Course Identification

Title:

State of the art techniques in immunology

Code:

20183152

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Dr. Ira Zaretsky

TA's:

Dr. Ayelet Avin Golan

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2018

Semester:

Second Semester

When / Where:

Tuesday, 11:15 - 13:00, WSoS, Rm B

First Lecture:

20/03/2018

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Life Sciences: Lecture; Elective; 2.00 points
Life Sciences (Systems Biology Track): 2.00 points
Life Sciences (Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience Track): 2.00 points

Comments

On the following dates the lectures will be held at:

15/5- Musher lab number 1
22/5- Musher lab number 1
19/6- Musher lab number 1
26/6- Musher lab number 2

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

Participants:

100

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Required in at least 80% of the lectures

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Final:

100%

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

N/A

Syllabus

The course will expose students to advanced techniques in immunology and their application in specific experimental systems investigated in our department. It will cover both background and historical aspects of each technique, include specific examples from the literature and will also present innovative implementations of these methods by specific setups currently in use by individual labs in the department.

Lectures:

1	course overview+Brief and advanced introduction to the immune system
2	Microfluidics
3	Novel FACS applications for ex vivo analysis
4	Image stream
5	High throughput sequencing and analysis
6	Advanced in vivo methods
7	Two photon microscopy
8	Novel Cytoff applications for ex vivo analysis
9	High throughput sequencing and analysis
10	Two photon and light sheet microscopy
11	Transgenic, reporter and knockout mice
12	CRISPR
13	Antibody production and application
14	High-throughput analysis of TCR and BCR repertoires
15	Proteomics in immunology

Credit points will be awarded to students who will in turn submit a short paper describing an immunological problem and a detailed description of possible experimental solutions. These solutions should make use of at least three of the state of the art techniques covered in the course.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

Demonstrate understanding of innovative "state of the art" techniques in immunology.
Use innovative "state of the art" techniques in immunology.

Reading List

N/A

Website

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