spring 2017
MBI-8001 Molecular and Clinical Aspects of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity - 10 ECTS
Admission requirements
Applicants must be enrolled in a PhD programme or Medical Student Research Program, and have qualifications within the field of infection, inflammation and/or immunology. PhD students at UiT that are not part of the research school "Infection, Inflammation and Immunity" and external PhD students will be evaluated for admission by the course committee based upon their project descriptions.
Valid documentation is a statement from your institution that you are a registered PhD student, or master student at a Medical Student Research Program . PhD students and Medical Research students are exempt from semester fee.
For more information regarding PhD courses at the Faculty of Health Sciences go to: http://uit.no/helsefak/forskning/phd/emner
Course content
The course provides insight and knowledge of the research fields of antimicrobial drugs, pharmacoepidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, microbial adaption and evolution, resistance determinants, spread of resistance, microbial determinants for colonisation and infection, biofilm, host determinants for bacterial colonisation, host response, all aspects of innate and adaptive immune response to alloantigens, microbial antigens and autoantigens, and infection epidemiology.Objectives of the course
From this course students should be able to:- Define a relevant research question within the scientific field of this course.
- Suggest a research approach to answer the problem.
- Consider methods to apply.
- Consider the research knowledge about important questions, approaches, applied methods and research activities within selected topics within the research areas infection, inflammation and immunity.
Assessment
Work requirements
- Lectures and seminars are obligatory.
- One essay on a subject selected by the student. The essay should be in the form of a research proposal and follow the ERC/RCN outline. The essay is evaluated by the student's PhD supervisor and one from the course committee.
Assessment
One Oral presentation of a given scientific publication/subject appointed by the course committee. The Oral presentation is evaluated as passed/not passed.
Re-sit exam
The course is given once each year. There will not be arranged a re-sit exam for this course.
Error rendering component
- About the course
- Campus: Tromsø |
- ECTS: 10
- Course code: MBI-8001
- Responsible unit
- Institutt for medisinsk biologi
- Tilleggsinformasjon
- PhD students at UiT
- External applicants
- Course information
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