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Overview
Key facts
- One of the major determinants of healthy GI functioning are the trillion bacteria (the microbiota) that live in our gut. These bacteria (and their genomes) affect many physiological processes, such as cell proliferation and differentiation, behaviour, mood, immune function and metabolism.
- More importantly, disturbances of the gut microbiota may contribute to a wide variety of diseases, including cancer, inflammatory diseases, metabolic diseases and responses to pathogens, and importantly for this course: psychiatric diseases.
- Due to rapid developments in genetic sequencing methods, we can now investigate bacterial life in the gut.
- This has led to a new line in cognitive, behavioural and psychiatric research that studies the gut microbiome-brain axis. However, as the field is still young, there is still a need for consensus on how to perform gut-microbiota bioinformatic and statistical analyses.
- Radboud University's Brain, Bacteria and Behaviour - Understanding the Gut-Brain Axis course is targeted at participants interested in designing, conducting and interpreting research on the associations between the gut microbiome variation and brain (i.e. MRI, EEG, MEG) and behavioural outcomes.
Programme Structure
Course include:
- We welcome participants from various backgrounds, including nutrition, medicine, (micro)biology, neuroscience, behavioural science and psychiatry.
- The course consists both of interactive lectures by international experts in the field, and practical analysis sessions using the MIA-verse framework (https://microbiome.github.io/).
- At the end of the course, participants will have a good understanding of the promises and pitfalls of studying the gut microbiome in relation to brain health, and will have the basic skills to design and conduct methodologically robust studies investigating the role of the gut microbiota in mental health, cognition and behaviour.
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
Participating in the course requires some prior experience with the analysis program R. We require, at least, knowledge on installing packages and basic data processing and formatting (e.g. creating data frames and loading them correctly). Students who are not familiar with this software are required to go through online tutorials before the course (e.g. chapter 1-3 of https://intro2r.com/). You may also choose one of the Radboud Summer Schools on R that take place before this course. In addition, it is desired to have an understanding of a variety of statistical methods (i.e. counts, distributions, hypothesis testing, regression, etc.) and research methods (animal or human experiments). A background in behavioural sciences/psychiatry or knowledge about neurobiology and anatomy of the brain is recommended (but not required). Supporting reading materials will be provided before the course.
Tuition Fee
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International
700 EUR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 700 EUR for the full programme during 5 days. -
National
700 EUR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 700 EUR for the full programme during 5 days.
Living costs for Nijmegen
800 - 1000 EUR /month
Living costs
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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