Vår 2016

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

PhD course. This course is available as a singular course.

The course is a formal part of 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.

Application deadline

Registration deadline for PhD students and students at the Medical Student Research Program at Uit - The Arctic University of Norway: February 1st

Application deadline for external applicants: March 1st

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.

PhD students register for the course through StudentWeb. Registrations for the spring semester starts December 1st.

External applicants apply for admission through SøknadsWeb. Registrations for application regarding the spring semester starts October 1st.

For more information regarding PhD courses at the Faculty of Health Sciences go to: http://uit.no/helsefak/forskning/phd/emner

Objective 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.

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 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.