Course content: Through lectures given by experts in the domain, this course aims at giving students an integrated overview of nervous system development (evolutionary, morphogenetic, genetic, cellular, cognitive and pathological aspects). Particular emphasis will be placed on current advances in basic and biomedical research on neural stem cells.

Conference themes:

  • Nervous system development and evolution
  • Cellular signalling and neuronal differentiation in physiological or pathological contexts (emphasis on prion and Alzheimer diseases)
  • Adult neural stem cell lineage and activity
  • Adult neurogenesis in learning and memory
  • Cellular therapy of neurodegenerative diseases

At the end of the course, you should be able to:

  • Identify current challenges for basic and translational research in the field of neurodevelopment and neural stem cell biology.
  • Formulate problematics related to the field of neurodevelopment and neural stem cell biology, on the basis of attended conferences.
  • Describe, analyze, interpret and question scientific data linked to the attended conferences, by written and in scientific article-style format.

Prerequisites: No specific prerequisites in developmental Biology are required. Fundamentals of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Cell Signaling acquired in M1 during the core courses will be exploited in the context of neurodevelopment.

Bibliography: Specific articles will be provided during the course. Basic concepts of developmental genetics can be consulted in "Developmental Biology" from Scott F. Gilbert (Eleventh Edition) or in "Principles of Development" by Lewis Wolpert (Oxford University Press).



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