米国東海岸コールドスプリングハーバー研究所における技術講習会の登録延長、および参加費補助について連絡がありましたので掲載します。実験技術の習得だけでなく、参加者と講師陣との交流を通じて、共同研究や留学先の相談なども行うことができるはずです。

両生類研究施設・鈴木 厚


Dear Colleagues,

In order to encourage applicants to the 2016 Xenopus Course at Cold Spring Harbor, we are extending the application date to Feb. 21st and are able to offer substantial support to offset course costs thanks to support from the NICHD, Helmsley Charitable Trust, and HHMI to eligible candidates.

In addition to the traditional skills taught in the Xenopus course, this year, we hope to emphasize two approaches: CRISPR based gene modification and biological imaging. We plan to ask students for genes of interest, help them design CRISPR targeting constructs, and phenotype embryos after CRISPR mediated depletion of the gene product using all of the power of Xenopus. This was a big hit last year, and we hope will continue to be motivating for students to bring their own projects to the course.

In addition, we have the good fortune of overlapping with the Quantitative Imaging (QI) course at CSH. We plan to build interactions between our groups to image Xenopus embryos using the latest imaging methods. This was a huge success last year and offers the possibility to try light-sheet, high-speed live confocal, and super-resolution imaging methods.

Important Dates:
Course - April 5-18, 2016
Application Due Date: February 21st, 2016

We have an exciting list of speakers/instructors including:

Ira Blitz, University of California, Irvine
Sang-Wook Cha, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center
Frank Conlon, University of North Carolina
Helene Cousin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lance Davidson, University of Pittsburgh
Heithem El-Hodiri, Nationwide Childrens Hospital Research Institute
Rebecca Heald, University of California, Berkeley
Raymond Keller, University of Virginia
Ann Miller, University of Michigan
Gerald Thomsen, Stony Brook University
John Wallingford, University of Texas at Austin
Andrea Wills, Stanford University

For more information and application submission, please visit:
http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-XENO&year=16

Thanks,
Mustafa Khokha, Yale University
Karen Liu, King’s College, London


Course objectives:
microinjection, microdissection, and grafts - Organizer, animal cap, neural crest and more
in situ hybridization
immunohistochemistry
CRISPR and MO loss of function.
Germ cell transplants to raise CRISPR lines
Homologous recombination in Xenopus with CRISPR
live Imaging and fluorescence - movies, photography and figure design
transgenesis

米国ウッズホールにて、Bioinformatics and Genome Editing Workshopsが開催されます。
下記にメールを転載いたします。BioinformaticsとGenome Editingの講習会を連続して開催することで、相乗効果と旅費の節約を行っています。

両生類研究施設・鈴木　厚


Dear Xenopus Community,
Registration for the Bioinformatics and Genome Editing Workshops is now open.

The Bioinformatics Workshop is being held May 1-7 and is being taught by Leonid Peshkin, Virginia Savova, Taejoon Kwon and Ian Quigley. This is an excellent intensive course that will teach you how to analyze your data, whether it is RNA-Seq or proteomics. For those wishing to learn some computer coding and how to look at your data without having to rely on others than this is the workshop for you. You can bring your datasets and analyze them during that week. For more details and a tentative syllabus please visit the Bioinformatics webpage (http://www.mbl.edu/xenopus/workshops/bioinformatics).
Workshop Costs (Bioinformatics)
Event housing, meals and registration, Single room – $1,800
Event housing, meals and registration, Double room -$1,400
Event meals and registration (no housing) – $1,000

The Genome Editing Workshop is being held May 6-14 and is being taught by Rob Grainger, Ira Blitz, Takuya Nakayama, Panna Tandon and Wil Ratzan. This is a hands on wet lab workshop designed to teach you how to use the Xenopus genome to design your sgRNA, clone it and test it. Both X. laevis and X. tropicalis will be available for this workshop. The workshop is meant to teach you how to make mutants in your own lab. It covers both theoretical and practical lectures as well as microinjection and molecular biology. For more details and a tentative syllabus please visit the Genome Editing webpage (http://www.mbl.edu/xenopus/workshops/genomeediting-workshop). The instructors work with you prior to the workshop to design the sgRNA or TALENs you would like made and if you register prior to April 1 the sgRNA and TALENs will be cloned for you and waiting to be injected when you arrive. But we require early registration to ensure the work is completed before the start of the workshop.
Workshop Cost (Genome Editing)
Event housing, meals and registration, Single room – $2,200
Event housing, meals and registration, Double room -$1,800
Event meals and registration (no housing) – $1,400

