Glaciers have long been considered almost lifeless environments, but thi s view does not correspond to reality. In recent years, they have been reco gnized as ecosystems in their own right, teeming mostly with microbial life , but also hosting larger organisms. Our current knowledge of glacier ecosy stems is poor and fragmented. Most studies conducted so far focused on pecu liar supraglacial habitats and were restricted to specific taxa. The course is organised in two locations and will last 12 days. The venue for field a ctivities and some lectures is the Rifugio Branca in Santa Caterina Valfurv a (SO), Italy Alps. Alpine Guides and expert researchers will guide partici pant for sample collection in the National Stelvio Park. The venue for wet molecular laboratories, bioinformatics and statistics computer laboratories , practicals and other lectures is the University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
The focus of the course is to train young scientists with dif ferent backgrounds to interact with each other in planning and executing re search projects aiming at identifying the ecological processes of supraglac ial and proglacial ecosystems. The course will teach to reconstruct ecologi cal webs and other ecological relationships. It spans from sampling campaig n and traditional morphologic classification of organisms to sequencing, bi oinformatic and statistical elaboration of sequencing data.
R egistration includes:
It is p referable that participants bring their own equipment for the excursion on the glacier, namely mountaineering boots, crampons, climbing helmet, climbi ng harness, and an ice axe. An email containing details on the equipment is sue will be sent to participants in due time.
Payment
Upon acce ptance participants will be sent an email containing information about paym ent details. The following types of payment options will be available: invo ice, bank transfer, PayPal.
Selection criteria
Maximum 25 participants are allowed. Young career researchers, mainly PhD Students and post-doc can apply. Selection is based on the following criter ia:
Abstract gui delines
Abstracts must be written in English and do not exce ed 500 words.
Poster specifications
Virtual po ster session. 3 slides for 5 minutes presentation
Travel Gran ts and Registration Fee Waivers
A limited number of travel g rants and registration fee waivers are available for participants.
Ap plicants do not need to apply separately for these but should indicate on t he registration form if they wish to be considered.
Selection of awar dees is handled directly by the organizers. Priority is given to participan ts of any nationality working in laboratories in Croatia, Czech Republic, E stonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Slovaki a, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey, as well as from EMBC Associate Member States Chile, India, Singapore and Taiwan. More information is available on the < a href="https://www.embo.org/funding/lecture-travel-and-childcare-grants/tr avel-grants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">EMBO Travel Grants' page.< /p>
Child care grant
EMBO Courses a nd Workshops offers grants to offset additional child care costs incurred b y participants or speakers when participating at any EMBO Courses and Works hop funded meeting. Eligible costs include fees for a caregiver or child-ca re facility, travel costs for a caregiver, or travel costs for taking the c hild to the meeting etc. Please indicate on the registration form whether y ou would like to be considered for the grant. Please also describe how you intend to use the child care grant and specify the sum that you will need.< /p>
All further information can be found on the course websi te.
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