Courses for MD and PhD students

Comparative and functional neuroanatomy with particular reference to the human and the rodent brain (Summer Semester)

Location: Seminar Room in the Institute of Pharmacology, 2. floor, Peter-Mayr-Str. 1

Dates: On request. Send email to Prof Klimaschewski if you want to participate

Aims:

• apply the comparative method to understand the evolution of the nervous system
• understand the phylogeny of the brain – from fish to humans
• study the homology and analogy between species (phylogeny versus adaptation)
• aquire the anatomical overview of the nervous system and identify major parts of the human and rodent brain
• analyze anatomical and physiological relationships in all major functional brain systems
• gain knowledge about brain evolution, adaptation and behavior
• understand and learn to perform basic neuromorphological laboratory techniques

Neuronal imaging techniques (Summer and Winter Semester)

Location: Division of Neuroanatomy, Müllerstraße 59, 1st floor

Dates: On request. Send email to Dr Irschick if you want to participate

Aims:

• review neurohistological laboratory methods 
• learn about the different microscopical techniques
• understand the basics of image acquisition and image manipulation
• perform morphometry of neurons and glial cells after standard and fluorescent labeling of cultures or sections
• analyze cell-by-cell wavelength-specific stained area, measure integrated and average intensities, perform cell counts in binary images, determine axonal length and branching
• learn about the Biooptics facility at MUI

For SPIN students a seminar about 'Functional Neuroanatomy' is offered in the winter semester 2010 (Course #042035) by Professores Klimaschewski, Schwarzer and Ferraguti. Handouts for this course and for the SPIN/PhD basic lecture 'Signal Processing in Neurons' (part 'Neuronal and Glial Cell Biology') are available on request.