Teaching - Universität Regensburg

The Department of Genetic Epidemiology contributes teaching to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Regensburg. This includes lectures and practical course work within the curriculum of the Medical School and the Molecular Medicine Bachelor and Master program as well as professional training for doctoral students and scientific staff of the University and University Hospital.

For the Bachelor- and Master program "Molecular Medicine", we provide lectures and practical course work for statistical data analyses (basics of statistics, regression methods). We also provide a module on "Molecular Epidemiology", which includes:

introduction into the conduct of epidemiological studies
aspects of ethics and data protection
standardized operating procedures
processing of bioprobes for molecular research questions
data entry, data management, and quality control
biomarker for prediction, diagnosis, and therapy monitoring
statistical aspects to interpret clinical and observational studies
basics of Genetic Epidemiology
statistical approaches and quality control for the analyses of genetic data
genome-wide association studies for dichotomous and quantitative phenotypes
strategies of stratified analyses and interaction analyses
meta-analyses
biological interpretation of genome-wide association studies results
handling of high-dimensional data

Prerequesite of this module are the compulsory courses of the program and an interest in working with large and complex data.