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    Ultra-rare diseases offer insights into fascinating new biology: A focus on red blood cell production and the hormone erythropoietin.

    Semester: 

    Summer

    Offered: 

    2023
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    Course Overview:

    Each one of us has 25 trillion red blood cells, and we make 250 billion new red blood cells each day. Red blood cell production is tightly regulated by the production of erythropoietin, a hormone that is secreted by the kidneys but has its effect in the bone marrow. This nanocourse explores the history of erythropoietin, how its production is tightly regulated, rare diseases that dysregulate erythropoietin regulation, and new classes of medications that stimulate erythropoietin production. While we focus on erythropoietin, we will also think about and...

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    Ultra-rare diseases offer insights into fascinating new biology: A focus on red blood cell production and the hormone erythropoietin.

    Semester: 

    Summer

    Offered: 

    2023
    Register here.

    Course Overview:

    Each one of us has 25 trillion red blood cells, and we make 250 billion new red blood cells each day. Red blood cell production is tightly regulated by the production of erythropoietin, a hormone that is secreted by the kidneys but has its effect in the bone marrow. This nanocourse explores the history of erythropoietin, how its production is tightly regulated, rare diseases that dysregulate erythropoietin regulation, and new classes of medications that stimulate erythropoietin production. While we focus on erythropoietin, we will also think about and...

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    Lab Trek: Navigating the Final Frontier of Safety and Regulations

    Semester: 

    Spring

    Offered: 

    2023
    Exhaustive human, animal and environmental safety protocols are baked into our training as scientists, though safety culture remains tenuous in many academic spaces. Furthermore, with the rapid evolution and expansion of novel scientific techniques, entities and therapies, the frontiers of safety and regulation must evolve apace. This nanocourse aims to train and empower future scientists and leaders (in both academia and industry) to be critical about the...
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    Arduino for Biologists: Building scientific instruments using Arduino

    Semester: 

    Fall

    Offered: 

    2023

    Course description:

    The Arduino is a powerful and inexpensive digital microcontrollers that can be used to develop custom lab instruments. Many tasks that used to require a PC or expensive hardware can be put together with an Arduino and tens of dollars worth of parts. Developing microcontroller-based tools allows researchers to automate and scale up aspects of their research that were previously unfeasible.

    This nanocourse will cover the basics of programming an Arduino microcontroller and interfacing with sensors and actuators in order to build simple lab...

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    Intro to Anaerobe Physiology

    Semester: 

    Winter

    Offered: 

    2024

    Co-hosted by the Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative, the Massachusetts Host-Microbiome Center, and the Harvard Graduate Program in Bacteriology.

    Course Overview:
    Life on planet earth has been dominated by anaerobes, from the earliest forms of life to the complex microbial communities that comprise your internal gut microbiota. This nanocourse will...

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    Metabolomics for cancer research – Theory and practice

    Semester: 

    Spring

    Offered: 

    2024

    Course Description
    The field of cancer metabolism has grown tremendously in the past decade, contributing major advancements in our understanding of how to diagnose and treat tumors. Despite this, some of the tools required to study cancer metabolism remain out of reach for many labs. This is particularly true for metabolomics, as it...

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    Analyzing Genomic Data: Keeping the Patient in Mind

    Semester: 

    Spring

    Offered: 

    2024

    Course description

    Every day, patients are tested for disease-causing genetic variants or treated with anti-cancer medications based on the identification of actionable mutations. The foundation for much of this clinical genomic testing comes from the basic science laboratory. As researchers, it is important to keep in mind the clinical relevance of our work and how our findings may...
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