Meetings & Courses Program

Crossroads of Biology

High Throughput Neuroanatomy
October 17 - 29 2024

Key Dates:
Application Deadline:  August 09, 2024
Arrival: October 17th by 6pm EST
Departure: October 29th around 12pm 

CSHL Courses are intensive, running all day and often including evenings and weekends; students are expected to attend all sessions and reside on campus for the duration of the course.

Instructors:
Xiaoyin Chen, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Laura DeNardo, University of California Los Angeles
Justus Kebschull, Johns Hopkins University
Lindsay Schwarz, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital


Modern high-throughput neuroanatomical tools—including but not limited to barcode-based tracing methods—allow unprecedented insight into the structure of the nervous system. Their use, however, is currently restricted to small set of expert laboratories. This limited uptake is not due to an inherent cost or difficulty of these techniques, but rather due to a lack of training opportunities. In this new CSHL course, we aim to teach the core skills required for successfully applying a range of modern neuroanatomical techniques. We will cover viral tracing tools, including anterograde, retrograde, and transsynaptic tracers, brain clearing and whole brain analysis of axonal data, MAPseq and BARseq, as well as RNA in situ sequencing technologies. In practicals, students will learn how to prepare virus, how to acquire and analyze whole-brain volumetric axon tracing data, and how to perform a BARseq2 experiment. After completing this course, we expect students to have the skills to implement a range of cutting-edge neuroanatomical techniques in their own labs.

2024 Speakers:
DJ Bambah-Mukka, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA 
Edward Boyden, MIT, HHMI, Cambridge, MA 
Martha Farah, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA* 
Oliver Hobert, Columbia University College of P&S, New York, NY 
Gilles Laurent, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany 
Liqun Luo, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 
Jing Ren, The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge, United Kingdom 
Bosiljka Tasic, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA 
Xiao Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 
Anthony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 
Petr Znamenskiy, The Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom 



Support & Stipends

We would like to acknowledge the following companies for equipment loans and technical support:
Equipment: Epredia, Leica Biosystems, Miltenyi Biotec, Nikon Instruments, SEPS Services

Stipends are available to offset tuition costs as follows:

        

Please indicate your eligibility for funding in your stipend request submitted when you apply to the course. Stipend requests do not affect selection decisions made by the instructors.

Cost (including board and lodging): $4,050 USD

No fees are due until you have completed the full application process and are accepted into the course. 

Before applying, ensure you have (all due July 15):
  1. Personal statement/essay;
  2. Letter(s) of recommendation;
  3. Curriculum vitae/resume (optional);
  4. Financial aid request (optional).
    More details.

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