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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

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

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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Introduction to R

Semester: 

Summer

Offered: 

2022

Course Description and Assignments

This 4-session, online, hands-on nanocourse will instruct participants to using R and RStudio. R is a simple programming environment that enables the effective handling of data, while providing excellent graphical support. RStudio is a tool that provides a user-friendly environment for working with R. After this workshop participants can expect to be comfortable with the basics of data wrangling and plotting using R.

Workshop segments will address the following:

  • ...
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Graduate TF Training in the Biomedical Sciences

Semester: 

Summer

Offered: 

2022

 

Course description

This nanocourse provides an introduction to the skills and frameworks necessary for success as a graduate student teaching fellow (TF). After completing this 6 hour introduction, students will be able to:

  • Describe core pedagogy concepts including backwards design, formative assessment, active learning, alignment, and inclusive teaching
  • Identify ways these core concepts may influence their work as graduate student TFs
  • Demonstrate...
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Public Health 101 Series: Introduction to Public Health

Semester: 

Summer

Offered: 

2021

Course Description

Public Health is an inherently multidisciplinary field, drawing on skills and knowledge across the biological, quantitative, and social sciences. The aim of this nancourse is to introduce students, researchers, and healthcare providers to public health as a field of research and as an approach to framing and addressing health challenges. Through lectures and small group experiential learning, students in this nanocourse will gain a...

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Tools for Reproducible Science: Collaborate and share your data analysis effectively with Git and RMarkdown

Semester: 

Summer

Offered: 

2021

Course Description and Assignments
This online hands-on nanocourse will instruct participants on several best practices for reproducible research in Bioinformatics, including:

  • How to generate reports for your analyses using RMarkdown...
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Light-Sheet Microscopy for Neuroscientists

Semester: 

Summer

Offered: 

2020

Course Directors: Aurelien Begue, PhD (HMS) and Jason DeBruyne, PhD (MSM)

Course Description: Fluorescent light-sheet microscopy is a versatile microscopy technique that has diverse applications to neuroscience research and offers many advantages to other imaging methods. This nanocourse, offered as part of the MAHPING collaboration between Harvard Medical School and Morehouse School of Medicine, will introduce neuroscientists who have little or no experience with light-...

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Arduino for Biologists: Building scientific instruments using Arduino

Semester: 

Summer

Offered: 

2020

Director: John Assad

Instructors: Ofer Mazor, Pavel Gorelik, Brett Graham

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...

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Analyzing Genomic Research Data: Keeping the patient in mind

Semester: 

Summer

Offered: 

2020

As researchers, it is important to keep in mind the clinical relevance of our work. In these sessions, participants will work together in small groups to analyze genomic research data utilizing publicly available online tools. This nanocourse will give participants a sense of how research is linked with the clinical aspect and how researchers can incoporate patient data into their own research. Throughout the sessions, participants will also learn about research and clinical careers that they may be interested in pursuing. 

Learning Objectives...

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