Participants will learn the basic principles of High-Throughput Microscopy (HTM) applied to RNAi and drug screening. The workshop takes the form of a small HTM project: participants will be introduced to the theory of HTM, involved in discussions on how to design a RNAi/drug screen, perform an actual HTM experiment (including a bioassay and automated image acquisition), perform image analysis and statistical data analysis. Some applications of HTM will be highlighted on research seminars.

Application deadline: 18 May 2018.

The Workshop in Integrative Approaches in Neurodegeneration is organized in the frame of the FlySMALS consortium, funded by the 2013 JPND Transnational call for “European research projects for Cross-Disease Analysis of Pathways related to Neurodegenerative Diseases”, which come to an end this year.

Por Daniel Olivença (BioISI / FCUL).

Por Patrick Hussey, PhD (Department of Biosciences, Durham University).

Por Gabriela Gomes (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK / Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto).

Por Colin Adrain, PhD (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência).