Course overview
- Course codeFBBT002
- ECTS credits7.5
- DepartmentLIFE SCIENCES
- Graduate schoolBioscience
- LanguageEnglish
- Nordic Five Tech (N5T)The course is free of charge for PhD students from N5T Universities.
- ApplicationContact the course coordinator
Course coordinator
- Yvonne Nygård
- Associate Professor, Industrial Biotechnology, Life Sciences
About the course
- Analysis and interpretation of scientific articles
- In silico synthetic or molecular biology project as a group assignment
- Structure and function of nucleic acids in vitro and in biological systems
- Gene replication and regulation at the transcriptional and post-transcriptional level
- RNA-protein interactions and RNA-protein inclusions (mRNPs) in post-transcriptional gene regulation
- Methods used to study and measure post-transcriptional mRNA translation, stability and localization
- Methods to investigate structure and dynamics of nucleic acids and processes involving these
- Technologies and applications for synthetic biology in vivo
- Genetic parts, devices, synthetic circuits
- DNA assembly methods
- Synthetic genomes
- Advanced CRISPR/Cas9 based technologies including CRISPRa/i and CRISPR-based high throughput screening
- Genetic biosensors, in vivo evolution and biosensor-based high throughput screening
- RNA as a therapeutic and research tool
- Design and function of RNA-based therapeutic modalities and their clinical potential
- Use of RNA to regulate cell function in molecular biology research, at cellular, tissue and organism level
- Synthesis, modification and formulation of RNA for delivery
- Methods, mechanisms and measurements for RNA delivery
More information
Yvonne Nygård
Literature
Scientific articles, review articles.
Lecturer
Yvonne Nygård