Cell culture has become a essential tool for basic and translational research namely Medicine, Physiology, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical or Cellular and Molecular Biology. As an excellent alternative for the use of animal models, this technique has emerged as an essential tool. This course aims to give theoretical and pratical fundaments of cell and tissue culture techniques.
Theoretical Course
• Principles of cell culture
• Advantages and constraints of using cell cultures
• Problems and troubleshooting in cell cultures
• Proliferation and Viability Assays
• Flow citometry
• Statistics applied to cell culture assays
Pratical Course
• Thawing and Cryopreservation
• Cell Line subculture
• Primary cell cultures
• Contamination detection
• Viability, cytotoxicity and proliferation assays
• Co-cultures
• Database in cell culture assays
Registration Fees
Before 21st June - 200€
After 21st June - 230€
University of Coimbra Students - 180€
Full course attendance is limited to 25 participants
Only Theoretical Lectures (no limit of participants)
Students - 50€
University of Coimbra Students - 30€
Travel Directions
Address:
Polo III - Health Sciences Campus- Azinhaga Santa Comba, Celas- 3000-548 Coimbra
Coordinates:
Latitude: 40.219412 ou 40º 13' 10'' N Longitude: -8.417008 ou 8º 25' 1'' W
TO REACH IBILI - COIMBRA, PORTUGAL
By air
Portugal has two main airports: Lisbon Airport and Oporto Airport. Lisbon Airport is 200 km away from Coimbra while Oporto Airport is 130 km away.
Transfer from Lisbon Airport to Coimbra
By car
If renting a car at the airport, you can drive to Coimbra by taking the highway A1 direction North (200Km – 2 hours). You must leave the highway at the exit “Coimbra Sul”. Leaving the highway, you will cross the river until you find the sign “Hospitais”. Follow this sign and you will reach
IBILI right by the Coimbra University Hospital (HUC).
By train
Take a taxi to the train station “ORIENTE” and there you may take Long Distance trains (expected price 258). In order to know the timetables, you may consult the website: www.cp.pt, and then you must choose “Timetables” – “Alfa Pendular and Intercidades” - “Lisboa/Porto-Braga-Guimarães”. You will see then the timetable of departure at “LISBOA-ORIENTE” and the timetable of arrival at “COIMBRA-B”. At COIMBRA-B train station, you may take a taxi to AIBILI
(expected price 58).
Transfer from Oporto Airport to Coimbra
By car
If renting a car at Oporto airport, you can drive to Coimbra by taking the highway A1 direction South, Lisbon (120Km – 1 hour). You must leave the highway at the exit “Coimbra Norte”. At IC2, you must leave at the exit on your right “Coimbra” and at the roundabout, you must always follow the sign “Hospitais”. You will then reach AIBILI right by the Coimbra University Hospital (HUC).
By train
Take a taxi to the train station “CAMPANHÔ and there you may take Long Distance trains (expected price 168). In order to know the timetables, you may consult the website: www.cp.pt, and then you must choose “Timetables” – “Alfa Pendular and Intercidades” - “Lisboa/Porto- Braga-Guimarães”. You will see then the timetable of departure at “PORTO CAMPANHA” and the timetable of arrival at “COIMBRA-B”. At COIMBRA-B train station, you may take a taxi to IBILI (expected price 58).