Course Overview

This course provides an introduction to the principles of molecular and cellular biology and their connections to disease control. Lectures range from transcriptional regulation to models of diseases (in vivo) and provide insights into biological processes and the biological mechanisms underlying human diseases (e.g. cancer) and their physiology.

Learning Achievement

Students will gain knowledge that are essential in understanding the current state of transcriptional regulation, epigenetics, stem cell, and cancer research.

Competence

Expertise, English language proficiency

Course prerequisites

Grading Philosophy

The students will be graded based on the reports submitted at the end of the course.

Course schedule

Cancer as a metabolic disease
From obesity and diabetes to cancer
Signaling through lysine acetylation
Epigenetic bromodomain targets in cancer
Precision medicine ？ Exploiting our understanding of genome organization for disease diagnostics and prognostics
Mathematical modeling in biology
Bioinformatics and biological databases
Statistics for Biology: basic concepts
The origins of phenotypic heterogeneity in cancer
Transcription factors and gene expression

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Goding Colin,Filippakopoulos Panagis,Mellor Jane,Seingrimsson Eirikur,Larue Lionel,Kyo Tosyu

Other information

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university