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致同学们:
探索前沿领域,拓展国际视野!欢迎来自中国大陆和世界各地的优秀研究生和博士后走进复旦大学,参加我们令人兴奋的暑期学校项目。无论你是渴望开拓研究领域,还是希望与国际学者进行深入交流,我们为你提供了一个独特的学习和交流平台。
2023年暑期,经过精心筹备,复旦大学和西湖大学共同推出线下东方科学联合国际暑期学校(简称“国际暑期学校”)。本次国际暑期学校以生命科学为重点,旨在通过知名国际学者富有启发性的系统授课,将最前沿的生命科学研究进展带给来自中国和世界各地的优秀课程参与者,并互动交流学习。
国际暑期学校分别设置了研究生项目和本科生项目。其中, 研究生项目“复旦生命科学国际暑期学校”将于7月12日至8月6日在复旦大学举办,本科生项目“西湖大学生命科学国际暑期学校”将于2023年7月10日至23日在西湖大学举办。
项目须知
本次国际暑期学校的研究生项目由 复旦大学主办,复旦大学生命科学学院承办。
本项目的授课教师为20余位活跃在该领域学术前沿并有丰富教学经验的国际著名学者,计划从全球申请者中遴选100-200名优秀学员。
项目特色
多元化的学术课程
项目以 “生命科学的新纪元”为主题,聚焦遗传与发育这一生命探索的核心领域,并融合大数据、人工智能等科学前沿,设计了遗传与表观遗传学、细胞与发育生物学、生物大数据与计算生物学三个课程模块。
国际化的学术氛围
本项目汇聚国际 一流的师资,以国际化、前沿性、融合交叉为特色,为优秀学生拓宽视野、交流思想提供一流的学习平台。
除全英文集中授课外,国际暑期学校也将 组织口头报告/墙报等形式的研讨交流。
跨文化的交流机会
通过参观高科技企业,走进上海自然博物馆,暑期学员将开启奇妙的科学发现之旅,通过走进西塘古镇、南京路步行街等,体验充满魅力的中华文化。
本项目的具体信息可浏览复旦生命科学国际暑期学校主页https://fiss-lifesci.fudan.edu.cn 。
网上报名的截止时间为北京时间2023年6月8日18时整。
授课专家
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《 遗传学与表观遗传学 》
Prof. Jerry L. Workman
is the member of the American Academy of Arts. He is a Senior Investigator at the Stowers Institute, USA. Dr. Workman is a pioneering scientist and made significant contributions in the field of gene expression research by uncovering the pivotal role of histones in both DNA packaging into chromatin and the regulation of gene expression. His seminal work involved the identification of diverse histone- modifying enzyme complexes, which has since been regarded as a landmark discovery in the realm of gene expression studies. Jerry L. Workman's invaluable findings have greatly enhanced our understanding of the intricate mechanisms governing gene regulation. He received the Maximizing Investigator’ Research Award 2018 from National Institute of General Medical Sciences.
《 遗传学与表观遗传学 》
Prof. Yi Zhang
is the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the Fred Rosen Chair Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Zhang is an internationally renowned scientist in epigenetics. Over the last decade, he has made significant contributions to the epigenetic field by identifying and characterizing many chromatin modifying enzymes that include: 1) the nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase NuRD; 2) the H3K27me3 methyltransferase PRC2; 3) the ubiquitin E3 ligase PRC1; 4) the JmjC histone demethylases; and 5) the Tet family of 5mC dioxygenases and novel nucleotides 5fC and 5caC.
《 遗传学与表观遗传学 》
Prof. Bing Ren
is the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is currently the Director of Center for Epigenomics at UC San Diego, and Member of Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. Dr. Ren has been at the forefront of epigenomic research for over a decade. He has a long and influential record of scientific innovation and leadership as a driving force for multiple genomic consortia, including ENCODE, the NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Mapping Consortium, the International Human Epigenome Consortium, and the 4D Nucleome Consortium. Today, his laboratory is leading the study of how the epigenome regulates cellular function.
