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Annual Meeting for Graduate Programme: Immunology and Infectious Disease 2018
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3651-18-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 22/07/2018
Date and time22.08.2018, at: 00:00 - 24.08.2018, at: 16:00
Regular seats40
Course fee3,600.00 kr.
LecturersCharlotte Menne Bonefeld
ECTS credits2.00
Contact personClaire Alberte Charasse    E-mail address: clch@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD 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.

Course title
Annual Meeting for Graduate Programme: Immunology and Infectious Disease 2018,
Theme: The Immune Response in Health and Diseases


Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. Understand the basic mechanism of regulation of the immune response
2. Understand the importance of the innate and adaptive immune system and the involvement of the component in the immune response.
3. Describe fundamental mechanisms of the immune system and the importance of the different components in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
4. Reflect on strategies to deal with inflammatory reactions in relation to diseases
5. Describe changes with age of the immune system and its implications

Content
Knowledge about how the innate and adaptive immune system on a molecular level respond to pathogens has been described during recent years. Furthermore, it has become increasingly evident that immunological memory constitute an important issue involving both the innate and adaptive immune system. The aim of the course is to convey current basic knowledge of the immune system and its involvement inflammatory diseases by leading international scientists.

Participants
PhD students with interests in infectious diseases and immunological issues

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:

Immunology and Infectious Diseases
Clinical Research
Molecular Mechanisms of Disease


Language
English

Form
Lectures, poster sessions and short talks

Course director
Associate professor Charlotte Menné Bonefeld and Professor Mogens Holst Nissen
Department of Immunology and Microbiolgy
The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
cmenne@sund.ku.dk and mhni@sund.ku.dk


Teachers
National and International Speakers

Dates
22 -24 August 2018


Course location
LO-skolen, Gl Hellebækvej 70, 3000 Helsingør Denmark

Registration
Please register before of 22 July 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.

Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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