Title:  Two Day Event for the “Darwin Year” Date/ Location:  November 20 ? 21 2009, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Purpose: Forum of Discussion EMBO Practical Courses promote the transfer of new methods and emerging techniques to a broad number of laboratories. Participating students are introduced to the theory of and receive hands-on training in the technique.

Title: The European research consortia SELFDOTT and ALLOTUNA succeeded in controlling the reproduction of the Atlantic bluefin tuna in captivity and began larval rearing work. Date/ Location:    June 2009, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Aquaculture, Crete Centre EMBO Practical Courses promote the transfer of new methods and emerging techniques to a broad number

Title:  Computational Molecular Evolution Date/ Location:  3rd-12th May 2010, HCMR IMBG, Crete ? Greece EMBO Practical Courses promote the transfer of new methods and emerging techniques to a broad number of laboratories. Participating students are introduced to the theory of and receive hands-on training in the technique. Facilitators are often those scientists who pioneered the