Inflammatory and autoimmune diseases and cancer: immunological aspects

Teacher(s)

Dumoutier Laure (coordinator); Lucas Sophie; Renauld Jean-Christophe; van der Bruggen Pierre;

Language

French
> English-friendly

Main themes

Advanced notions of immunology, focusing on a few topics relevant for biomedicine: inflammation and triggering mechanisms, cancer immunology and therapeutic applications, cytokines and regulation of innate and adaptive immune responses, immunosuppressive mechanisms and regulatory T cells with their roles in autoimmune diseases, T helper cells and NK cells in the defense against pathogens.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	At the end of this course the student will be able to understand various experimental methods used in immunology, and to interpret and criticize experimental results in immunology themes that were discussed during classes.

Content

Advanced studies on immunology, focused on a few topics that are medically relevant: inflammation and its triggering mechanisms, cancer immunology and therapeutic applications, Antigen processing by the different proteasomes, cytokines and regulation of innate and adaptive immune responses, immunosuppressive mechanisms and regulatory T cells with their roles in autoimmune diseases, myeloid cells with their roles in cancer.

Teaching methods

Lectures based mostly on experimental results which are discussed with their controls and interpretation.
Interaction with students, who need to understand basic immunology.
Four teachers, with 1-3 topics per teacher.
All documents on Moodle.

Evaluation methods

Written exam, open questions.
Experimental results are presented, similar to but different from those presented during the course, have to be interpreted and discussed.

Other information

basic immunology is necessary

Online resources

Slides available on Moodle.

Teaching materials

• Documents projetés au cours, disponibles sur Moodle.

Faculty or entity

SBIM