Course Identification

State of the art techniques in immunology
20203112

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Dr. Ira Zaretsky, Dr. Inbal Eizenberg, Dr. Ziv Porat, Dr. Diego Jaitin, Dr. Tomer Meir Salame, Dr. Hadas Keren-Shaul, Dr. Yoseph Addadi, Dr. Avital Eisenberg-Lerner, Dr. Yishai Levin
Dr. Adi Biram, Dr. Natalia Davidzohn, Dr. Ayelet Avin Golan

Course Schedule and Location

2020
Second Semester
Sunday, 11:15 - 13:00, FGS, Rm B
19/04/2020

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

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

Comments

Will be taught via Zoom starting April 19th.

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

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 %)

100%

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

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Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

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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:

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

Reading List

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Website

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