Lectures: The lectures will teach the students the fundamentals in cellular (development of lymphocytes in the bone marrow and thymus, differentiation and activation of leucocytes, leucocytes during immune responses) and molecular immunology (signal cascades, development of BCR and TCR, marker genes, homing). They will learn the basics of experimental work (relevant technologies e.g. knock-out, knock-in, conditional knock-out, regulatory cells, antibody and recombinant immunological molecules for therapies and experimental approaches. They will learn the basis of important immunological diseases.
Seminars: In the seminars the students will either present and discuss the scientific literature about an immunological mouse model, or prepare grants about a defined subject.