DMMC COURSES & WORKSHOPS

TECHNIQUES & STRATEGIES IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Mon 12 Dec - Thu 15 Dec 2005 (1330-1700 each day)
Venue: Albert Lecture Theatre, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (location)

Online application is closed
(Online application period: 7 Nov - 5 Dec 2005)

This course, running over four consecutive afternoons, is designed to give bioscientists and clinicians a broad overview of research techniques and their application. Basic molecular biology laboratory experience is assumed, but you should not need prior knowledge of the techniques covered in the course.

The objective for postgraduate teaching is to give students a broad basic knowledge of bioscience research techniques and technologies, including those not currently used in their own project/laboratory that may be of future use. We recommend that postgraduate students attend the whole course (DMMC Course Attendance Certificates are only provided for complete attendance).

Follow the links below to read an abstract of each lecture

ANALYSING GENES (Mon 12 Dec; 1330-1700)
Session Chair: Dr Ross McManus, TCD
1330 RNA detection and quantitation
         Dr Nicholas Sweeney, UCD abstract
1415 Differential gene expression: overview of
         relevant methods  Dr William Gallagher, UCD
         abstract
1500 Coffee/Tea
1530 Mutation detection, SNP analysis and genetic
         linkage  Prof Denis Shields, UCD abstract
1615 Model organisms
         Dr Breandán Kennedy, UCD abstract

MANIPULATING GENES (Tue 13 Dec; 1330-1700)
Session Chair: Dr Ross McManus, TCD
1330 DNA cloning strategies
         Dr Ross McManus, TCD abstract
1415 RNA interference  Dr Steven Gray, TCD abstract
1500 Coffee/Tea.
1530 Transgenics and knockouts
         Dr Derek Brazil, UCD abstract
1615 Molecular therapies - false hope or the future
         of medicine?  Prof Mark Lawler, TCD abstract

PROTEINS (Wed 14 Dec; 1330-1700)
Session Chair: Dr Niamh Moran, RCSI
1330 Protein expression and purification
         Dr Henry Windle, TCD abstract
1415 Determining protein:protein interactions in
         biology  Dr Niamh Moran, RCSI abstract
1500 Coffee/Tea
1530 Introduction to Mass Spectrometry
         Dr Achim Treumann, RCSI abstract
1615 Expression proteomics: biomedical applications
         Prof Stephen Pennington, UCD

CELLS & TISSUES (Thu 15 Dec; 1330-1700)
Session Chair: Dr Clare O’Connor, UCD
1330 Immunodetection methods on cell and tissue
         extracts  Dr Leonie Young, UCD abstract
1415 Cell imaging and sorting – flow cytometry
         Dr William Watson, UCD abstract
1500 Coffee/Tea
1530 Fluorescent nanoparticle probes for high
         content screening, imaging and diagnostic
         applications  Dr Yuri Volkov, TCD abstract
1615 Laser Capture Microdissection and in situ
         hybridisation  Dr Orla Sheils, TCD abstract
         (Final lecture cancelled due to circumstances beyond
         our control)