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Winter School
Discover how OneHealth connects human and environmental health into a unified framework. SupBiotech’s Winter School 2025 offers a hands-on approach, combining theory and practice to address critical global sustainability challenges. Through in-depth courses and labwork, you will explore the role of biotechnology in understanding and solving issues related to health and the environment. This three-week program in Paris is designed for students eager to enhance their knowledge and skills in sustainable health.
Program Overview
During this winter school, you’ll have the opportunity to dive into One Health, a key concept for sustainability. This program offers courses and practical training to understand the biological relationships between human and environmental health.
Courses content
Introduction to one health
- One Health concept
- Interactions of humans with the biosphere
- Biodiversity in the Anthropocene
- Challenges and limits of one health
Bridges between Human & Environmental health
- Environmental cues integration in diseases such as cancer, or neurodegenerative diseases.
- Environment imbalance and pandemics
- Microbiomes & health: what are microbiomes and what are their functions in human and elsewhere in the environment? How does metagenomics contribute to their study? What are the impact of humans on microbiomes? What are the future applications based on microbiomes in health and environment?
- Technologies that may have global impacts on one health: The place of CRISPR-Cas9.
Labwork training
To illustrate one health relationships, we invite you to take part into the evaluation of the putative impacts of pesticides both on human and soil health. This training encompass:
- An evaluation of the toxicity of pesticides in in vitro assays on human cells using genetic engineering, flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy techniques
- A metagenomic analysis of soil microbiomes exposed to pesticides: culturomic approaches, Initiation to bacterial and fungal microbiology (culture, identification, quantification), experimental design for a metagenomic study, sample collection, DNA extraction and library preparation using barcoding strategies, DNA sequencing using Oxford Nanopore technology, and data analysis (taxonomy, relative abundance, alpha- and beta-diversity)
- Exercise of systems thinking based on the knowledge and experience gathered during the workshop
Objectives
- Develop systems thinking capabilities for one health and beyond
- Acquire competencies required to bridge scientific approaches and one health
- Develop skills in evaluation of environmental impacts on human health using cellular models
- Acquire knowledge and technical skills for metagenomics and evaluation of environmental microbial biodiversity
Practical Information
When?
From January 6 to January 24, 2025 (3 weeks program).
Application deadline : November 15th 2024
How much?
Program fees: €2,650 (all-inclusive)
What you get?
- Certificate: Students will receive a certificate granting them the equivalent of 6 ECTS
- All-inclusive Program: the fee covers all courses, housing, breakfast and lunch on weekdays, French language courses, all cultural activities & trips, a 3-week Paris transport pass and more!
Contact
Mr. Allan GWOZDZ
International Admission Coordinator
[email protected]
English Proficiency
- Demonstrated English proficiency is a crucial requirement.
- Acceptable English proficiency levels include CECRL B2, IELTS 5.5/6, TOEIC 600, or TOEFL IBT 65.
- Alternatively, applicants can provide a certificate or attestation from their home university validating their proficiency in English.
Admission fee
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