27070 Immunology

2024/2025

Course information
Immunologi
English
5
BSc
Offered as a single course
Programme specific course (BSc), Life Science Engineering
Programme specific course (MSc), Biotechnology
Technological Core Courses, Life Science and Technology
Elective course (B Eng), Food Safety and Quality
Elective course (B Eng), Chemical and Bio Engineering
Elective course (B Eng), Chemical Engineering and International Business
Spring F1B (Thurs 13-17)
Campus Lyngby
The course consists of lecture videos (to be watched at home before the class room exercises), and a weekly overview lecture/discussion forum in the class room. Weekly exercises followed by electronic quizzes (multiple choice). The weekly quizzes are used to train/repeat difficult key elements. The course also contains a mandatory peer-reviewed 5-page written report that combines all central elements.
13 weeks
F1B
Written examination
Fulfillment of weekly electronic quizzes, hand-in, and peer-review of reports is a requirement for exam participation.
Written exam: 3 hours
All Aid - no access to the internet
7 step scale , internal examiner
27322
27022 , Theoretical knowledge of the most important areas in biochemistry/cell physiology. Able to solve general and biotechnological problems. Knowledge of the human physiology in order to provide insight into the interaction between biochemical processes in the organism.
Susanne Brix Pedersen , Lyngby Campus, Building 116B, Ph. (+45) 4525 2784 , sbp@bio.dtu.dk
Peter M. H. Heegaard , Lyngby Campus, Building 202, Ph. (+45) 3588 6241 , PMHH@dtu.dk
27 Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine
22 Department of Health Technology
At the Studyplanner
Please contact the teacher for information on whether this course gives the student the opportunity to prepare a project that may participate in DTU´s Study Conference on sustainability, climate technology, and the environment (GRØN DYST). More infor http://www.groendyst.dtu.dk/english
General course objectives
To make the student familiar with the basics of immunology including the integration between innate and adaptive immunity. To give the student the theoretical knowledge for reading and understanding immunological literature.
Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
  • Account for the basic structure of the immune system (cells and organs).
  • Describe the mode of operation of the innate immune system.
  • Describe the mode of action of the adaptive immune system, incl. specificity, diversity and memory.
  • Account for the development of B- and T-cells.
  • Describe the different receptor classes that are found in the immune system, and their mode of action.
  • Account for the different ligands in microorganisms that initiate activation of the immune system, and how this is mediated.
  • Explain the interplay between the innate and adaptive immune system in eradication of different types of pathogens.
  • Combine the knowledge about the cells of the immune system and their communication to an overall understanding of the immune systems reactions in health and disease.
Content
The molecular and cellular background for immune reactions. The innate immune system. Pattern recognition receptors. Synthesis, structure and function of immunoglobulins. The T-cell receptor. The major histocompatibility complex (MHC). Antigen-antibody reactions. Cell-mediated immunity. Cytokines and leucocyte activation and migration. Cell-mediated cytotoxic reactions.
Course literature
The course book is:
Janeway’s Immunobiology by Kenneth Murphy, Casey Weaver & Lesley Berg, 10th ed., WW Norton (ISBN 9780393884913) (earlier editions of the book cannot be used).
Last updated
02. maj, 2024