ETH - Institute of Biochemistry

The first year of the Bachelor program is supported by the IBC through frontal lectures given by the Professors and through associated practical laboratory-based courses. We redirect you to individual webpages for more information on "Grundlagen der Biologie IB" lectures and "Grundlagen der Biologie I (Praktikum)" practical courses.

The second year of the Bachelor program continues with both frontal lectures and practical courses. The IBC faculty participate in the "Grundlagen der Biologie IIA" lectures.

The third year of the Bachelor program is composed of a combination of Concept-Courses and Block-Courses. The goal of the Concept-Courses is to teach the fundamental principles and concepts underlying an entire field in Biology. The Block-Courses aim is to communicate scientific research as a process: using a combination of lectures, experimental work in the lab, discussion of literature, scientific presentations and other activities, a clearly defined biological problem will be analyzed in detail during a 12 day course.

If you have any questions concerning the format or content of a particular course, please contact either the coordinator listed below for each course, or the IBC lecturers.

The IBC currently organizes the following Concept-Courses:

Cellular Biochemistry I

coordinator: Ulrike Kutay
course number: 551-0319-00 (full-year course together with 551-0320-00)
link to university agenda: autumn semester 2012
course overview
course scripts require a nethz account

Cellular Biochemistry II

coordinator: Yves Barral
contact: Alicia Smith
course number: 551-0320-00 (full-year course together with 551-0319-00)
link to university agenda: spring semester 2011
course overview
course scripts will be available for the spring semester on the OLAT server.

Concepts in Modern Genetics

coordinators: Yves Barral and Alex Hajnal
course number: 551-0309-00
link to university agenda: autumn semester 2012
organized as a joint course with the University of Zurich
course overview
scripts will be available on the OLAT server (course name "BIO348".)

We currently offer the following Block-Courses:

Molecular mechanisms of cellular dynamics

coordinator: Benoit Kornmann
course number: 551-0339-00
link to university agenda: spring semester 2011
course overview
more course details provided at the beginning of the course

Methods in Cellular Biochemistry

coordinator: Paola Picotti
course number: 551-0336-00
link to university agenda: autumn semester 2012
course overview
more course details provided at the beginning of the course

RNA biology

coordinator: Claus Azzalin
course number: 551-1309-00
link to university agenda: autumn semester 2012
course overview
course details require a nethz account

Molecular mechanisms of cell growth and polarity

coordinator: Ruth Kroschewski
course number: 551-0347-00
link to university agenda: autumn semester 2012
course overview
course details require a nethz account (available a few weeks before the start of the course, participants only)

Physiology of Insulin Signaling: From Model Organisms to Human Disease

coordinator: Ernst Hafen
course number: 551-0371-00
link to university agenda: autumn semester 2012
course overview
more course details provided at the beginning of the course

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