Programme courses

Compulsory general track course:

• Genes to Organisms (3 EC)

General track courses (choose at least one extra, 3 EC):

• Molecules & Cells (3 EC)
• Biophysics & Molecular Imaging (3 EC)

Advanced courses (choose ≥ 9 EC):

• Virology (3 EC)
• Biotechnology (5 EC)
• Plant-Environment Interactions (3 EC)
• Plant-Microbe Interactions (3 EC)
• Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Genomics (3 EC)
• Model Organism Genetics (1,5 EC)
• Developmental Genetics (1,5 EC)
• Light Microscopy (3 EC)
• Microbial Genomics (4,5 EC)
• Introduction Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry (1,5 EC)
• Applied Plant Biology (4,5 EC)
• Analytics and Algorithms for Omics Data (3 EC)
• Gene Expression, Epigenetics & Disease (3 EC)

For inquiries, please contact track coordinator Daan Weits. 

Compulsory general track course:

• Molecules & Cells (3 EC)

General track courses (choose at least one extra, 3 EC):

• Genes to Organisms (3 EC)
• Biophysics & Molecular Imaging (3 EC)

Advanced courses (choose ≥ 9 EC):

• Virology (3 EC)
• Applied Protein Crystallography (3 EC)
• Applied Cryo-Electron Microscopy (3 EC)
• Research in Intracellular Processes and Cell Organization (3 EC)
• Biotechnology (5 EC)
• Structural Bioinformatics & Modelling (4,5 EC)
• Chemical Biology (7,5 EC)
• Light Microscopy (3 EC)
• Introduction Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry (1,5 EC)
• Design of Anti-Infective Drugs (6 EC)
• Protein Biophysics (1,5 EC)

For inquiries contact track coordinator dr. Markus Weingarth or prof. dr. Anna Akhmanova. 

Compulsory general track course:

• Biophysics & Molecular Imaging (3 EC)

General track courses (choose at least one extra, 3 EC):

• Genes to Organisms (3 EC)
• Molecules & cells (3 EC)

Advanced courses (choose ≥ 9 EC):

• Advanced Biomolecular Mass Spectrometry (3 EC) (not offered in 2024-2025)
• Applied Cryo-Electron Microscopy (3 EC)
• Applied Protein Crystallography (3 EC)
• Advanced Microscopy (7,5 EC)
• Structural Bioinformatics & Modelling (4,5 EC)
• Light Microscopy (3 EC) 
• Advanced Biomolecular NMR (4,5 EC)
• Protein Biophysics (1,5 EC)

For students who do not fulfill the entry requirements for the general track course Biophysics and Molecular Imaging, there is a possibility to take the course Introduction to Biophysics & Molecular Imaging at the start of the academic year (1 EC).

For inquiries contact track coordinator dr. Harold MacGillavry or dr. Eric Huizinga.