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Course, academic year 2024/2025
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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 need do register also through a separate form at this page https://pokroky.img.cas.cz/en/ before October 24th, 2024.

*** COVID-19 ***
The 48th course will be taught on site. In case of another major COVID-19 outbreak, lectures will be available as live streaming through Zoom during the same time slot as the course would run. Recorded lectures would be available for registered participants through a file repository.
Last update: Svoboda Petr, prof. Mgr., Ph.D. (01.10.2024)
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 is composed of 43 lectures organized into the following thematic blocks:

DNA/cell nucleus: nuclear microstructure-function relationship, nuclear lamina, organization and function of the 3D genome, human genome structure and evolution, germline restricted chromosomes in birds.

RNA:  organization and regulation of RNA polymerase II transcription, noncanonical RNA caps, transcription and splicing regulation, non-coding RNAs, small RNA pathways.

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

Cell biology and signaling:  microtubules and signal transduction, microtubules in neuronal development, cytoskeleton and plant organelles, centrosomes and cilia, integrative biology of intermediate microfilaments.

Developmental biology:  oocyte-to-zygote transition, planarian regeneration, induced pluripotent stem cells and organoids, zebrafish as a model system in developmental biology, comparative developmental biology of facial shape.

Biomedicine – genomics: rare genetic variants in Mendelian complex diseases, high-throughput sequencing methods, epigenetic disorders and therapy, antiviral prospects of gene editing, base and prime editors.

Biomedicine – cancer biology: germline mutations in cancer, ADP-ribose metabolism and DNA breaks in human disease, fibroblasts in mammary gland development and breast cancer, mitochondria and liver regeneration, ovarian cancer and extracellular vesicles.

Biomedicine – hematology & immunology: Regulation of production of immune cells, immune memory, molecular tricks of bacterial pathogens to manipulate the host, central and peripheral immune tolerance, autoimmunity.

Career development workshop: career paths in science-research and alternatives, life with science, scientific communication. research ethics and scientific misconduct.

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

Last update: Svoboda Petr, prof. Mgr., Ph.D. (03.09.2024)
 
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