Spatial analysis of gene expression in tissues

Registration includes:

• Accommodation. Hotel rooms are pre-booked.
• Breakfast and lunch
• Course dinner
• Course material

Payment

KTH Royal Institute of Technology sends out invoices to the selected participants.

Payment details/instructions will be sent to selected participants.

Selection criteria

Candidates will be chosen based on their motivation letter and their CV with their current knowledge and experience, the relevance of the course to their scientific project, and their publication list.

The course has multi-disciplinary activities including lectures, wet-lab work, imaging sessions, and bioinformatic data analysis.

The emphasis of the selection will be placed on knowledge and experience in wet-lab (standard molecular biology) techniques as well as intermediate-level of knowledge and experience in dry-lab methods (handling of bioinformatics tools relevant to sequence analysis, design of molecular probes, etc.).

Relevance to their research project is also considered.

Having some of the following experiences would be advantageous: i) Tissue handling (sectioning) and processing techniques; ii) immunohistochemistry or FISH; iii) any advanced microscopy methods; iv) high-end image processing and analysis tools; (v) experience in single-cell genomics methods.

Applicants need to provide

1. CV
2. Motivation letter

Travel Grants and Registration Fee Waivers

A limited number of travel grants and registration fee waivers are available for participants.

Applicants do not need to apply separately for these but should indicate on the registration form if they wish to be considered.

Selection of awardees is handled directly by the organizers. Priority is given to participants of any nationality working in laboratories in Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey, as well as from EMBC Associate Member States Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan. More information is available on the EMBO Travel Grants' page.

Child care grant

EMBO Courses and Workshops offers grants to offset additional child care costs incurred by participants or speakers when participating at any EMBO Courses and Workshop funded meeting. Eligible costs include fees for a caregiver or child-care facility, travel costs for a caregiver, or travel costs for taking the child to the meeting etc. Please indicate on the registration form whether you would like to be considered for the grant. Please also describe how you intend to use the child care grant and specify the sum that you will need.