Frazer Institute
Advanced Immunology Course

Advanced Immunology Course 2025

14 July 2025 8:45am–18 July 2025 5:00pm
 
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Registration: 
28 April 2025–9 July 2025

The University of Queensland Frazer Institute is pleased to offer a Winter Course in Advanced Immunology at the Translational Research Institute (TRI) in Woolloongabba.

Course will be run using COVID-safe practices.

The course offers advanced instruction in immunology and an opportunity to hear from international leaders and rising stars in the field of immunology.

The opportunity to win a Frazer Institute Honours Scholarship in Immunology*, valued at $3500.

Please register for one of the following ticket options:

  • Lectures + Practical ($180+gst)
    Available to enrolled undergraduate students from any university.
     
  • Lectures + Practical ($180+gst)
    Available to 1st year PhD students enrolled at UQ Frazer Institute.
     
  • Lectures only component ($120+gst)
    Available to external attendees (i.e. clinicians, industry, professionals).
     
  • Lectures only component ($90+gst)
    Available to enrolled postgraduate students from any university.
     
  • Lectures only component using RISQ option ($90+gst)
    Available for UQ Frazer Institute casual and professional staff, and students.

Please note: If you are a postgraduate student and would like to be waitlisted for any vacancies in the 'Lectures + Practical' course, please contact fi.admin@uq.edu.au. Enrol for the 'Lectures only' course and you will be notified if a place in the practical course becomes available.

Topics include (subject to minor changes):

  • Review of Immune system
  • Hematopoiesis
  • T-cells - T-cell tolerance
  • B-cells - B-cell Tolerance and antibody production
  • Dendritic cells and antigen processing/presentation
  • Microbiome/immune/environment interactions
  • Natural Killer Cells
  • Innate Lymphoid Cells
  • Macrophages and infection
  • Dendritic cells and antigen targeting
  • Tumour immunotherapy
  • Autoimmunity and tolerance
  • COVID-19
  • Development, such as embryology
  • Commercialisation and drug development

Technology seminars:

  • Fundamentals of flow cytometry
  • Fundamentals of microscopy
  • Spatial technologies
  • Multi-omics data analysis
  • Humanised mouse models

Practical course (afternoons) will include:

  • Cell culture
  • ELISA
  • Fluorescence microscopy
  • Luciferase assay
  • Flow cytometry
  • Live cell imaging
  • Data analysis
  • Data presentation

*Frazer Institute Honours Scholarship in Immunology eligibility criteria:
To be eligible for a Frazer Institute Honours Scholarship in Immunology you must be eligible to undertake Honours at UQ and enrol in an immunology themed Honours program at Frazer Institute within 1 year of the scholarship being awarded. For further information please contact fi.admin@uq.edu.au.