Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Ion Channels
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3403-19-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 12/05/2019

Date and time	23.05.2019, at: 08:30 - 24.05.2019, at: 15:45
Regular seats	20
Course fee	4,080.00 kr.
Lecturers	Nicole Schmitt
ECTS credits	2.30

Contact person	Bo Bentzen E-mail address: bobe@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), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. 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. have insight in up-to-date knowledge about molecular basis ion channel function; 2. have insight in the cellular and physiological role of ion channels; 3. demonstrate and discuss own data in front of the renown speakers within the field; 4. put own research project into perspective of the ion channel research field; 5. develop contacts to arrange stays abroad during the PhD period (or network for possible postdoc opportunities). Content The course gives an introduction to the physiological significance of ion channels and cover recent findings in ion channel research. Leading international scientists will present and discuss molecular studies of the function of ion channels, their regulation, biophysics, subunit interaction and pharmacology. Furthermore, the course will cover studies on the role of ion channels in cells, organs, in animals in vivo and in humans with dysfunctional ion channels caused by mutations making them prone to e.g. cardiac arrhythmia. One of the unique features is that the speakers are present during the entire program. The speakers actively reach out to the students, hence PhD students can engage with them not only during the lectures and poster session, but also at “round table sessions” during coffee and lunch breaks. Keywords/topics covered in the course • Calcium entry and calcium handling revisited • The mechanics of ionic currents – mechano-gating and the role of the cytoskeleton • Emerging techniques in ion channel research • Translational ion channel research – how basic research ideas make it to real life • Ion channels in metabolism Participants PhD students or other scientist with basic background in ion channels, cardiology, neuronal physiology and metabolism. Participants are expected to read review articles by the presenting international scientists as preparation to the course. Furthermore, participants are asked to present a poster about their own project. (For beginners, we recommend a poster outlining the overall project plan. Advanced students should present data.) We will offer up to 8 PhD students to present data as short oral presentation. Both poster and oral communications offer unique opportunities to discuss own ideas and data and to network with leading experts in the field. 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: Cardiovascular Research Pharmaceutical Sciences (Drug Research Academy) Neuroscience Molecular Mechanisms of Disease Basic Metabolic Research Language English Form Lectures, discussion, poster presentations, oral presentations, pre-read material. Course director Nicole Schmitt, Prof. wsr, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, nschmitt@sund.ku.dk Bo Hjorth Bentzen, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, bobe@sund.ku.dk Teachers Maarten Kole (Utrecht University, The Netherlands); Carsten Culmsee (Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany); Bethan Kilpatrick (University College London, UK); Johann Schredelseker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany); David Beech (University of Leeds, UK); Gary Lewin (Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany); Miguel Valverde (University of Pompeu Fabra, Spain); Patrizia Hildago (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany); Anthony Gramolini (University of Toronto, Canada); Patricia Cameletti (University of Surrey, UK); Pontus Gourdon (University of Copenhagen, Denmark); Claus Hélix-Nielsen (Technical University, Denmark); Guillaume Sandoz (INSERM, France); Rajan Sah (Washington University School of Medicine, USA); Charlotta Olofsson (University of Gothenburg, Sweden); Andrei Tarasov (Oxford University, UK) Dates 23. and 24. May 2018 Course location Danish Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters, H.C. Andersens Boulevard 35, 1553 Copenhagen V Registration Please register before 1 May 2019 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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