《 遗传学与表观遗传学 》
Prof. Xiang-Dong Fu
is the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the Chair Professor in Westlake University. Dr. Fu is a famous RNA biologist and a leading expert in neuron regeneration. He is responsible for co-discovery of SR proteins and discovery of a family of kinases specific for SR proteins, which are critical for RNA splicing. Dr. Fu’s research has been centered on understanding the functions of coding and non-coding RNAs in development and disease. His laboratory has also developed multiple technologies for high throughput analysis of gene expression, mRNA isoforms, and genomic interactions. One of their latest breakthroughs is the development of a new cellular reprogramming strategy to generate functional neurons from non-neuronal cells and the application of this approach to reverse the disease phenotype in a Parkinson’s disease model.
《 遗传学与表观遗传学 》
Prof. Bin Tian
is a professor and Program Co-Leader of Gene Expression & Regulation Program in Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center. He is also the Co-director of the Center for Systems & Computational Biology at Wistar Institute. Prof. Tian is a molecular systems biologist whose research is focused on understanding how gene expression is regulated at the RNA level. His lab was among the first to discover the widespread nature of alternative polyadenylation (APA) using bioinformatic and genomic approaches. They have also revealed multiple molecular mechanisms that regulate APA and cellular functions of APA isoforms in a number of biological systems.
《 遗传学与表观遗传学 》
Prof. Ting Wang
is the Sanford and Karen Loewentheil Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Prof. Ting Wang is an internationally recognized geneticist for his research on genetic and epigenetic impact of transposable elements on gene regulation. His lab developed widely-used DNA methylomics technologies, and apply integrative methods combining experimental and computational technologies for studying the evolution and adaption of human regulatory networks, particularly on the impact of these processes on human health and disease. His lab is home to the WashU Epigenome Browser, utilized by various large genomic dataset Consortia including the NIH Roadmap Epigenome Project, ENCODE Project, 4D Nucleome Project, and TaRGET Project. He currently directs the NIH 4D Nucleome Network Data Coordination and Integration Center and the NIEHS Environmental Epigenomics Data Center, and co-lead the latest Human Pangenome project.
《遗传学与表观遗传学》
Prof. Dinshaw J. Patel
is the member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Chair in Experimental Therapeutics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and is a faculty member in the Structural Biology Program at the Sloan-Kettering Institute (SKI), USA. He has spent his career investigating structure-based mechanistic insights underlying biological macromolecular interactions, including the CRISPR-Cas and cGAS-STING surveillance pathways, histone and DNA methylation in epigenetic regulation and RNA-mediated processes ranging from riboswitches and ribozymes to those governing siRNA and piRNA pathways. He is the recipient of the inaugural C.C. Tan Life Science International Collaboration Award.
《 细胞与发育 》
Prof. Jinsong Li
is a professor of Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021. Li obtained his PhD degree from Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences followed by postdoctoral training at Rockefeller University before joining Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology in 2007. His research mainly focuses on stem cells and embryonic development. He has made fundamental contributions to the establishment of androgenetic haploid embryonic stem cells (also termed sperm-like stem cells or artificial spermatids) that can be used as sperm replacement for efficient production of semi-cloned mice (so called SC technology). Li has made great efforts to promote the applications of SC technology and shown that it can be used for complex genetic analyses in mice, including efficient generation of mouse models carrying defined point mutations related to human developmental defects; one-step generation mouse models that mimic multiple genetic defects in diseases; and targeted screening of critical genes or nucleotides of a specific gene involved in a developmental process. Recently, Li initiated a project to tag every protein in mice based on SC technology (genome tagging project, GTP), which may enable the precise deion of protein atlas in mice.
