The course is aimed at postgraduate students at universities around the world. Applications are now open and must be sent by 20th April 2024 to . The Erasmus+ Program supports this BIP and has 15 eligible scholarships for one week of in-person attendance at UMinho.
The program will address the following topics:
Theoretical programme
- Introduction to Fungal Diseases and One Health Issue
- Epidemiology of Fungal Diseases and Environmental Changes
- Diagnosis and treatment of fungal infections
- Fungal virulence factors and host-pathogen interactions
- Introduction to next-generation sequencing methods for studying fungal genetic variations
Laboratory classes programme
- Use of PCR to identify different fungal species
- In vitro model of macrophage-like cell lines to study host-fungus interactions
This course is organized by the Research Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology (CBMA) and the Department of Biology of the School of Sciences of UMinho.
