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Vår 2014
MBI-8001 Molecular and clinical aspects of infection, inflammation and immunity - 10 stp
The course is administrated by
Institutt for medisinsk biologi
Type of course
The course is a part of the instruction component at the research school "Infection, inflammation and immunity"
Course contents
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.
Admission requirements
Applicants should be qualified for admission to PhD-program in 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 by the course committee based upon their documented qualifications.
For application details: uit.no/helsefak/forskning/phd/emner
Objective of the course
From this course students are expected to achieve:
Knowledge about important questions, approaches, applied methods and research activities within selected topics within the research areas infection, inflammation and immunity.
Language of instruction
English
Teaching methods
The course includes 35 hours lecture and 15 hours seminar and is scheduled to one 10 days period.
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 students 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.
The course is given once each year. There are no means of continuation.
Recommended reading/syllabus
Lectures, seminars and the "hand outs" that are given during the course define the curriculum.