Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Innate Immunity
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3608-20-00-00	There are no available seats
	Enrollment deadline: 20/12/2019

Date and time	20.01.2020, at: 08:30 - 22.01.2020, at: 17:00
Regular seats	15
Course fee	6,480.00 kr.
Lecturers	Peter Garred
ECTS credits	3.20

Contact person	Jytte Bryde Clausen E-mail address: jytte.bryde.clausen@regionh.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). 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. Understand the basic and advanced principles of the innate immune system. 2. Investigate and analyse laboratory experiments related to innate immunity. 3. Put innate immunity into the perspective of inflammation, autoimmunity and malignancy. Content The course will contain lectures about innate immunity in general, the complement system, toll like receptors, the NOD/CARD system and the inflammasome, the pentraxin protein family, antibiotic peptides, phagocytes, basophils and mast cells, innate lymphocytes, physical barriers, trained innate immunity, inflammatory mechanisms and their relation to disease pathophysiology, how innate immunity recognize microbes and how innate immunity handle dying host cells. Participants The course is highly relevant for PhD students with a background in natural and medical sciences, who wish to obtain cutting edge knowledge about innate immunity. 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: All graduate programmes Language English Form The course will be a combination of lectures, exercises, group work, discussions and presentations. Course director Peter Garred, professor, Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Department of Clinical Immunology Section 7631, Rigshospitalet, e-mail: peter.garred@regionh.dk Teachers Professor Terje Espevik, University of Trondheim, Professor Tom Eirik Mollnes, University of Oslo, Professor Peter Garred, Rigshospitalet, Senior researcher Bettina M. Jensen, Herlev - Gentofte Hospital, Associate professor Mikkel-Ole Skjoedt, University of Copenhagen, Professor Anna Blom, University of Lund, professor Anna Karlsson, University of Gothenburg, associate professor Ole E. Sørensen, University of Lund, professor Daniel Ricklin, University of Basel, senior researcher Daniel Madsen Herlev - Gentofte Hospital, professor Seppo Meri, University of Helsinki, associate professor Ying Jie Ma, Rigshospitalet, post doc Beatrice Dyring –Andersen, University of Copenhagen, professor Christine Stabell Benn Center, Statens Serum Institut, professor Søren Riis Paludan, University of Aarhus and staff members. Dates 20.01.-22.01 2020 Registration Please register before December 20, 2019. Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to 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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