBL-EBI-Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Helmut Friess, European Pancreas Center / Heidelberg University, Heidelberg,
Germany
John Quackenbush, TIGR (The Institute tor Genomic Research), Rockville , USA
Peter Huber, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
Ute Wirkner, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

Jörg Hoheisel, DKFZ Heidelberg, "DNA microarray technnology"
Eileen Furlong, EMBL, "Drosophila muscle development"
Rainer Pepperkok, EMBL, "Cell arrays and HT siRNA screening"
Philipp Khaitovitch, MPG, Leipzig
Peter Lichter; DKFZ Heidelberg, "CGH applications"
Hermann-Josef Gröne, DKFZ Heidelberg, "Expression profiling of microdissected tissue"
Roger Bumgarner; Seattle; USA
Helmut Friess; European Pancreas Center
Andreas Plückthun, Universität Zürich, "Protein Engineering and Directed Evolution"
Todd R. Golub, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Stuart L. Schreiber, Howard Hughes Medical Institute: "Proteomics to target
Validation"
Mathias Uhlen; KTH, Stockholm
Wilhelm Ansorge; EMBL, Heidelberg: "DNA microarray technnology and applications"
and the organizers
and the staff of the host institutes

Online registration only will be accepted, please click here.
You will be notified of the outcome of your application after the deadline for registration is over.

Registration fee: EUR 200 (including accommodation in a double room, meals, and local transport). Participants from industry will be liable to a fee of Eur 1500 to be paid directly to EMBO.

The registration fee should not be sent before acceptance to the course.

The course will start on the morning of Monday, June 20th. Please aim to arrive on Sunday night for a first evening of getting to know each other. The course will close around lunchtime on Saturday, June 25th.

Shuttle busses will go from the hotels to EMBL and back mornings and evenings.

Accommodation in twin rooms is included in the course fee from Sunday, June 19th to Saturday, June 25th. Single rooms are available at extra cost (approx 25 Eur per night). Any additional nights will be charged extra. Please notify us/the hotel should your accommodation needs change. All speakers and participants will be lodged at the ISG Hotel.

The course will take place in the teaching lab, computer class and seminar room 202 at EMBL. For instructions on how to reach the institute, please click here.

Course & Conference Office
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
Meyerhofstr. 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
e-mail: conferences@embl-heidelberg.de