| Responsible Department | Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Dates | 12 - 16 August 2013 | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Abstract | Protein-protein interactions are becoming increasingly important as people realize that proteins are rather working in a network than alone. Unraveling and dissecting these networks requires interdisciplinary approaches, ranging from biochemistry, biophysics to bioinformatics. | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Home Page | http://dynamo.ku.dk/ss2013/ | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Registration | Write a summary of your project plus a short motivation passage explaining your interest in the course (max 20 lines). Email this along with a 1-page CV to dynamo@life.ku.dk. | ||||||||||||||||
| Deadline for Registration | 17 June 2013. | ||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||
| Level of Course | PhD course | ||||||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | 24 | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||||||
| This PhD course covers classical and new strategies to unravel protein networks: - genetic and biochemical methods - protein network analysis - coordination of regulatory and metabolic cell function - phosphoproteomic analysis | |||||||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||
| The course will feature a combination of lectures, tutorials, panel discussions, laboratory and computer exercises, participant presentations, report writing and networking. | |||||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||||
| Two international leading scientists in related areas within the field of PPI research are the core lecturers at the course. Professor Igor Stagljar from University of Toronto has developed 2nd and 3rd generation of the yeast -2-hybrid technology that is one of the methods to study protein-protein interactions. Moreover, he is co-founder Dualsystems company that sells the toolkit for doing yeast -2-hybrid experiments. His expertise in this field is reflected in a wide range of publications and reviews describing the application of this technology. Professor Stagljar will be responsible for lectures, tutorials and lab exercises related to methods for protein-protein interactomics. Professor Sacha Baginsky from University of Halle is a proteomics expert with a strong track record in particular phosphoproteomics. He is co-developer of phoshoproteomics databases, and will be responsible for training the students in datamining and evaluating data from current databases through lectures, tutorials and computer exercises. | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Material | |||||||||||||||||
| Preparation for the course through background reading (~20 papers) as well as the making of a short presentation is required. | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||
| Barbara Ann Halkier, bah@life.ku.dk, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology/Section for Molecular Plant Biology, Phone: 353-33342 Thomas Günther-Pomorski, tgp@life.ku.dk, Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology/Section for Transport Biology, Phone: 353-33373 | |||||||||||||||||
| Other Lecturers | |||||||||||||||||
| Key lectures: Professor Igor Stagljar, University of Toronto Professor Sacha Baginsky, University of Halle From University of Copenhagen: Ass. Professor Rosa Lopez Postdoc Lars Iversen Professor Jesper V Olsen Ass. Professor Yumiko Sakuragi | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Costs | |||||||||||||||||
| Course participants must cover their own travel, accommodation and meals, however there is no course fee for EU/ECC citizens. Thus only an amount of 1600 DKK to cover meals and social activities during the course will be charged. People from outside of the EU/EAC must pay an additional fee. Amount to be announced. | |||||||||||||||||
| Type of Evaluation | |||||||||||||||||
| Active participation in all parts of the course, a short individual project presentation on the first day and submission of written reports from the group-work based tutorials. | |||||||||||||||||
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