********************WorkshopsCourses******************** Dear all, there are still a few seats available for the online Physalia course on Spatial Omics in R/Bioconductor. Dates: 19-21 May Course website: ( https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/spatial-omics-1/ ) This course provides a comprehensive introduction to spatial omics, covering both imaging and sequencing methodologies. Participants will gain practical skills in data analysis, experimental design, and applying tidy data principles in R/Bioconductor. By the end of this course, attendees will be able to: - Understand spatial omics technologies and differentiate between imaging- and sequencing-based approaches.- Design and implement spatial omics experiments, considering key analytical and technical challenges. - Analyze sequencing-based spatial data using Bioconductor and Seurat in R.- Analyze imaging-based spatial data with MoleculeExperiment and Seurat.- Apply tidy data principles for spatial omics analysis using tidySpatialExperiment and tidySeurat.- Perform advanced spatial analyses, including spatial differential expression, cell-neighbor analysis, deconvolution, and multi-modality integration.- Interpret and extract biological insights from spatial omics datasets. For the full list of our courses and workshops, please visit: ( https://www.physalia-courses.org/courses-workshops/spatial-omics-1/ ) Best regards, Carlo Carlo Pecoraro, Ph.D Physalia-courses DIRECTOR info@physalia-courses.org mobile: +49 17645230846 ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/physalia-courses-a64418127/ ) "info@physalia-courses.org" (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca) ********************WorkshopsCourses******************** Berlin Summer Course in Flower Morphology and Angiosperm diversification 28 July - 8 August 2025 There are still some spaces on this exciting course. This is the third version of a highly successful two-week workshop based at the Biological Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Berlin Botanical Garden. The workshop benefits from extensive facilities, including functional microscopy laboratories and a huge plant collection of more than 20,000 species. The course is set up as lecture-based, laboratory taught, and interactive visits of the living collections. FORMAT: 2-week workshop, lectures and hands-on practical sessions. INTENDED AUDIENCE: Final year undergraduate students, PhD students, post-doctoral and advanced researchers, professionals (but no formal restriction). A basic knowledge of botany is preferred but not essential. COURSE INSTRUCTORS AND CONTACT: Dr. Louis Ronse De Craene, Research Associate Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (l.ronsedecraene@gmail.com) Prof. Julien Bachelier, Freie Universität Berlin (julien.bachelier@fu-berlin.de) REGISTRATION FEE: euro 800 ( euro 600 for Undergraduate and Master students) (Registration includes coffee breaks, daily lunches with snacks, but does not include travel and accommodation). HOW TO APPLY, PAY AND SECURE A PLACE: visit https://www.conftool.net/berlin-summer-course-2025/ For further information please contact Dr. Louis Ronse De Craene (l.ronsedecraene@gmail.com). PROGRAMME: Course Description and outline: This short course will introduce students to the structure and development of flowers, with a focus on floral diversity and evolution and the significance of flowers for systematics. Major plant families will be studied within the framework of the main lineages of seed plants to understand their evolution and diversification. Additionally, students will learn to analyse, describe, and study the structure of inflorescences, flowers, and fruits, and based on their observations, to identify the main evolutionary patterns underlying their tremendous morphological diversity, as well as their potential pollination and dispersal mechanisms. Course objectives and learning outcomes: Through this course students will acquire the following skills: - guidelines to identifying plants using morphological characters in the context of the molecular classification system. - a better understanding of the origin and evolution of floral structures, including their importance for classification, and of the main developmental patterns and evolutionary trends which underlie the tremendous diversity of reproductive structures. - an ability to observe and recognise key characters through the study of live floral material and the building up of floral diagrams. Contents: Introduction to morphology of vegetative structures and flowers, inflorescence and flower structure (floral diagrams and formulas). Overview of major groups of flowering plants; major characteristics of Flowers and special attributes (phyllotaxis, aestivation, merism, symmetry, floral tubes and hypanthia). Floral evolution of the major clades of angiosperms with special emphasis on morphological adaptations and diversification. The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is a charity registered in Scotland (No SC007983) | Support Us This notice applies to this email and to any other email subsequently sent by anyone at RBGE and appearing in the same chain of email correspondence. References below to "this email" should be read accordingly. This e-mail and its attachments (if any) are confidential, may be protected by copyright and may be privileged. If you receive this e-mail in error, notify us immediately by reply e-mail, delete it and do not use, disclose or copy it. Unless we expressly say otherwise in this e-mail, this e-mail does not create, form part of, or vary, any contractual or unilateral obligation. No liability is accepted for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any). 