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First Research
Skills Training Workshop
FUNGI AS A CLINICAL PROBLEM
30th March - 3rd April 2009
*** The deadline for this event has now passed. Please check the website for details of future training workshops ***
The European FINSysB Network is an interdisciplinary research programme focussing on the molecular interactions between the medically important fungus Candida albicans and its human host during disease progression. Our aim is to generate bright, ambitious and well-trained young researchers with multidisciplinary skills in this field. Therefore our research programme is supplemented by a strong, multidisciplinary training programme in research skills and complementary transferrable skills.
We are able to offer a small number of places to external participants on our Research Skills Training Workshop on Fungi as a Clinical Problem, to be held at Aberdeen University, UK. A small number of grants are available to support applicants.
This five day course will include:
• a lecture series to guide students from the diagnosis and treatment of fungal infections through to comparative genomics and fungal epidemiology
• laboratory training in fungal identification, susceptibility testing and multi-locus sequence typing
Training will be provided by internationally renowned researchers who will include Frank Odds, Dominique Sanglard, Bernhard Hube, Christophe d’Enfert and Al Brown. This will be an excellent opportunity for young researchers to meet other fungal pathogen experts.
Applicants should send their application letter, a CV of not more than two pages, and two references to Dr Emily Swaine [e.k.swaine@abdn.ac.uk] by 2nd February 2009. If financial support is being sought, the application letter should include a justification of this request.