Overview
10:15 am – 11:45 am,
building E2 1, room 001,
starting on October 13th
biweekly, first tutorial: to be announced
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
- biological content
- circadian rhythms
- cell cycle
- cell differentiation/cell reprogramming
- development of cancer
- 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
- There will be n=6 biweekly assignments. Students need to answer questions about 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.
- A written final exam of 120 min. will be offered at the end of the semester.
- 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”.
Tutorials
Biweekly, to be announced
Topics for Student Presentations
To be announced