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SUMMARY:2010 International Graduate Training Course in Antarctic Biology
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DESCRIPTION:\n\nDeadline for receipt of completed applications:  1 August 2009\n\n"Integrative Biology and Adaptation of Antarctic  Marine Organisms" McMurdo Station, Antarctica January 2010   \n\nThe National Science Foundation (NSF) announces a special month-long course  on advanced biology, "Integrative Biology and Adaptation of Antarctic Marine  Organisms." The course will be held in Antarctica at McMurdo  Station for one month, starting in January 2010. This is an international course,  open to all nationalities.\n\nApplications are invited from graduate  students currently enrolled in a PhD program, postdoctoral fellows, and  early-career faculty who are interested in the study of extreme environments and  the biology of antarctic organisms. Full scholarships are available for  each participant accepted into the course to cover the cost of travel from  their home institution to McMurdo Station and room and board while in  Antarctica.\n\nThe emphasis of this advanced course is on integrative  biology, with laboratory- and field-based projects focused on biological  adaptations in an extreme environment, and an emphasis on rapid climate change  in the polar regions. A diverse teaching faculty will offer students the  opportunity to study a wide range of Antarctic organisms (bacteria/archaea,  algae, invertebrates, and fish), as well as to study several different levels of  biological analysis (molecular biology, biomechanics, physiological ecology,  species diversity, and evolution).\n\nThe following faculty will participate:Dr. Donal Manahan, Course Director, University of Southern California -- Invertebrate development and molecular physiologyDr. Mark Denny, Stanford University -- Biomechanics and environmental physicsDr. Deneb Karentz, University of San Francisco -- Photobiology and phytoplankton ecologyDr. Alison Murray, University of Nevada -- Microbial ecology and genomicsDr. George Somero, Stanford University -- Biochemical adaptation  \n\nThe deadline for receipt of  completed applications is Saturday, 1 August 2009. For more  information, including application details, please go to: http://antarctica.usc.edu.    \n\n\n\nContacts\nDr. Donal Manahan, Course Director, manahan@usc.edu\n\nView this event on the NSF web site at: http://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115160&org=NSF
LOCATION:McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica
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