The HKU-Pasteur Research Pole is delighted to announce the new edition of its Immunology Course co-organised with the Centre for Immunology & Infection.
Quantitative Immunology:
From population to individual immunity
December 1-6, 2024
Deadline for Applications: October 2nd 2024
- APPLICATIONS CLOSED -
The program of the 2024 edition will explore the frontiers of quantitative immunology to describe the function of the immune system in health and disease at a population and individual level. While the question of human variability continues to be a focal point of scientific research, one of the big challenges in developing precision medical care is to define the parameters (genetic, epigenetic or environmental) that dictate how Individuals and/or populations differ in their response to stress and infection.
The course will explore the ongoing transition from reductionist studies that were based on the application of genetic approaches in animal models to a more integrated view of the physiology and pathology of the human immune system and its implication on health and disease at an individual and population level. It will highlight the latest advances in large-scale, quantitative data collection and computational analysis as applied to aspects of immune cell activation and function, multicellular behavior in tissues and model organisms, and human immune function in health and disease. The course welcomes students with limited computational experiences willing to learn how to manage, to visualize and to analyse their own data. The practicals will review some bases of the R programming language and guide the students to use it in an advanced way on multiple omics datasets in relation to immune response profiling from the Milieu Interieur human cohort.
Open to postgraduate students, MD, DVM, postdoctoral fellows and young scientists from Hong Kong and overseas.
The course (MMPH-6174 / CMED6107) is included in the coursework curriculum for research postgraduate studies of the University of Hong Kong.
Registration fees (HKD 2,500, non refundable) include accommodation (on sharing twin basis for overseas participants) and food (lunch and coffee breaks). A limited number of travel grants will be awarded.
Please return the completed form, including 1-2 letters of recommendation to hku-pasteur@hku.hk.
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Check out the tentative programme
Course directors:
Roberto BRUZZONE (HK SAR)
Leo POON (HK SAR)
Sook-San WONG (HK SAR)
James DI SANTO (France)
Faculty:
Anthony BERTRAND (France)
James DI SANTO (France)
Darragh DUFFY (France)
Javier PIZARRO CERDA (France)
Lluis QUINTANA-MURCI (France)
Vincent ROUILLY (France)
Violaine SAINT-ANDRE (France) Sophie VALKENBURG (Australia)
Sook-San WONG (HK SAR)
Wuji ZHANG (Australia)
Jincun ZHAO (PR China)