Course work and Faculty

 

The courses are organized and taught by IGC scientists with the help of invited colleagues from top universities and research institutes all over the world. A large number of the IGC faculty and international speakers work with the students during the coursework. The large faculty exposes the students to the diversity of scientific viewpoints and allows each one to initiate national and international networking. 

The students’ lives start with a semester of courses that allow them to explore concepts in modern biology and cutting-edge research. The courses cover the whole spectrum of biology, such as biophysics and systems biology,  molecular biology, host-microbe interaction,  evolution, and ecology, and showcase the key questions reflecting the themes and labs at the institute.

The following courses are offered. 

 Scientific Areas

Courses

Scientific Method

History of Biological Concepts

Hypothesis Driven Research

Biophysics and Biological Chemistry

Molecular and Structural Biology

Biophysics

Cell and Developmental Biology 

Inside the cell

Cell Biology

Developmental Biology

Plant Biology

 

Evolution and Quantitative Biology 

 

Statistics and Quantitative Biology

Evolution

Immunobiology

Ecology

 

Systems Biology 

 

 

Neurobiology

Host-Pathogen Interactions

From cells to Organisms

Systems Biology

Methods in Integrative Biology

Bioinformatics

 

External lecturers from the 2023 cohort included

Laura L. Lovett

Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, United States

Andela Saric

Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Jonathan Baxter

University of Sussex, UK

Michael Way

The Francis Crick Institute, UK

Jesse Veenvlie

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Miguel Godinho Ferreira

IRCAN – Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice, France

Hans-Martin Jaeck

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Filipe Cabreiro

University of Cologne, Germany and London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS) Imperial College London, UK

MariaZimmermann-Kogadeeva

Multi-omics-based modeling of microbial ecosystems Lab, EMBL, Germany

Anita Narwani

Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

Suzana Herculano Houzel

Vanderbilt University, US

Rüdiger Simon

Cluster of Excellence on Plant Sciences, Heinrich-Heine University

Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo 

Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

   

 

Updated on 26 february 2024

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