Course 53rd Sandbjerg Meeting on Membrane Transport

ECTS: 2.2

Course leader: Jeppe Prætorius

Language: English

Graduate school: Faculty of Health

Graduate program: BIO

Course fee: 2,640.00 DKK

Status: Course is finished

Semester: Spring 2024

Application deadline: 15/02/2024

Cancellation deadline: 29/02/2024

Course type: Residential course

Start date: 06/05/2024

Administrator: Thilde Møller Risgaard

Waiting list:

Applicants are initially placed on a waiting list. Seats are allocated ad hoc up until the application deadline.

The course 53rd Sandbjerg Meeting on Membrane Transport is being offered by the Graduate School of Health, Aarhus University, spring 2024.

Criteria for participation: University degree in medicine, dentistry, nursing, or Master’s degree in other fields and/or postgraduate research fellows (PhD students and research-year medical students).

Requirements for participation: Abstract submission, preparation of poster and oral presentation

Aim: State of the art lectures of current topics in membrane transport. Focus on technical, conceptual and methodological innovations in the field of membrane transport research.

Learning outcomes: 

  1. Networking with national and international peers of your research area
  2. Practice oral presentation skills and in depth discussion of scientific questions
  3. Update your knowledge on new biological concepts
  4. In depth discussion of technological/method approaches to study your scope of questions.

Workload: The full workload of the course is expected to be 22 hours excluding preparation. In order to obtain 2.2 ECTS, all student are expected to prepare an abstract, a poster and – unless the project starts in 2024 – an oral presentation of 10 minutes (with following 5 minutes for discussion). Newly started students will be offered co-chairman ship at the oral sessions.

Content: Physiology, Pathophysiology, Integrative Physiology in perspective of functional or dysfunction transport and signaling across biomembranes.

Instructors: 18 expert associate and full professors within the research field of membrane transport from Danish and European universities.

Venue: Sandbjerg Estate, Sønderborg

Participation in the course is without cost for:

  • PhD students and research-year students from Health, Aarhus University

Accommodation fee:

  • PhD students enrolled at partner universities of the Nordoc collaboration. A payment for accommodation of DKK 1342.50 will be charged.
  • PhD students from other institutions in the open market agreement for PhD courses. A payment for accommodation of DKK 1342.50 will be charged.
  • Other staff member at Aarhus University: DKK 2640.00 course fee incl. accommodation.
  • Others not afflliated with Aarhus University: DKK 2640.00 course fee incl. accommodation.

(Price may be subject to minor changes)

Course dates:

  • 06 May 2024 12:00 - 22:00
  • 07 May 2024 08:30 - 22:00
  • 08 May 2024 08:30 - 13:00