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Annual Meeting for Graduate Programme: Immunology and Infectious Disease 2021
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3651-21-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 05/07/2021
Date and time08.09.2021, at: 12:00 - 10.09.2021, at: 13:15
Regular seats52
Course fee3,720.00 kr.
LecturersCharlotte Menne Bonefeld
ECTS credits2.00
Contact personMette Odgaard    E-mail address: mette.odgaard@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), 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 at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline. This also applies to PhD students from Nordic countries. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list.


Theme
Regional Immunity


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 immune system in different tissues

3. Describe fundamental mechanisms of tissue versus systemic immune responses

4. Reflect on the meaning of immune priveleged tissues

5. Describe differencies in the immune response to autoantigens and pathogens


Content
The aim of the course is to convey current newest knowledge of the immune system in different tissues, the mechanisms mediating immune privelegded tissues, and how the immune response changes depending on the locations of the response -tissue vs. systemic response by leading international scientists. In addition, the immune to autoantigens vs. pathogens will be discussed.


Participants
PhD students with interests in immunological issues and infectious diseases


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

Airways, Anesthesiology and Skin

Clinical Cancer Research


Language
English


Form
Lectures, poster sessions and short talks


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


Teachers
National and International Speakers


Dates
8-10 september 2021


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


Registration
Please register before 5 July 2021

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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