Reminder: Ischia Summer School in History of Life Sciences: application deadline 15 February

Call for applications

Creating Life: From Alchemy to Synthetic Biology

The Thirteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences

‘Villa Dohrn’, Ischia, Italy, 29 June – 6 July 2013

Applications are invited for this week-long summer school, which provides advanced training in history of the life sciences through lectures, seminars and discussion in a historically rich and naturally beautiful setting. The theme for 2013 is ‘Creating Life: From Alchemy to Synthetic Biology’. The faculty include Peter Murray Jones, Hiro Hirai, James E. Strick, Helen A. Curry, Luis Campos, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Stefan Helmreich, Wolfgang Schäffner and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger. The deadline for applications is 15 February. For more information, please visit <http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/egenis/events/title,26512,en.html>.

Organized by: Janet Browne (Harvard), Christiane Groeben (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples), Nick Hopwood (Cambridge), Staffan Müller-Wille (Exeter)

Support: Wellcome Trust, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn