Høst 2014

MBI-8002 Research Seminar Series in Infection, Inflammation and Immunity - 4 stp

The course is administrated by

Institutt for medisinsk biologi

Type of course

PhD course. This course is not available as a singular course.

The course is a part of the instruction component at the research school "Infection, inflammation and immunity"

Course contents

The course covers different aspects 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 including methods to study such aspects.

Application deadline

24.7.2014

Admission requirements

Applicants must be admitted to the ph.d.-program Infection, Inflammation and Immunology.

For information about how to apply for admission, go to:

http://uit.no/helsefak/forskning/phd/emner

Objective of the course

From this course students are expected to achieve:

Knowledge about local, national and international research activities within infection, inflammation and immunity.
Knowledge about methods used within the research areas infection, inflammation and immunity.
Proficiency in oral scientific presentation and peer evaluation

Language of instruction

English

Teaching methods

Lectures and oral evaluation.

Assessment

Work requirements

Research seminars are obligatory during six semesters.
Three oral presentations of research project or selected subject.
One evaluation of a PhD student presentation.

Assessment

Students must attend a minimum of 70 % of the presentations to pass the course. Extended absence due to research stay(s) outside Tromsø must be approved by the course committee in advance. The Oral presentations will be evaluated as passed/not passed by one supervisor and one PhD student. All parts have to be passed to pass the course.

Continuation:

No continuation as the course is given continuously.