Teaching

Human Genetics and Infectious Diseases



 Directors :  Dr Laurent Abel
Faculty of Medecine Necker and Université René   Descartes-Paris 5 – Inserm U 550
Dr Luis Quintana-Murci
Human Evolutionary Genetics Unit

This course is addressed to medical doctors or science students with a Master level (particularly in genetics or immunology).

Presentation

This course will be taught in English.
The classroom is equiped with 30 PCs and each student will have its own computer for practicals.
The main objective of this course is to present the current state of the art in research addressing two questions of fundamental and medical interest:
  • How have infectious diseases shaped the patterns of human genetic variability throughout history?
  • How can we nowadays identify host genetic variants responsible for susceptibility/resistance to infectious diseases?
In order to present these two different, but highly complementary, aspects of human genetics and infectious disease, the course will outline the different methods and strategies used to address these questions as well as different examples of research in this field. The main parts will be:
  • Human population genetics, human genome variability, natural selection exerted by pathogens on host genes
  • General methods used to identify human genetic factors involved in susceptibility/resistance to infectious agents
  • Examples include: malaria, mycobacterial infections, HIV, oncogenic virus infections (HPV, HTLV-1 and HHV-8).

Full-time, except Saturdays, February 18, to 22, 2013 (examinations included)

Number of Students: 30

Closing-date for applications: October 15, 2012

online registration

Tuition fees

Diplomas

  • The Institut Pasteur Diploma will be awarded to students having successfully completed the final examination,
  • Credits for Masters (second year) from Université Pierre et Marie Curie for students registered at this university (masters),
  • Credits, exclusively for students registered in Master’s training in Public Health - Pasteur/ Cnam of Public Health (Pasteur-Cnam),
  • Module(s) from Doctoral Schools (about modules)

Members of the Teaching Committee

L. Abel (Faculté de Médecine Necker et Université Paris-Descartes - Inserm U 550), A. Alcais (Inserm, Faculté de Médecine Necker et Université Paris-Descartes), J.-L. Casanova* (Université Paris-Descartes), E. Coeffier-Vicart (Institut Pasteur), F. Demenais (Inserm et Université d’Evry-Val d’Essonne), A. Fontanet (Institut Pasteur), E. Heyer (Muséum et Université Paris-Diderot), C. Parsot (Institut Pasteur) and L. Quintana-Murci (Institut Pasteur).

* University Representative