Cellular Programs SS 2025

Overview

Semester
SS 2025
Type
Special-Topic Lecture Biosciences
Language
English
Credit Points
5
Lecture
Tuesdays

10:15 am – 11:45 am,
building E2 1, room 001,
starting on April 8th

Tutorial

biweekly, first tutorial: to be announced

Exam
To be announced
Re-Exam

To be announced

Information

The course will take place in person only.

Please send an email to Kerstin Gronow-Pudelek if you want to be added to the MS Teams group of the course.

This course can be used as a “Spezialvorlesung der Biowissenschaften/Special-topic Lecture Biosciences”.

Requirements

There are no formal requirements, but solid prior knowledge about the following topics is enocuraged:

  • cellular networks
  • genetics
  • cell biology
  • omics technologies

Content

  1. biological content
    • circadian rhythms
    • cell cycle
    • cell differentiation/cell reprogramming
    • development of cancer
  2. bioinformatics content
    • gene expression analysis
    • DNA methylation analysis
    • time series analysis
    • gene ontology and pathway annotation
    • interaction networks
    • application of clustering techniques
    • construction of gene-regulatory networks

Conditions for Certification

  1. There will be n=6 biweekly assignments. Students need to answer questions and write short essays about topics covered in the lecture and in assigned research papers. There are three possible grades: excellent, pass, failed. Students need to get a “pass” grade on at least n-1 assignments or n-3 “pass” and one “excellent” grade.
  2. A written final exam of 120 min. will be offered at the end of the semester.
  3. Students need to present at least once during the lecture in a group of up to 3 students on the content of an assigned research paper (20 min. presentation and 10 min. discussion).

Certification (Schein)

An averaged score will be computed from the mark of the final exam (counts 2/3) and the graded presentation (counts 1/3). This yields the grade of certification (“Schein”).

Lectures

Lectures take place on Tuesdays from 10:15 am to 11:45 am in building E2.1 room 001. The lecture slides are available in the Microsoft Teams group in the “General” channel under “Files”.

Lecture 1
Tue, April 8
Lecture 2
Tue, April 15
Lecture 3
Tue, April 22
Lecture 4
Tue, April 29
Lecture 5
Tue, May 6
Lecture 6
Tue, May 13
Lecture 7
Tue, May 20
Lecture 8
Tue, May 27
Lecture 9
Tue, June 3
Lecture 10
Tue, June 10
Lecture 11
Tue, June 17
Lecture 12
Tue, June 24
Lecture 13
Tue, July 1
Lecture 14
Tue, July 8
Lecture
Tue, July 15

Tutorials

Biweekly, to be announced

Tutorial 1
to be announced

Topics for Student Presentations

Here you will find the topics for your presentations (to be announced soon).

Topic 1

Example topic title

to be announced