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
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Statistics and Quantitative Biology Evolution Immunobiology Ecology |
Systems Biology
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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 |