Education and Study programmes
Contact
The education program coordinator for the department is dr. Madeleine J.M. Nivard, Phone 071-5269605, e-mail nivard@lumc.nl
Education
The department of Human Genetics participates in the Medicine and Biomedical Sciences curricula. These curricula are composed of courses with a duration of 3 - 8 weeks. Below is a list of the courses to which our department substantially contributes.
Medicine
- From Cell to Molecule (module committee), year 1
- Mechanisms of Disease 2 (module committee), year 2
- Several half minors (coordinator/member of module committee), year 3
- Practical Research Skills, Master
Biomedical Sciences
- Biomedical Research in Medicine, year 1
- Medical Genetics (module coordinator), year 1
- Metabolism 1 and 2, year 1
- Molecular Biology (module committee), year 1
- Several half minors (coordinator/member of module committee), year 3
- Molecular Biology and Oncology (module committee), year 3
- Radiation Protection (module committee), year 3
- How to write a research proposal, Master
- Course on Laboratory Animal Science, Master
- Several FOS-courses (coordinator/member of module committee), Master
- Cardiometabolic Disease
- From Genetic Disease to Functional Genomics
- Genome (In)Stability, Cancer and Ageing
- Translational Neurogenetics
Research projects/Internships
For information on various research projects at the department of Human Genetics for students of the university or of the university of applied sciences (Hogeschool), please contact the education program coordinator, dr. Madeleine J.M. Nivard nivard@lumc.nl
Study programmes
The department of Human Genetics has vacancies for research technicians, PhD students and postdocs. For an overview of the vacancies you are invited to consult the LUMC vacancy page
Graduate and Postgraduate courses
| Course | Organisation | Coordinator |
| Basic and Translational Oncology | MGC*/Molecular Medicine | prof.dr. Peter Devilee |
| Code and data management with Git | MGC | dr. Mihai Lefter |
| Epigenetic Regulation in Health and Disease | MGC | prof.dr. Haico van Attikum, dr. Lucia Daxinger |
| Genome Maintenance and Cancer | MGC | dr. Harry Vrieling, dr. Jaap Jansen, dr. Madeleine Nivard |
| GitLab | MGC | dr. Mihai Lefter |
| Mutagenesis & Carcinogenesis | PET** | dr. Harry Vrieling, dr. Jaap Jansen, dr. Madeleine Nivard |
| Next Generation Sequence Data Analysis | MGC | prof.dr. Johan den Dunnen |
| Practical Linux | MGC | dr. Mihai Lefter |
| Protein aggregation disorders: from clinic to therapy | MGC | dr. Ronald Buijsen, dr. Vered Raz, dr. Willeke van Roon-Mom |
| Python programming | MGC | dr. Mihai Lefter |
| Scripting for Life Science Researchers | MGC | dr. Jeroen Laros, dr. Mihai Lefter |
| Share your research with a broad audience | MGC | dr. Madeleine Nivard |
| Single cell analyis | MGC | dr. Susan Kloet, dr. Ahmed Mafouz |
| Technology Facilities: Genomics and transcriptomics | MGC | dr. Susan Kloet |
| Transgenesis and Gene Targeting | MGC | dr. Peter Hohenstein, dr. