Cajal course: Advanced approaches to neuro evo-devo
Course overview
This course is a theoretical and practical training course on neurodevelopment and its evolution. It will provide an overview of the current concepts and knowledge on central nervous system development in several species, including invertebrates, mice, and humans, and their link to diseases. It will combine lectures and hands-on projects on convergent and divergent developmental processes across species at the molecular, cellular, circuit, and behavioural levels, including those relevant for human disease. It will include methods in genetics and molecular biology (e.g. genome editing), cellular neuroscience (e.g. transplantations), circuit neuroscience (e.g. live imaging) and -omics (e.g scRNA seq and bioinformatics).
This course will provide participants with a broad yet practical understanding of how the brain develops in different species, and how modern genetic approaches now allow cross-species comparisons to identify key developmental mechanisms. It is intended for PhD students and early-career postdocs.
Course directors
Denis Jabaudon
Course director
Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Stephanie Baulac
Co-director
Paris Brain Institute, Institut du Cerveau (ICM), France
Claude Desplan
Co-director
Department of Biology, NYU New York, USA
Emilie Pacary
Co-director
Neurocentre Magendie, University of Bordeaux, France
Details and registration
http://cajal-training.org/on-site/neuro-evo-devo/
Last update 30/03/22