BIOS5812 – Advanced Physiology and Nevrobiology
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
The course provides advanced teaching in selected topics in physiology, neurobiology and cell biology and will provide insight into the research activities that take place in the Oslo area. The written study material will mainly be original research publications and overview articles. Content may vary from year to year.
Learning outcome
You will meet scientists and research groups in the Oslo area and learn about their research through lectures and demonstrations such as
- Comparative physiology, circulatory physiology, pain research and muscle physiology.
Cognitive neurobiology, cellular neurobiology, learning and memory.
You will deepen your knowledge in selected areas though reading, summarising and presenting published research papers handed out during the course.
?
Admission to the course
Students admitted at UiO must apply for courses in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.
Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may apply to take this course as a single course student.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants. ?
?
The courses BIOS5812 and BIOS9812 have joint admission. Applicants are ranked by the following criteria:
1. PhD candidates and master students at the MN faculty who have the course as part of the approved curriculum.?PhD candidates and master students at the Department of Biosciences are given priority.
2. Other PhD candidates and visiting PhD candidates.
3. Students with admission to single courses on master’s level and exchange students
4. Applicants are ranked by credits in each group; all applicants within 1st rank before applicants in 2nd etc. If admission is limited to a fixed number of participants, admission will be decided by drawing lots for students who are ranked equivalently.
Recommended previous knowledge
BIOS3800 – Human Physiology/MBV3050 – Human physiology (continued)
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with BIOS9812 – Advanced Physiology and Nevrobiology.
- 7 credits overlap with MBV4320 – Advanced Physiology and Cell Biology (discontinued).
- 7 credits overlap with MBV9320 – Advanced Physiology and Cell Biology (discontinued).
- 3 credits overlap with MBV4340 – Advanced neurobiology (discontinued).
- 3 credits overlap with MBV9340 – Advanced neurobiology (discontinued).
Teaching
- 2-3 days lectures and demonstrations each week.
- Self-study of distributed research articles especially towards the end of the teaching period. As part of the teaching, all PhD candidates?will hold an individual presentation of a scientific article for the other participants on the course.
Participation in the teaching is compulsory. There is a requirement of 80% attendance .
The course is taught if more than 10 students register.
Examination
Final written?exam which counts 100 % towards the final?grade.
Mandatory course work must be approved before the student can attend the exam.
It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses: BIOS9812 – Advanced Physiology and Nevrobiology, MBV4320 – Advanced Physiology and Cell Biology (discontinued), MBV9320 – Advanced Physiology and Cell Biology (discontinued).
Examination support material
No examination supprt material is allowed
Language of examination
The examination text is given in English.You may submit your response in Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or English.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F?is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.