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Brooks, Fresh Pond Institute, USA Thibaut Brunet, Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR James DiFrisco, The Francis Crick Institute, UK Zena Hadjivasiliou, The Francis Crick Institute, UK Johannes Jaeger, University of Vienna, AT Ronald Jenner, Natural History Museum, London, UK Nicole King, University of California, Berkeley, USA Wallace Marshall, University of California, San Francisco, USA MIhaela Pavlicev, University of Vienna, AT Rashmi Priya, The Francis Crick Institute, UK Nicole Repina, Friedrich Miescher Institute, CH Merlijn Staps, Princeton University, USA Ben Steventon, University of Cambridge, UK G�nter Wagner, Yale University, USA *** REGISTRATION is open on EMBO's course website: https://meetings.embo.org/event/25-multi-level-reg-sys Applicants are required to submit an academic CV, and a motivation letter. You are also encouraged to submit an abstract if you would like to present your own work as an elevator pitch on the first day of the course. *** Application/abstract submission deadline: Mar 31, 2025. Applicants will be notified whether they have been accepted (or not) by Apr 30, 2025. The payment deadline for successful applicants is May 31, 2025. --- Course Description: Biological systems comprise multiple levels of organization, from molecules, organelles, and cells, to the multi-cellular structures that form whole tissues, organisms, and ultimately societies and ecosystems. During organismal development, these levels emerge from the dynamic interactions of system components and give rise to complex structures and functions across scales. Similarly, over the course of evolution, the emergence of phenotypes involves more than the transmission of genetic material, as selection works at all levels to generate novel phenotypes. However, we are only at the beginning of understanding how such levels of organization can emerge de novo in evolution or how levels self-organize and feed back on one another during growth and development. This is no simple task, as studying these fundamental questions in evolution and development requires quantification and modeling approaches that cross biological scales, alongside conceptual frameworks for understanding dynamical systems and emergent phenomena. To tackle the issue, we need novel, empirically grounded, systems-biology theories that integrate philosophical, mathematical, and experimental approaches across biological scales. During our lecture course, we will look at the emergence and evolution of multi-level regulatory systems from an interdisciplinary theoretical vantage point to assess the requirements, mechanisms, and consequences of multi-level phenomena. Specifically, we will focus on the following four questions: 1. How do new levels of organization (molecular, organelle, cellular, tissue, organismal, and beyond) originate and integrate in development and evolution? 2. What is the nature of causal-mechanistic interactions between levels of organization? 3. How do we measure and manipulate biological systems across multiple scales? 4. How can we model feedback interactions across different levels of organization in regulatory systems? Over recent years, it has become increasingly evident that dynamical processes, mechanical and physical forces, signaling feedback, and metabolic constraints play critical roles in patterning and coordinating emergent phenotypes. In addition, systems biology and metabolomics approaches, along with single-cell quantification of live or fixed samples, have revolutionized how we can empirically study emergent phenomena. Computational modeling and dynamical systems approaches have shed light on how network components and interactions can lead to spatial and temporal patterning, division of labor, and increased complexity and integration above the level of cells. A synthesis of these interdisciplinary approaches can now allow us to refine and develop new conceptual frameworks for understanding the mechanisms, and consequences, of multi-level processes in evolution and development. Follow @VeniceEvoDevo on BlueSky or Twitter for updates. On behalf of the organizers, Yogi Jaeger Dr. Johannes Jaeger Freelance Researcher, Philosopher & Educator Project Leader, JTF Project "Pushing the Boundaries", Dept of Philosophy, Uni Vienna Associate Faculty, Complexity Science Hub (CSH), Vienna In an attempt to de-google my life, I am shifting my email traffic to yoginho@protonmail.com. Please contact me there from now on. Johannes Jaeger (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)