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CNWY40090

Academic Year 2024/2025

Introduction to 'Omic' and Advanced Imaging Technologies (CNWY40090)

Subject:
Conway Institute
College:
Research Inst & Other Entities
School:
UCD Conway Institute
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Professor Matthias Wilm
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
Online
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

This course is designed to familiarise students with the principles, practice and application of the rapidly developing 'omic' and imaging technologies. It will comprise 10x3hr seminar-style sessions covering Proteomics - analysis techniques and visualisations, Metabolomics, Glycomics and Nutrigenomics, Clinical Applications in Proteomics, Genomics, including Single Cell Genomics, Imaging techniques in research and clinical diagnostics, including Ultrasound, Digital Pathology and Flow Cytometry.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

Indicative Learning Outcomes On completion of the course the students should:
- Proteomics: Will have seen how mass spectrometer are used to identify and quantify proteins and how this ability can be used in systems based biological research and clinical applications;
- Imaging for clinical diagnostics: Be familiar with the different imaging technologies used in clinics, their capabilities and limitations;
- Glycomics: Will be exposed to current techniques to analyse glycosilations on proteins, their representation in databases and which role glycosilations play in cancer biology. Finally, it will be demonstrated how glycosilations are characterised on pharmaceutical products.
- Metabolomics: Will learn about how metabolomic profiles are acquired and used in biological research
Clinical Applications in Proteomics: Will see how proteomic technologies are used in a clinical context
- Genomics: Will have seen the principals of genomics and its use in the identification of trait and disease;
- Flow cytometry: Be familiar with the concepts, the principles, practice and application of flow cytometry and cell sorting. Have a general understanding of sample preparation, the analysis and reanalysis of the data produced in a flow cytometer.
- Advanced Imaging technologies: Will have learned about the most recent advances in light and electron microscopic imaging and how it can be used in research to trace molecules in biological contexts.
- Advanced In Vivo Imaging: Will have learned what kind of imaging technologies are used in a clinical context
- Digital Pathology: Will have learned about the new tissue imaging techniques in histological pathology and its integration in clinical diagnosis

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Seminar (or Webinar)

30

Specified Learning Activities

40

Autonomous Student Learning

50

Total

120


Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Presentation of all the techniques available in the Conway to conduct biological research

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Equivalents:
Introduction to 'Omic' and Adv (CNWY40040)


 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered

Not yet recorded.


Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Online automated feedback

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Name Role
Professor Lorraine Brennan Tutor
Dr Kathleen Curran Tutor
Professor Aurelie Fabre Tutor
Dr Radka Fahey Tutor
Dr Alfonso Fernández Tutor
Ms Therese Herlihy Tutor
Professor Brendan Loftus Tutor
Ms Catherine Moss Tutor
Professor Stephen Pennington Tutor
Dr Dimitri Scholz Tutor

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Spring Once Off Offering 1 Week(s) - 23 Fri 10:00 - 11:50
Spring Once Off Offering 1 Week(s) - 25 Fri 10:00 - 11:50
Spring Once Off Offering 1 Week(s) - 24 Fri 13:00 - 15:50
Spring Once Off Offering 1 Week(s) - 25 Fri 13:00 - 15:50
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 24 Mon 10:00 - 10:50
Spring Once Off Offering 1 Week(s) - 23 Mon 10:00 - 11:50
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 25 Mon 13:00 - 15:50
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 26 Mon 14:00 - 15:50
Spring Once Off Offering 1 Week(s) - 24 Mon 14:00 - 16:50
Spring Once Off Offering 1 Week(s) - 23 Thurs 10:00 - 11:50
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 26 Thurs 10:00 - 12:50
Spring Once Off Offering 1 Week(s) - 24 Thurs 12:00 - 12:50
Spring Once Off Offering 1 Week(s) - 25 Thurs 14:00 - 16:50
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 26 Tues 14:00 - 15:50