《 细胞与发育 》
Prof. Norbert Perrimon
is the Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the member of National Academy of Sciences. He is the James Stillman Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Perrimon has 30 years of experience in the fields of developmental genetics, signal transduction and genomics. His group developed many methods that have significantly improved the Drosophila toolbox and has characterized many key components of signaling pathways. His group established high-throughput genome-wide RNAi screens and pooled CRISPR screens in various cell-based and in vivo assays. He also studies the roles of signaling pathways in homeostasis and tissue remodeling in muscles and gut stem cells, as well as hormonal systems involved in inter-organ communication. Dr. Perrimon has trained more than 100 students and postdoctoral fellows, most of whom currently hold academic positions.
《 细胞与发育 》
Prof. Philip A. Beachy
is the member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the member of National Academy of Sciences. He is currently the director of Siebel Investigator Program, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, and the Ernest and Amelia Gallo Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Beachy is a world leading developmental biologist. His research interests mainly focus on functional characterization of Hedgehog proteins and other extracellular signals in morphogenesis and in injury repair and regeneration. He also studies the functional roles of various signaling molecules in stem cell physiology and how they can induce cancer stem cells. He discovered how Cyclopamine and Smoothened are related to Itraconazole, thus linking diverse fields of scientific research.
《 细胞与发育 》
Prof. Jin Jiang
is a professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center and McDermott Scholar in Medical Research. Dr. Jiang is a world-leading developmental biologist. His research interests mainly focus on the signal transduction pathways involved in embryonic development, tumorigenesis and stem cell maintenance. He has been carrying out systematic genetic screens to identify genes controlling pattern formation and growth of Drosophila adult organs, and has identified many novel components in the Hedgehog, Wnt, and Hippo signaling pathways. In particular, he made a number of pioneering discoveries in the field of Hedgehog signaling. He discovered the important role of cAMP-dependent protein kinase PKA in Hedgehog signal transduction, and analyzed the regulatory mechanism of Smo protein phosphorylation and activation. He received Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Scholar Award 2003.
《 细胞与发育 》
Prof. Liqun Luo
is the member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the member of National Academy of Sciences. He is the Ann and Bill Swindells Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Biology, Professor of Neurobiology at Stanford University, and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Luo has dedicated himself to developmental neurobiology research for a long time and is internationally renowned for his work in the field of synaptic branching, which is crucial for the establishment and maintenance of neural circuits. He made significant contributions to the understanding of molecular mechanisms underlying synaptic branching development using fruit flies, and discovered striking similarities between this branching mechanism and the weakening phenomenon observed in mammalian synapses after damage. His remarkable achievements have greatly advanced the fields of neural development, neural network formation, and the technological development of organizational neuroscience.
《 细胞与发育 》
Prof. Lieping Chen
is the Member of National Academy of Sciences. He is the United Technologies Corporation Professor in Cancer Research and Professor in Yale University. Dr. Chen is an internationally renowned scientist in caner immunobiology and a leading expert in immune co-stimulatory and inhibitory molecules. He discovered the immune checkpoint molecule PD-L1, and has elucidated the PD-L1-mediated evasion mechanism by which cancer cells avoid immune killing. Dr. Chen also pioneered the cancer immunotherapy strategy with anti-PD-1/PD-L1 antibody, which has revolutionized cancer treatment ever since.
《 进化与计算生物学 》
Prof. Li Jin
is the President of Fudan University, professor of genetics in Fudan University. Professor Li Jin is a leading scientist of the model of recent African origin of modern humans and the study of human phenomics. His research encompasses genetic structure and migrations of human populations, genetics of human complex diseases and computational biology. He has served as a board member of HUGO, co-founded Genographic Project, Pan-Asian SNP Consortium, and International Human Phenome Consortium (IHPC), and co-founded National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, Shanghai International Human Phenome Institute. He received numerous well-known awards including State Award of Natural Sciences twice, C.C. Tan Life Science Achievement Award, Distinguished Academic Achievement Award of Human Genome Organization (HUGO), Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Ho-Leung-Ho-Lee Foundation.
