Upon completing the practical course, students will possess the following skills.
They are able to
- plan a sequence of experiments aimed at the characterization of cell-material interactions (k2/k3);
- prepare materials for cell culture experiments (k3);
- perform a sequence of cell culture experiments and characterize cells with state-of-the-art methods and instrumentation (k3);
- analyze and summarize the obtained results in a report (k4/k5);
- critically discuss the results, also in the context of the scientific literature (k5).
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During the course, students will acquire knowledge in a subset of the following areas relevant to investigating cell-material interactions:
- biopolymers;
- thermodynamics and kinetics of molecular interactions;
- effect of forces on molecular interactions;
- protein mechanics;
- viscoelasticity;
- cytoskeleton;
- molecular motors;
- cell mechanics;
- cell adhesion and migration;
- force generation and mechanosensing in biological systems;
- mechanical properties of tissues;
- mechanical regulation processes in mammalian, plant and bacterial cells.
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