Courses

2010

General courses

• Inglese Scientifico (Only for Italian students, possibly two levels)
• Scientific Publishing and Communication (Prof. Ralf Dahm, coordinated by Natascia Tiso. Limited to 15-20 active students)
• Statistics (organized by the School of Engineering, Prof. Salmaso; 10-12 March or April 2010; web site: http://www.salmasoluigi.it/s2010.htm)
• Statistical methods (organized by Statistical Sciences; see http://www.stat.unipd.it/dottorato/statistical-methods. March 2010
• Bayesian methods in statistics (Rimantas Eidukevicious, University of Vilnius. End of April – beginning of May 2010). Only half-course (5-8 hours)

Biochemistry and Biophysics

• Molecular Networks in Biology and Medicine, Dr. M. Albrecht, Max-Planck-Institut di Informatica, Dip. di Bioinformatica, Saarbruecken (Germania) (8 hours, 2 hours exercises, Journal Club; first half of February, coordinated by Prof. Tosatto)
• Amyloids and Amyloidoses (about 10 hours, plus Journal Club; first half of May, coordinated by Prof. Sorgato)
  
  Structure-Function Relationship of Protein Aggregates, Prof. R. Riek, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
  
  From the molecular basis of protein fibrillogenesis to drug discovery: lessons from beta 2 microglobulin, V. Bellotti, Dip. di Biochimica, Univ. di Pavia


• Protein Aggregates in Health and Disease (coordinated by Prof. Mammano)
  
  6th of may, h 16.00: A. Bertoli e L. Cendron, Dip. of Chimica Biologica Protein Misfolding and Aggregation: Basic Principles and Techniques
  
  7th of may, h 16.00: A. Bertoli, Dip. of Chimica Biologica Protein Aggregation in Neurodegenerative Disease
  
  13th of may, h 16.00: A. Bertoli Prions as Protein-Based Transmissible Elements
  
  14th of may, h 14.30 (in thecontext of P2P Seminars, Aula magna Vallisneri)

Cell Biology

• Molecular and Cellular Pathology (Prof. C. Montecucco; mutuato dalla LM in Biologia Sanitaria) nei giorni di lun-mar-mer-gio dalle ore 10:30 alle ore 12:15, inizio corso 8 aprile, aula C piano rialzato
• Journal Club (2 cicli) Wenesday morning, 9:15 a.m., (organized by Dr A. Rasola)

Evolutionary Biology

• 8 hours of Metodi di Analisi Comparativa (facoltativo per il solo indirizzo di Biologia Evoluzionistica, 1CFU del corso di Morfologia funzionale animale) (Prof.ssa Rasotto)
• 16 hours of Critical Reading (obbligatorio, per il solo indirizzo di Biologia Evoluzionistica) (Prof.ssa Rasotto)
• Journal Club (Prof. Burighel)
• Electron Microscopy (theory and practice) (optional, open to all students of the School) (Proff. Burighel and Rascio)
• Geometric Morphometrics (Dr Andrea Cardini, Modena; coordinated by Prof. Pilastro)

Biotechnologies

• Diffraction techniques in Structural Biology (G. Zanotti, 12 hours + Journal Club; April)
• Structure, Function And Molecular Biology Of Plastids (Prof. Krupinska, coordinated by M. Zottini; 3 weeks starting from March 12th)

Genetics and Molecular Biology of Development

• Journal Club (coordinator Prof. Argenton)
• Advanced course on Modeling genetic diseases (Coordinated ad interim by Dr Mostacciolo, October)

Neurobiology

• Journal Club (II and III year students; organized by Dr. Pizzo)
• Corso di Neurobiologia e Corso di Biofisica, mutuati dal Corso di Laurea Specialistica in Biologia Molecolare
• Short course on the following arguments: Interactions neurons-astrocites in the nervous system (Dr Carmignoto); The Olfactory system (Dr Claudia Lodovichi)

In collaboration with other Schools

• Computational biophysics for proteins (organized by the School of Physics) (Prof. Antonio Trovato, Dip. Di Fisica, 20 hours)
• Microbiology – a magnifying glass of Biology (Prof. Leonid Margolis, NIH; coordinated by P. Bernardi)

2009

Biochemistry and Biophysics

• Molecular Networks in Biology and Medicine (coordinator S. Tosatto, Dip. di Biologia)
• Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry (coordinators M.C. Sorgato e G. Arrigoni, Dip. di Chmica Biologica)
• Signaling, part B: Life and Death of a Cell: Role of Kinases and Phosphatases (Coordinator, Dr. M. Ruzzene, Dip. di Chimica Biologica)

Cell Biology

• Molecular and Cellular Pathology (Prof. C. Montecucco)

Evolutionary Biology

• Critical Reading (coordinator Mariella Rasotto)
• Electron microscopy (coordinators Prof. Burighel e Rascio, max 12 students)

Biotechnologies

• Applied Bioinformatics (coordinator Prof. G. Valle)
• Principles of PERL programming (with exercises)
• Microbiological biotechnologies (coordinator Prof. A. Squartini)

Genetics and Molecular Biology of Development

• Course on "Signaling" (coordinator Prof. Piccolo, April-May - Three-four lessons, followed by practicals on Zebrafish)
• Multidisciplinary course of Molecular Biology (coordinators Proff. ML. Mostacciuolo and F. Argenton, 24 hours)
• Advanced Scientific Communication (coordinator: prof. Ralf Dahm, September)

Neurobiology

• Neurobiology (Prof. D. Pietrobon)
• Optical Microscopy (Prof. Fabio Mammano, 12 hours)
• The olfactory system (Dr C. Ludovichi, 8 hours)

Common Courses

• Scientific English (repeated twice, May-June and September-October)
• Use of bibliographic resources - Bibliographic data banks, motors, management of references - (A cura del Polo Bibliotecario, 8 hours, followed by 4 hours of scientific writing, highly recommended for first year students

In collaboration with other Schools

• Statistics (Part I and II) - Prof. A. Brazzale, in collaboration with the School of Biosciences (coordinator Dott. C. Romualdi – Prof. L. Gorza)
• Computational biophysics for proteins - organized by the School of Physics (Prof. Antonio Trovato, Dip. Di Fisica)

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