Basic Immunology (3rd & 4th class, winter semester), see SIS annotation.
Basic 1-semestral lecture course on immune system components and mechanisms. There is no qualification prerequisite. Suitable for students of biology, medicine, chemistry.
We will discuss basic theory of immune system functioning, including disease-related information in human pathologies and animal models in brief.
The course is targeted to students of 3rd (BSc.) and 4th (1st MSc.) year and PhD students in biomedical fields, incl. Medical faculty students as well as Erasmus students.
In winter semester we will cover:
(1) Immune system building blocks (organs, cells, molecules)
(2) Evolution of immune system (innate and adaptive)
(3) Receptor diversity generation (lymphocyte BCR & TCR, NK cell receptors)
(4) Immune cell polarization and classes of immune response (cytokines, chemokines)
(5) Immune-related pathologies and therapies
(6) Immune system organization principles
- Teacher: Jan Černý
- Teacher: Karel Drbal
- Teacher: Valéria Grobárová
- Teacher: Alexandra Polášková