Eighth International Long-Oligonucleotide Microarray Workshop

January 6-11, 2008
The University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

This workshop will comprise a combination of lectures and hand-on laboratory sessions. The participants will primarily employ Arabidopsis and maize (plant side) and human, bovine and porcine (animal side)  whole genome 70-mer oligonucleotide microarrays in their laboratory work (for details of the plant arrays see http://www.ag.arizona.edu/microarray and http://www.maizearray.org/.

The workshop will be divided into two parts: Part I (Sunday 4PM to Wednesday 5PM) will cover wet-lab aspects of microarray target production and amplification, microarray hybridization, and scanning. Part II (all day, Thursday and Friday) will concentrate on data extraction, statistical analysis, and experimental design. Together these topics are aimed at the goal of the participants obtaining optimal results using oligonucleotide-based microarrays. Part II may be taken separately.

Specific topics to be covered include:

* Experimental design.
* Probe preparation and microarray printing.
* Microarray rehydration and probe immobilization.
* Target preparation, including RNA extraction, direct and indirect labeling, and amplification techniques.
* Microarray hybridization.
* Array scanning and data extraction.
* Data analysis and archiving.

Registration (Part I plus Part II) is $675, which includes costs of the microarrays and other supplies that you will use. Part II registration only is $275. Part I participants will be limited to 30 on a first-come, first-serve basis. Overall participation will be limited to 40 individuals.

Note:  There are a number of airline connections from Tucson to San Diego on Friday evening, allowing workshop participants convenient access to the Plant and Animal Genome XVI Meeting (January 12-16).

For further details and to register, please contact David Galbraith (galbraith@arizona.edu)
 
David W. Galbraith
Professor of Plant Sciences and The Bio5 Institute
University of Arizona
Department of Plant Sciences
303 Forbes Building
Tucson Arizona 85721 USA
Tel: (520) 621-9153
Fax: (520) 621-7186