Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science
June 30 - July 20, 2023

Key Dates:
Application DeadlineMarch 15, 2023
Arrival: June 29th by 6pm EST
Departure: July 20th around 12pm EST

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:
Siobhan Brady, University of California, Davis
Niko Geldner
, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Julie Law, The Salk institute

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COVID-19: All participants planning to attend in-person will be required to attest to recent COVID vaccination (within one year of the course’s start date) with an FDA or WHO approved vaccine. Additional safety measures will be in line with current NY and Federal Guidelines applicable in Summer 2023.

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Read an article on peer review written by the 2018 students and teaching assistants.

The Frontiers and Techniques in Plant Science course provides an intensive overview of topics in genomics, genetics, physiology, biochemistry, development, and evolution and hands-on experiences in molecular, imaging, computational and high throughput approaches to understanding plant biology. It emphasizes recent results from model organisms including Arabidopsis and maize as well as a variety of other plants and provides an introduction to current methods used in basic and applied plant biology, both theoretically and practically.

The seminar series will include plant morphology and anatomy, development, evolution, light and mechanical biology, hormones, small RNAs and epigenetic inheritance, biotic and abiotic interactions, plant biochemistry, crop domestication, and applications addressing current agronomic problems. Speakers will provide expert overviews of their fields, followed by in-depth discussions of their own work.

The laboratory sessions will provide exposure to cutting edge experimental and computational techniques currently used in plant research. These include approaches for studying plant development, regulatory networks, transient gene expression, cell-type specific gene expression analysis, computational large-scale data analysis, applications of fluorescent proteins including live imaging, genome editing, and chromatin immunoprecipitation.

Gain hands-on experience in:
  • Computational tools and programming
  • Plant imaging and image analysis
  • Synthetic Biology
  • Transcriptomics
  • Single cell sequencing
  • Gene network analysis and data visualization tools
  • Mathematical modeling of development and hormone action
  • Purification of cell-type specific nuclei (INTACT)
  • Genome editing
  • Scientific Publishing

2023 Guest Speakers:
Julia Bailey-Serres, University of California, Riverside
Madelaine Bartlett, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Emmanuelle Bayer
, University of Bordeaux, France
Jennifer Brophy
, Stanford University
C. Robin Buell
, University of Georgia
Sean Cutler, University of California, Riverside
Roger Deal, Emory University
Liam Dolan
, Gregor Mendel Institute, Austria
Xinnian Dong,
Duke University
Aman Husbands
, University of Pennsylvania
David Jackson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Alexander Jones, University of Cambridge, UK
Sharon Kessler,
Purdue University
Robert Martienssen
, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory/HHMI
David Mendoza-Cozatl, University of Missouri
Uta Paszkowski, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Ullas Pedmale, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Jonathan Preall
, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Nicholas Provart
, University of Toronto, Canada
Neelima Sinha
, University of California, Davis
Chris Surridge
, SpringerNature, UK
Robertas Ursache, Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG)
Daniel Voytas, University of Minnesota
Jason Williams
, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Support & Stipends:

Major support provided by: National Science Foundation.

We would like to acknowledge the following companies that provided invaluable support:
Microscopes:
Morrell Instruments Co, Inc, Nikon Instruments, Inc
Equipment:
Bitplane, Thermo Fisher Scientific


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): $5,500

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

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