NEW THIS YEAR
Since the workshops are back to back you have the option of registering for both workshops at a reduced fee. This is excellent value for money.
Combined Workshop Cost (Bioinformatics and Genome Editing)
Event housing, meals and registration, Single room – $3,300
Event housing, meals and registration, Double room -$2,600
Event meals and registration (no housing) – $2,000

As with previous workshops scholarships will be made available to those that require it. Please contact me for more details regarding scholarships. The goal is to encourage as many of you to attend as possible. All costs include room and board and reagents, though you will have to bring your own laptop for the Bioinformatics workshop. Space is limited so register early.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to email and ask

Sincerely,

marko Horb

NBRPネッタイツメガエル・平成27年度技術講習会の参加登録を開始いたします。

ネッタイツメガエルを用いて受精卵採取法・顕微注入法（トランスジェニック・ノックダウン）・幼生・成体飼育法を中心とした講習を行ないますので、ネッタイツメガエル初心者や未経験者の方は是非ご参加ください。以前の講習会に参加されたリピーターの方々の参加も歓迎いたします（参加費は無料です）。実習・ディスカッションの時間も十分取り、充実した講習会としたいと思います。
参加ご希望の方は、下記のフォームに記入して鈴木厚 (asuzuki#hiroshima-u.ac.jp)へお送りください。（# を @ に換えて下さい。）

教員・研究員・学生を問わず、皆様のご参加をお待ちしております。なお、お早めにお申し込みしていただけますと大変有難いです。
よろしくお願いいたします。

技術講習会責任者・鈴木　厚


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お名前：
ご所属：
職位/学年：
E-mailアドレス：

宿泊手配希望（学士会館シングル3,800円/1泊）：
http://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/top/kenkyusyo/syukuhaku/p_471489.html
　あり　or　なし （どちらかを消してください）

懇親会参加希望：
　あり　or　なし （どちらかを消してください）

注）定員になり次第、参加登録受付を終了します。
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　　　NBRPネッタイツメガエル・平成27年度技術講習会

日時：平成２８年２月２９日（月）午後〜３月２日（水）午前
開催場所：広島大学大学院理学研究科 附属両生類研究施設
　　　　（東広島市鏡山１−３−１）

実施内容：ネッタイツメガエルを用いた、受精卵採取法・顕微注入法（トランスジェニック・ノックダウン）・幼生・成体飼育法ほか

外部講師：荻野肇先生（長浜バイオ大学）、越智陽城先生（山形大学）、鈴木賢一先生（広島大学）

日程の概要（見学や講義の順番については、変更する場合があります）：
２月２９日（月）午後
・受付（両生類研１Ｆ玄関・１３時〜１４時）
・日程およびNBRP事業の説明
・両生類研究施設・NBRP飼育施設および系統維持班見学
・講義・説明（１）
・受精卵採取法の実習-1
・学士会館（ホテル）チェックイン
・懇親会

３月１日（火）
・講義・説明（２）
・受精卵採取法の実習-2
・顕微注入法（トランスジェニック・ノックダウン）の実習・ディスカッション

３月２日（水）午前
・学士会館（ホテル）チェックアウト
・顕微注入胚の観察・評価
・ネッタイツメガエル幼生・成体飼育法の実習

来年２月２９日（月）〜３月２日（水）に技術講習会を開催予定です。
詳細が決まりましたら、本ページにてお知らせいたします。

ネッタイツメガエル未経験もしくは初心者の皆様におかれましては、是非ご参加ください。以前の講習会に参加されたリピーターの方々の参加も歓迎いたします。

どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。

技術講習会責任者・鈴木　厚

Yale大学のMustafa Khokha博士から、米国コールドスプリングハーバー研究所におけるXenopus Courseの連絡が届いています。
カエルを用いた基本的な技術に加え、ゲノム編集とバイオイメージングの講習が含まれるとのことです。以下にメールの抜粋を転載します。

両生類研究施設・鈴木　厚

As many of you know, the Xenopus course at CSH has a long tradition of training the next generation of Xenopus researchers in critical skills to exploit Xenopus for understanding cell and developmental biology.