《 进化与计算生物学 》
Prof. Mark Stoneking
is the member of the National Academy of Sciences, the group leader of Human Population History Group at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. His research interests involve using molecular genetic methods to address questions of anthropological interests concerning the origins, migrations, and relationships of human populations, and the influence of selection during human evolution. He, along with his doctoral advisor Allan Wilson, contributed to the Out of Africa Theory in 1987 by introducing the concept of Mitochondrial Eve, a hypothetical common mother of all living humans based on mitochondrial DNA.
《 进化与计算生物学 》
Prof. Scott V. Edwards
is the member of National Academy of Sciences, the member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the fellow of American Association of the Advancement of Science, the fellow of American Philosophical Society and the fellow of American Ornithologists’ Union. Prof. Edwards’ research focuses on the evolutionary biology of birds. He is one of the founders of the species tree theory and methods based on the multispecies coalescent model, and produced some of the first continent-wide phylogeographic analyses based on DNA sequencing, which have currently been widely applied in phylogenomics. He helped develop the House Finch (Haemorhous mexicanus) as an emerging model system for studying the evolutionary consequences of pathogens on animal hosts. Comparative genomics analyses published by Prof. Edwards’ team suggested that the evolution of genes involved in feather formation occurred much earlier than the common ancestor of modern birds, supporting the hypothesis that non-avian dinosaurs had feathers.
《 进化与计算生物学 》
Prof. Jean Yang
is a professor at University of Sydney. She is an applied statistician with expertise in statistical bioinformatics. She was awarded the 2015 Moran Medal in statistics from the Australian Academy of Science in recognition of her work on developing methods for molecular data arising in cutting edge biomedical research. Her research stands at the interface between medicine and methodology development and has centered on the development of methods and the application of statistics to problems in omics and biomedical research. She has made contributions to the development of novel statistical methodology and software for the design and analysis of high-throughput biotechnological data including that from microarrays, mass spectrometry and next-generation sequencing. Recently, much of her focus is on integration of multiple biotechnologies with clinical data to answer a variety of scientific questions. This includes developing various approaches and methodologies in statistical machine learning and network analysis.
《 进化与计算生物学 》
Prof. Roded Sharan
is a professor in School of Computer Science at Tel-Aviv University. He has developed multiple highly-cited algorithms for modelling gene expression data, mutational data and constructed network models that are in broad use in the field of computational biology. His research focuses on networks- and clustering-based approaches, and applying graph algorithmic and machine learning techniques to mine biological data and extract patterns of biological significance. His most cited paper has received over 1000 citations to date. He received the Wolf Foundation Krill Prize, Test of Time Awards in RECOMB'16 and RECOMB'17, the Thomson-Reuters Highly Cited Researcher Award and the Kadar Prize 2007.
《 进化与计算生物学 》
Prof. Dong Xu
is the Curators' Distinguished Professor, Paul K. and Dianne Shumaker Professor at University of Missouri-Columbia. Dong Xu has conducted research in many areas of computational biology and bioinformatics, including single-cell data analysis, protein structure prediction and modeling, protein post-translational modifications, protein localization prediction, computational systems biology, biological information systems, and bioinformatics applications in human, microbes, and plants over the past 30 years. His research since 2012 has focused on the interface between bioinformatics and deep learning. He has published more than 400 papers with more than 21,000 citations and an H-index of 73 according to Google Scholar.
《 进化与计算生物学 》
Prof. Jian Ma
is the fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Ray and Stephanie Lane Professor in School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Prof. Ma develops machine learning algorithms to study the structure and function of the human genome and cell organization, as well as their implications for evolution, health, and disease. During his Ph.D. and postdoc training, he developed algorithms to reconstruct the ancestral mammalian genome. His research group has recently pioneered a series of new machine learning methods for 3D epigenomics and spatial genomics. He leads an NIH 4D Nucleome Center, and has received several awards, including being named “Tomorrow’s PI” by Genome Technology (2011), the National Science Foundation CAREER award (2011), and the Guggenheim Fellowship (2020).
