PhD courses at University of Copenhagen

Moving the brain fluids: Glymphatic system and beyond
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3473-18-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 01/02/2018

Date and time	05.03.2018, at: 08:00 - 06.03.2018, at: 17:00
Regular seats	15
Course fee	2,880.00 kr.
Lecturers	Maiken Nedergaard
ECTS credits	1.60

Contact person	Anne Lee Berger Christensen E-mail address: ann.christensen@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). Special rules apply for research year students enrolled at Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 1. Describe cerebrospinal fluid production and efflux 2. Understand the theoretical considerations underlying transport mediated by diffusion and convection in the brain 3. Understand novel neuroimaging approaches to study cerebrospinal fluid transport 4. Define the main component of the glymphatic system, it driving forces and importance 5. Describe how the sleep-wake cycle regulates cerebrospinal and glymphatic fluid transport The students will have a detailed understanding of fluid transport in the brain. This includes all the fluid compartments, such as cerebrospinal fluid, intra- and extracellular fluid, and their efflux via the perivascular space. The student will able to define approaches for how to study fluid transport in brain using novel neuroimaging techniques, and understand diseases, such as hydrocephalus, in which brain function is compromised because of increases in intracranial pressure due to obstruction of cerebrospinal fluid efflux. The very basic introduction to diffusion versus convective transport will allow the student to have insight into the theory about what drives the dispersion of solutes in brain and put the diseases of fluid transport into a novel perspective. Content See course program Participants The course will be targeting all neuroscience PhD students. A basic neuroscience knowledge is required. Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: Neuroscience Psychiatry Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Language English Form Lectures Course director Professor Maiken Nedergaard, Center for Translational Neuromedicine, SUND, email: Nedergaard@sund.ku.dk Teachers • Alexei Verkhratsky, Professor, University of Manchester/University of Copenhagen • Conrad Johanson, Professor Emeritus, Brown University • Jeppe Prætorius, Professor, Aarhus University • Marianne Juhler, Professor, University of Copenhagen • Marijan Klarica, Professor, University of Zagreb • Nanna MacAulay, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen • Ali Erturk, Assistant Professor, University of Munich • Helene Benveniste, Professor, Yale University • Jack Thomas, Professor, University of Rochester • Charles Nicholson, Professor, NYU • György Buzsáki, Professor, NYU • Jeff Iliff, Assistant Professor, University of Portland • Doug Kelly, Assistant Professor, University of Rochester • Per Eide, Professor, University of Oslo • Vesa Kiviniemi, Professor, University of Oulu Dates March 5-6 2018 Course location Maersk Tower Registration Please register before 1/2/2018 Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.