Syllabus
Tissue engineering
Type of course:
Optional
Syllabus - Tissue and protein engineering
Optional subject for the 3rd and 4th year medical students
Introduction to tissue engineering
• Tissue structure - overview
• Selected techniques and methods applied in tissue and protein engineering - summary (lasers, fluorescence, flow cytometry, FACS, electromigration and chromatographic methods, PCR, spectroscopic and spectrometric methods)
• Regenerative medicine and tissue engineering
• Cells in tissue engineering - principle sources, cells isolated from tissues, embryonic and adult stem cells
Tissue engineering
• Cartilage tissue engineering
• Bone tissue engineering
• Blood-vessel tissue engineering
• Skin covers
Protein engineering
• Biological membranes and lipid-protein interactions
• Protein structure and dynamics
• Computational protein structure modeling and its applications
• Verification of computational protein models using advanced biophysical techniques
• Mutations of selected amino acid residues and applications in protein structure analysis
Tissue engineering - practical demonstration I.
Tissue engineering - practical demonstration II.