Virologi

The course is intended for students and professionals who want to gain knowledge of virology with a particular emphasis on human pathogens.

Course content

The course covers basic virology and virological terminology with a focus on medical virology. Among the topics addressed are the effects of a viral infection at the cell and organism level. The course focuses on molecular virology, particularly virus replication in the infected cell and the molecular mechanisms involved in this. Considerable emphasis is placed on understanding the replication cycle of viruses at the molecular level so that students can use this knowledge to be able to understand how viruses cause disease in the infected host, elude its immune response and spread within an individual and a population. A significant part of the course is devoted to the study of literature – scholarly reviews and original articles on virological issues at the current forefront of research in molecular virology. The course mainly covers human pathogenic viruses.

Group exercises and seminars using their own oral and/or written presentations aim to engender specialised knowledge in chosen parts of molecular virology. The students are to formulate individual issues and carry out the assignment using literature searches and literature studies. The aim of the laboratory sessions is to enable students to develop their ability to plan and execute scientific experiments, interpret and critically review results and compile these in an oral presentation to fellow students and researchers in biomedicine.

Teaching is conducted by means of lectures, seminars, group exercises and laboratory sessions. Tasks are carried out individually or in groups and are presented in oral and written form. The tasks consist, for example, of virological case assignments and/or studies of research publications on virology. Compulsory components in the course are seminars, group exercises and laboratory sessions.

The course syllabus in English on the link below.

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