Institute Pasteur Call for Applications: New MOOC edition on Malaria
Institute Pasteur has launched a new online edition of MOOC on Malaria starting on October 19, 2020, organized in 6 weeks and each week is composed of 5 sessions. The MOOC on Malaria is part of Institut Pasteur’s new online diploma DNM2IP (standing for Diplôme Numérique des Maladies Infectieuses de l’Institut Pasteur).
The objective of this MOOC is to provide participants with a glimpse of the wide range of disciplines involved and questions addressed in malaria research. It goes from basic cell and molecular biology of malaria parasites and its different life cycle stages to field and hospital-based clinical research on malaria pathology. It covers the application of the latest genomics-based technologies to investigate parasite biology to translational research on development of new control tools, including drugs and vaccines. It also deals with malaria epidemiology and clinical research, to better understand malaria as a public health problem.
Enrollement types:
To follow this course, you have the choice between two formulas.
- The DISCOVERY path gives you access to videos, quizzes and exchanges in the forum.
- Additionnaly, the QUALIFYING path gives you access to a qualifying exam.
Target audience:
This MOOC is aimed at people interested in malaria and in understanding the complex biology of malaria parasites, how they cause the disease and how one can try to develop new tools including drugs and vaccines to combat it.
Course syllabus:
- Week 1: History, Epidemiology and clinical presentation of malaria
- Week 2: Life cycle and cellular biology of Plasmodium
- Week 3: Genome and molecular genetics
- Week 4: Immunity to and vaccines against malaria
- Week 5: Drugs against malaria
- Week 6: Mosquitoes, Plasmodium vivax and malaria elimination
Read more here.
End of registration December 7, 2020.
