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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
Advances in molecular biology and genetics - MPGS0034
Title: Advances in molecular biology and genetics
Czech title: Pokroky v molekulární biologii a genetice
Guaranteed by: Department of Cell Biology (31-151)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 0
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:10/0, C [DS]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Explanation: pořádá ÚMG AV ČR, prof. MUDr.Jiří Jonák,DrSc.
Additional information: https://pokroky.img.cas.cz/
Note: course is intended for doctoral students only
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: prof. MUDr. Jiří Jonák, DrSc.
Teacher(s): prof. MUDr. Jiří Jonák, DrSc.
prof. Mgr. Petr Svoboda, Ph.D.
Annotation -
The goal of the two-week lecture course in English is to inform the participants about the recent progress in the fields of molecular biology, genetics and biomedicine together with selected new biotechnology approaches. The course is suitable for ISPs of the first year PhD students in biomedicine (http://pdsb.avcr.cz) as lectures cover broad area of molecular biology and biomedical research. Further information can be found on the course website: https://pokroky.img.cas.cz/en/

TIME AND PLACE
The course takes the first two weeks in November. It will be held in the Milan Hašek Lecture Hall of the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IMG), Vídeňská 1083, Praha 4 Krč (Krč-campus of the biological institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences). Attendees must also register through a separate form: https://event.img.cas.cz/registration/advances2025/ before October 25th, 2025.
Last update: Šebková Nataša, RNDr., Ph.D. (03.09.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

Attendance and active participation (completion and submission of the evaluation form).

Last update: Šebková Nataša, RNDr., Ph.D. (29.08.2023)
Syllabus -

PROGRAM OF THE COURSE

All lectures will be held in English by selected scientists from Czechia and abroad.

The course consists of 43 research lectures organized into thematic blocks. All lectures will be given by active scientists in English.

DNA/cell nucleus: nuclear microstructure-function relationship, nuclear lamina, spatio-temporal organization, human genome structure and evolution, CRISPR.

RNA:  organization and regulation of RNA polymerase II transcription, RNA and innate immunity, non-coding RNAs, RNA & cellular structures.

Proteins: eukaryotic protein synthesis, proteomics and proteomes, structural biology tools, prions, synthetic protein biology.

Cell biology and signaling: integrative biology of intermediate microfilaments, biophysics of ciliary transport, actomyosin in early embryo morphogenesis, interaction between cells and the extracellular matrix, microtubules and signal transduction.

Developmental biology:  Evo devo of animal development, early mouse development, zebrafish as a model system in developmental biology, zebrafish as a model system in developmental biology, transposable elements in mammalian development.

Biomedicine – genomics: rare genetic variants in Mendelian complex diseases, sequencing methods, RNA delivery particles, CRISPR and synthetic biology, genetic engineering.

Biomedicine – cancer biology: horizontal mitochondrial transfer in cancer, roles of tumor suppressor p53, metabolic communication in tumors, DNA repair and human pathologies, chromosomal aberrations in cancer cells.

Biomedicine – hematology & immunology: CAR-T biology & therapy, metabolic rewiring in leukemia therapy resistance, tumor immunology and cancer immunotherapy, oxygen transport at the molecular level, non-coding RNAs in leukemias and lymphomas.

Career development workshop: academic ecosystem, career in science, research ethics and scientific misconduct, conflict management.

At the end of the course participants receive a credit into “indexes“ and SIS.

 

Last update: Šebková Nataša, RNDr., Ph.D. (03.09.2025)
 
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