PhD Course: Keeping up with interactome - How IDPs work
The course is an advanced interdisciplinary course for students interested in understanding an intriguing group of proteins, the IDPs and IDR, and their biological ensembles and interactions, including their drugability. Students from a wide range of science disciplines are encouraged to apply.
Learning Objectives:
Students will gain insights into the practical and theoretical aspects of state-of-the-art technical advances within the field of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), including their interactions, their role in health and disease, as well as their potential drugability. This understanding will specifically focus on techniques relevant for studying IDPs, describing their ensembles and investigating their interactions. A student who has met the intended learning objectives of the course will gain:
1. Knowledge of and insight into practical and theoretical aspects of cutting-edge technical advances within the field of IDP, which are relevant for understanding their interactions at a molecular level
2. Skills in hands-on acquisition and interpretation of experimental and in silico data involving IDP, data presentation and method limitations and advantages
3. Competences on how to integrate the acquired relevant data obtained using a set of state-of-the art techniques for describing ensembles of IDPs and their interactions and how to apply this within their own projects
4. Knowledge about recent advanced techniques employed to the drugability of IDPs and the opportunity to discuss the methods and approaches with the invited responsible professors.
5. Developing intellectual agility, ability to see potential in ideas, and build the capacity to expand through critical thinking and problem solving as part of their current project and beyond
Participants:
Interested students are encouraged to apply from a wide variety of disciplines, including chemistry, biochemistry, biology, physics, computer science, human biology, neuroscience, and the pharmaceutical sciences. This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School), and for PhD Students from NorDoc member faculties. All other participants must pay the course fee.
Course directors
Professor Birthe B. Kragelund, BIO, SCIENCE, UCPH; bbk@bio.ku.dk
Professor Kristian Strømgaard, HEALTH, UCPH; kristian.stromgaard@sund.ku.dk
Dates
May 19th – May 24th, 2025
Registration:
Please register before March 1st, 2025.