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ONU Online-course «Antimicrobials and probiotics» (in cooperation with the MHH)

Part 1.

  Design of an online course, which reveals basic principles of development of antimicrobial preparations and means for microbiome correction, aiming to provide effective training of specialists in the field of microbiology, biotechnology and biomedicine in contemporary conditions of medical, social, political, and economic challenges.

  COVID-19 pandemic clearly demonstrated an urgent need in effective and fast instruments for training of highly qualified specialists in the fields of microbiology, virology, immunology, biotechnology and biomedicine. In the context of limited opportunities for face-to face contact between teacher and student audience, means of online learning and teaching came to the fore. The use of this instruments, on one hand, allowed maintenance of the teaching process, on the other hand, it revealed certain disadvantages and problems of online education. Lessons learned will be used for the development of the approaches to effective teaching of theoretical material and training of practical skills via integration of traditional methodical techniques with modern digital instruments of teaching (online platforms for surveys and testing, services for joint watching of video materials, interactive online instruments etc.). During the course development, methods for stimulation of attention of students and methods of prophylaxis of Zoom-fatigue will be also used to improve the effectiveness of mastery of the material.

  The course content aims to train students in theoretical basis of principles of development of antimicrobial and probiotic preparations, review of contemporary challenges related to their development, investigation of the mechanisms of their biological action and the mechanisms of microbial resistance and the approaches to its overcome, advantages and disadvantages of the use of antimicrobials and probiotics and ways of their improvement. This course will be included in the curriculum.

Part 2.

  In this course, students obtain theoretical knowledge of the two main types of primary liver cancer (PLC), - Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) and Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma (iCCA). The features of therapy and clinical aspects of PLC and alternative treatment of liver cancer using natural compounds (extracts of marine actinobacteria) are considered. The lectures aim to study practical approaches and methods of work. These are: work with HCC / iCCA cell cultures; Crystal violet assay staining (CVAS); Сell Сounting Kit-8 Assay(CCK-8); Flow cytometry (FACS); and senescence-associated beta-galactosidase (SA-β-Gal).

Assoc. Prof., PhD Oksana Zinchenko, senior researcher, PhD Irina Strashnova; from the MHH: Dr. rer. nat. Sofiya Kotsyuda, junior researcher Kateryna Potapenko.