《 进化与计算生物学 》
Prof. Igor Ulitsky
is a distinguished researcher specializing in non-coding RNA from Weizmann Institute of Science. His groundbreaking work focuses on unraveling the roles of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in various biological processes and diseases. Through innovative approaches, His studies on lncRNA behavior showed that some lncRNAs affect the regulation of genes found within close physical proximity in the genome, whereas others control thousands of genes at a distance, in part during the maturation of their sequences. These discoveries have unlocked the potential of using lncRNAs as both therapeutic agents and targets with promising leads for the treatment of diseases such as cancer, brain injury, and epilepsy. Ulitsky's expertise bridges genomics and molecular biology, positioning him as a leading figure in the field of non-coding RNA research.
《 进化与计算生物学 》
Prof. Chaolin Zhang
is currently working in Department of Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Motor Neuron Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He is a renowned and highly accomplished RNA biologist, recognized for his exceptional expertise in deciphering the RNA splicing code. His laboratory employs a highly integrative and multidisciplinary approach, combining high-throughput biochemistry, genomics, and computational methodologies to dissect the intricate RNA regulatory networks within the nervous system. Furthermore, his research endeavors encompass the translation of fundamental discoveries into RNA-based precision medicine solutions for neurodevelopmental disorders. Chaolin’s research has made significant contributions to the field by mapping protein-RNA interactions with remarkable precision at the single-nucleotide level. These advancements have significantly enhanced our understanding of the specificities exhibited by RNA-binding proteins and the fundamental organizational principles governing neuronal RNA regulatory networks. Prof. Zhang received Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA/R35, 2022) from NIH, and Scientific Innovations Award from the Brain Research Foundation (2023).
报名须知
1.申请人条件
全球范围内,生命科学相关专业的在读硕士研究生、博士研究生、博士后。
2.费用说明
暑期学校免收学费,提供参加学校活动的餐食,并协助预定住宿,住宿费和交通费用自理。
奖学金:暑期学校项目将遴选约20位优秀学员,提供奖学金,用于分担国际国内旅费和住宿费。具体可咨询项目联系人。
3.申请流程
中国大陆学生请登录http://register.fudan.edu.cn/,线上填写报名信息并上传英文或中文的个人简历。截止时间:北京时间2023年6月8日18时整。预计6月12日将以邮件方式通知遴选结果。
4.联系方式
联系人:戴郁青
电子邮件: fissl@fudan.edu.cn
联系人:孙学会
电子邮件: xhsun@fudan.edu.cn
2023年复旦生命科学国际暑期学校网站:
https://fiss-lifesci.fudan.edu.cn
西湖大学生命科学国际暑期学校项目
本次国际暑期学校的 本科生项目由西湖大学主办,西湖大学生命科学学院承办。该项目聚焦生命科学发展前沿,邀请十余位享誉国际学术界的生命科学相关领域知名专家学者讲授高水平学科前沿课程,帮助学生了解生命科学最前沿学科动态和发展趋势,推动学生理解科学逻辑,学习研究范式。
除高水平学科前沿课程外,项目还将与清华—北大生命科学联合中心合作,为学生提供科学实验项目体验;并将组织学生参访相关领域尖端实验室、科研机构和核心企业,开展包括遗址参观、传统文化体验、高水平文艺演出在内的文化体验活动。
本项目拟面向全球招收学员100名。项目免收学费,提供参加学校活动的餐食和住宿。西湖大学将为优秀学生提供一定额度的奖学金,支持学生分担项目相关旅费。
具体信息可浏览西湖大学官网https://www.westlake.edu.cn/news_events/westlakenews/summerschool.html。
报名申请截止时间为北京时间2023年6月10日17时整。
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