Experimental Biomedical Research

['Introduction to Brain and CNS', 'Overview Psychiatric Disorders Stress', 'Depression and the Brain', 'Biological bases of psychiatric disorders', 'Deep brain stimulation and brain disorders', 'Cortical stimulation and restorative functions', 'Overview neural pathologies, brain plasticity', 'Cognitive recovery after brain lesion', 'Neuroimaging correlates of functional recovery and plasticity', 'Cortical and spinal cord plasticity in motor recovery', 'Nervous system regeneration', 'Myocardial Infarction Models', 'Model systems for aging research and age-related diseases', 'Models of Metabolic Susceptibility to Obesity', 'Mouse Models of Human disease: a biotech perspective', 'Models for neuropsychiatric disorders', 'Stem cells and disease modeling:facts or science fiction', 'Human knock-outs: genetic defects in endocrinology and metabolism', 'Kidney models for nephrological disease', 'Introduction to Program and Course Unit', 'Concepts of Inflammation', 'Current concepts of cancer', 'Cancer research', 'Asbestosis: Foreign body reaction', 'Inflammation and tumourneogenesis', 'Concepts of nanomaterials in biomedicine', 'Concepts of immunotherapies', 'Concepts of cancer therapies', 'Concepts in Bacterial research', 'Concepts in antibiotics research', 'Concepts in viral research', 'Concepts in malaria research', 'Concepts in antimicrobial immune mechanisms', 'Evaluation and Feedback on unit, Mock exam', 'Fundamentals of optical microscopy and fluorescence imaging', 'Confocal Microscopy', 'Fluorescent probes', 'Koheler illumination and contrast methods', 'Digital image acquisition and processing', 'Live imaging', 'Emerging methods: light sheet microscopy', 'Research seminar 1: tdb', 'Emerging methods: superresolution microscopy', 'Research seminar 2: tdb', 'Make your own microscope', 'Confocal', 'Live imaging', 'TL microscopy', 'Image processing', 'Inferential statistics and experimental design', 'Introduction to Unit', 'Review article presented', 'Literature research', 'Referencing', 'Reference administration/EndNote', 'How to make a poster', 'How to write an original research article', 'How to write a thesis', 'How to write a research proposal', 'How to write a research grant application', 'How to chose the right methods?', 'Human Ethics', 'Animal Ethics', 'How to write an ethics application', 'Presentation of topic for review article', 'Feedback on how to make a good presentation', 'Editing', 'Evaluation and Feedback on unit', 'Screening for cognitive disorders in patients', 'EEG recording and analysis', 'Eye tracking in non-human primates', 'Motor skill learning in non-human primates', 'Interpreting self-evaluation forms in psychiatric patients', 'EEG signatures of psychiatric disorders', 'Dynamics of balance training', 'Introduction on the environment of Matlab', 'Variables : cells, double, string, numeric.', 'Vectors/Matrices: (Indexing, retrieving values,etc..)', 'Show basic useful functions in Matlab', 'Show logical operators', 'Creating scripts in Matlab', 'Show the if/else, loops (for, while)', 'Content provided by teacher during course', 'Recap Matlab I', 'Handling data', 'Plotting data', 'Measures of centrality and of dispersion', 'Pearson correlation/spearman correlation, P-values', 'Linear regression, parametric tests, non-parametric tests', 'Non-invasive brain stimulation techniques (TMS/tDCS/tACS)', 'Theoretical background and underlying physiological mechanisms', 'Applications in cognitive neuroscience and biological psychology', 'Hands-on experience', 'Introduction to Unit', 'Immune cells', 'Origine and Characteristics', 'T cells activation', 'Migration - Chemokines and Receptors', 'Summary and Discussion of labs 2-5', 'Phagocytes', 'Dendritic cells', 'Antigen processing and presentation', 'Summary and Discussion of labs 7 and 8', 'Cytokines', 'Cytotoxicity', 'Summary and discussion of labs 10 and 11', 'Student presentations', 'Evaluation of course and Mock Exam', 'T-cells', 'Types and function', 'How to perform echocardiography on small animal', 'How to induce myocardial infarction', 'How to assess myocardial infarct expansion', 'How to apply cell therapy for myocardial infarction', 'How to isolate bone marrow stem cell for cell therapy', 'How to induce atherosclerotic plaques in animal models', 'How to isolate and culture vascular wall cells and monocytes/macrophages', 'How to measure nitric oxide, oxidative stress in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo', 'How to analyze cardiovascular inflammations', 'How to study vascular aging and lifespan in animal models', 'How to monitor blood pressure and heart rate in vivo in animal models', 'Phenotypic expression of adiposity in population and gene-search studies', 'Recent advances in concepts about health risks related to body composition phenotypes', 'Assessment of human variability in energy expenditure, fuel oxidation and core temperature', 'Gender differences in metabolic susceptibility to obesity and cardiometabolic diseases', 'Compounds that stimulate thermogenesis and fat oxidation in obesity management', 'Targeting brown adipose tissue thermogenesis in human obesity and the metabolic syndrome', 'How to analyze renal function', 'How to determine and differentiate different types of proteinuria', 'Assessment of proteolytical activity in fluids', 'How to perform genotyping of knockout mouse models', 'How to induce acute/chronic kidney injury', 'Recognition of renal structures in kidney disease']