Training a new generation of scientists with expertise in establishing and using tools for studying gene function in emerging model organisms
The core aim of this RTG is to train a new generation of scientists in the unusually broad range of techniques required to realize the new opportunities provided by emerging model systems. The biology students will apply emerging tools such as single molecule in situ hybridizations and in vivo imaging, will perform genome editing to generate transgenic animals and use RNAi gene knock-down experiments to study the function of individual genes. Importantly, the students will join the GönomiX’s team ongoing efforts of establishing novel methodology in emerging model systems. Further, they will become experts for GRN and gene function research by applying a selection of transcriptomics, single cell sequencing, open chromatin and 3D chromatin conformation analyses and perform the bioinformatics analysis of multi-omics data. The bioinformatics students will develop new methods for cross-species GRN comparison, which will be applied in collaboration to the biology students’ data.