In addition to the traditional skills taught in the Xenopus course, this year, we hope to emphasize two approaches: CRISPR based gene modification and biological imaging. We plan to ask students for genes of interest, help them design CRISPR targeting constructs, and phenotype embryos after CRISPR mediated depletion of the gene product using all of the power of Xenopus. This was a big hit last year, and we hope will continue to be motivating for students to bring their own projects to the course.

In addition, we have the good fortune of overlapping with the Quantitative Imaging (QI) course at CSH. We plan to build interactions between our groups to image Xenopus embryos using the latest imaging methods. This was a huge success last year and offers the possibility to try light-sheet, high-speed live confocal, and super-resolution imaging methods.

Important Dates:
Course - April 5-18, 2016
Application Due Date: January 31, 2016

We have an exciting list of speakers/instructors including:

Ira Blitz, University of California, Irvine
Sang-Wook Cha, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center
Frank Conlon, University of North Carolina
Helene Cousin, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Lance Davidson, University of Pittsburgh
Heithem El-Hodiri, Nationwide Childrens Hospital Research Institute
Rebecca Heald, University of California, Berkeley
Raymond Keller, University of Virginia
Ann Miller, University of Michigan
Gerald Thomsen, Stony Brook University
John Wallingford, University of Texas at Austin
Andrea Wills, Stanford University

For more information and application submission, please visit:
http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-XENO&year=16

Thanks,

Mustafa Khokha, Yale University

米国NXRのHorb博士より、NXR実験設備の利用費・宿泊費の補助について連絡が届いています。過去2年ほどの間に、米国内やヨーロッパから研究者がNXRを訪れて実験を行っていると伺っています。

両生類研究施設・鈴木 厚


Dear Xenopus community,

The application for the 2016 Whitman Center Fellowships at the Marine Biological Laboratory is now open. I attach a PDF with more information. Xenopus researchers are encouraged to apply if you would like to come and use NXR resources (or MBL resources) for your research.

In the past two summers there have been 10 awards given to Xenopus researchers. The summer is an exciting time at the MBL and you have the opportunity to interact with a number of different investigators from around the world. In addition, the MBL is now offering fellowships for more junior investigators. Overall, the MBL has been very happy with the researchers coming to the NXR these past two summers and are expecting more applications from Xenopus researchers. The awards cover your housing for the time you are here. So if you’d like to come and do some X. tropicalis work, use the various transgenic lines or create some mutant lines then take advantage of this opportunity.

Please visit the webpage for more details about the application. You will require to coordinate your application with me as the review panel wants to make sure each individual fits with the resident research program. Feel free to contact me for more details.

http://www.mbl.edu/research/research-awards/whitman-fellowships/


Sincerely,

Marko Horb

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Marko Horb, Ph.D.
Director, National Xenopus Resource (NXR)
Associate Scientist, Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering
Marine Biological Laboratory
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543

米国ウッズホールにおけるイメージング講習会の通知が届いています。先週、Xenopus PI meetingが開催された場所でもあり、Xenopusに限らず世界中の生物学研究者が足繁く通う歴史ある研究所です。今年のPI meetingは前回を上回る参加者が集まり、その中には講習会の参加者も多くいました。会議を通じて感じるのは、このインターネットの時代においても欠かすことが出来ない、小さい会議・講習会を通じて初めて得る共同研究の機会、最新情報の口コミなどでしょう。是非、参加をご検討ください。

両生類研究施設・鈴木　厚

Dear Xenopus Community
This is the second notice to inform you that Registration is now open for the next Advanced Imaging Workshop that is being held Nov 15-22.
https://ws3.mbl.edu/iebms/reg/reg_p1_form.aspx?oc=10&ct=STDCONF&eventid=8586

This is an excellent and intensive workshop taught by Xenopus researchers that will help you in your imaging techniques. Here is a link to a brief blog about our first Imaging Workshop written by Gary McDowell: http://thenode.biologists.com/the-first-xenopus-imaging-course/events/

Scholarships are available for those in need. If you are a grad student or postdoc go to your PI and say you want to go. The interactions and instructions you receive at this workshop will improve your effort back in your lab and I am sure your PI would want that.

Hope to see many of you registering

marko
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Marko Horb, Ph.D.
Director, National Xenopus Resource (NXR)
Marine Biological Laboratory
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543

NXRのMarko Horb博士からImaging Workshop参加登録開始のお知らせが届いています。
参加者補助もありますので、ご検討下さい。
ミーティングレポートには、日本人参加者のレポートも掲載していますので、是非ご覧下さい。

両生類研究施設・鈴木　厚


Dear Xenopus community,
Registration is now open for the next Advanced Imaging Workshop that will be held Nov 15-22. The NXR has several scholarships available to those that register; please email me for more details. If you have any plans or thoughts on attending please let me know. John Wallingford, Lance Davidson and Scott Fraser are the instructors. This is an excellent workshop and you can read about the last workshop as told by one of the participants:
http://thenode.biologists.com/the-first-xenopus-imaging-course/events/

Link for Registration : https://ws3.mbl.edu/iebms/reg/reg_p1_form.aspx?oc=10&ct=STDCONF&eventid=8586
Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any problems or questions

Sincerely,

Marko Horb

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Marko Horb, Ph.D.
Director, National Xenopus Resource (NXR)
Marine Biological Laboratory
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543

Xenopus Communityのメールリストで、下記の案内が届きましたので掲載いたします。
Xenopus 研究者による講義・実習も予定されています。

両生類研究施設・鈴木　厚


Dear Colleagues,

Institut Curie is organizing jointly with UPMC the 6th International Course on Developmental Biology in October 2015.

The aim of the course is to provide participants with a comprehensive coverage of the paradigms, problems and technologies of modern Developmental Biology with a particular attention to stem cells.

More Information & registration: http://enseignement.curie.fr/en/content/6th-course-developmental-biology-stem-cells-morphogenesis-2015


Could you please advertise about this event in the Xenopus community?
Thank you very much


The scientific committee
Allison Bardin and Jean-René Huynh Institut Curie
Claire Fournier-Thibault and Muriel Umbhauer UPMC
Merci de noter ma nouvelle adresse mail:
Please note my new email address:
claire.thibault@upmc.fr


Claire Fournier-Thibault
Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement (LBD)
CNRS, UPMC, UMR 7622
INSERM ERL U1156
IBPS (Institut Biologie Paris Seine)
Campus de Jussieu
9 Quai Saint-Bernard, Bâtiment C, 6E, Case 24
75252 Paris Cedex 05 France

米国ウッズホールにおいてImaging Workshopが開催されます。
今回から参加費の全額もしくは半額程度の免除制度が作られました。
（日本など遠方からの参加には特にメリットが大きいと思い、この点を強調して先日要望を出していました。）
Markoが交渉してMBLからの全面的なサポートを受けて実現していますので、今後開催される他のworkshopでも継続的に免除制度が設けられると聞いています。

日本からの参加者によるミーティングレポートを掲載していますのでご覧ください。
国内の講習会とは違った刺激を受けることができるはずです。

両生類研究施設・鈴木厚



Hello All
This is the first announcement of the next Advanced Imaging Workshop to be held at the MBL. The dates have been set; it will be held Nov 15-22. This will be an excellent workshop for those interested in enhancing their imaging capabilities in Xenopus by learning from the masters.
I have a few full tuition scholarships available and several half scholarships. These are being offered to those individuals who need assistance. For more information please contact me.

I look forward to seeing many of you in November. More information will follow in the coming months.

Sincerely,

Marko Horb

PS If you fancy staying on longer you can take advantage of our Research Hotel service and use many NXR resources, such as genome editing.

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Marko Horb, Ph.D.
Director, National Xenopus Resource (NXR)
Marine Biological Laboratory
7 MBL Street
Woods Hole, MA 02543
http://www.mbl.edu/xenopus
https://twitter.com/xenopusnxr