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This course is free for UK researchers whose scientific interests fall within the remit of the Natural Environment Research Council. Most participants have applied for access to the training and facilities at the NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility (formerly the Molecular Genetics Facility) but this is not always necessary.
Course contents
This course consists of a week of practical work and is aimed at giving you basic molecular skills, in particular fluorescent microsatellite genotyping. The course is quite informal and flexible so we can also touch on sequencing/ AFLP etc if required, as well as looking at individual projects.
Bird PCR sex-typing techniques are included and we encourage participants to whom this is relevant to bring aliquots of their bird blood samples so they can PCR sex-type them during the course.
The course includes time for specific project trouble-shooting if required. Please see the example schedule for more information.
We would appreciate NBAF-S being acknowledged in outputs resulting from this training.
Dates
Courses are held each year in the Spring and Winter, with an additional course often provided in the Summer.
The next course will be held in Spring 2012.
For those who have successfully applied for access to the Facility, the date of the course you attend should ideally be immediately before you intend to begin to perform your own genotyping. In this way the training provided on the course is reinforced.
If you wish to attend a course, please complete the registration form in which you are asked to provide a brief introduction to your project and advise us of the techniques in which you hope to obtain training. Please return the form to Dr Deborah Dawson who will confirm your attendance by letter.
For further information and finalised dates of future courses, please contact Dr Deborah Dawson.
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