The University of Minho welcomes Arqus postgraduate students to the Blended Intensive Programme on “Host-Fungus Interactions and Virulence: One Health Approach”
University of Minho
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21 Dec 2023
The University of Minho will host next May the “Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) on Host-Fungus Interactions and Virulence: One Health Approach”. It will take place in-person from 20th to 24th May and online from 27th to 30th May.
The course is aimed at postgraduate students at universities around the world. Applications are now open and must be sent by 20th April 2024 to psampaio@bio.uminho.pt. This BIP is supported by the Erasmus+ Program and has 15 eligible scholarships for one week of in-person attendance at UMinho.
The program will address the following topics:
Theoretical programme
- Introduction to Fungal Diseases and One Health Issue
- Epidemiology of Fungal Diseases and Environmental Changes
- Diagnosis and treatment of fungal infections
- Fungal virulence factors and host-pathogen interactions
- Introduction to next-generation sequencing methods for studying fungal genetic variations
Laboratory classes programme
- Use of PCR to identify different fungal species
- In vitro model of macrophage-like cell lines to study host-fungus interactions
This course is organized by the Research Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA) and the Department of Biology of the School of Sciences of UMinho.
More info:
Prof. Paula Sampaio – psampaio@bio.uminho.pt, +351 253601546
Prof. Ricardo Franco-Duarte – ricardofilipeduarte@bio.uminho.pt.
