Day

Topic

Morning

Afternoon

Evening

0 - Saturday

Arrival and Orientation

 

Check in

- Welcome

- Overview + Goals

- Mixer

1 - Sunday

Flies and Imaging

Lecture: Imaging 101; Intro to Microscopes

Microscope tour continued;

Lecture: Drosophila development.

Fly staging, mounting, imaging of 鈥榰nknowns鈥

- Student lightning talks or poster session.

2 - Monday

Parhyale and Flies

Lecture: Parhyale Hox genes.

Fly imaging continued

Lecture: Intro to FIJI;

Students process and present data

Lecture: Intro to Zebrafish

3 - Tuesday

Zebrafish

Lecture: Egg to Gastrula

Zebrafish early stages

(up to 24 h)

Zebrafish facility tour

-Larvae; Transgenic 鈥榰nknowns鈥;

Intro to microinjection; [line scanning confocal]

Time lapse imaging of transgenic zebrafish 

4 - Wednesday

Zebrafish 2

Zebrafish microinjections and Intro to CRISPR

Rare books tour

Transgenic images;

Cell transplantation; photoconversion

Lecture: Intro to Nematostella

Time lapse imaging of photoconversions

5 - Thursday

Nematostella

Nematostella experiments

MRC tour;

Nematostella continued

Lecture: Butterfly structural color

Butterfly Collection visit

Imaginal Disk dissections

6 - Friday

Nematostella 2

Nematostella continued

Project selection, and planning

Intro to Cephalopods

7 - Saturday

Skates and Cephs

Skate 101- lecture and lab

Cephalopods / Skates

Cephalopod time lapses

8 - Sunday

DAY OFF

     

9 - Monday

Independent
Projects

     

10 - Tuesday

Independent
Projects

[GEMMA collections boat trip  1]

 

Guest Lecture

11 鈥 Wednesday

Independent
Projects

[GEMMA collections boat trip  2]

   

12 - Thursday

Independent
Projects

   

Guest Lecture

13 - Friday

Independent
Projects

 

Wrap up projects

Lab Tidy

Groups plan their presentations

14 - Saturday

Presentation Day

Finalize presentations

Presentations

Lab Tidy

Dinner celebration

15 - Sunday

 

Leave for airport