Minerva School 2018: Sociobiology and Sociogenomics
July 15-20, 2018
HaGoshrim, Israel
A workshop on the frontiers of social insect research with an emphasis on the application of omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics…)
- Phylogenomics and comparative genomics in the study of evolution of complexity and novelty
- Transcriptomics and regulatory networks in the study of SocioEvoDevo and indirect genetic effects
- Socio-physiology: hormones and neurons as links between genes and social behavior
- Emerging molecular technologies: CRISPR-Cas, epigenetics, miRNAs, microbiomes
Lectures will be accompanied with hands-on tutorials on the omics data analysis and a field trip. The School is primarily targeted at graduate students and postdocs.
Organizers:
Additional lecturers:
- Erich Bornberg-Bauer
- Sharoni Shafir
- Fabian Staubach
- Abraham Hefetz
- Erez Levanon
- Miriam Rosenberg
- Amir Cohanim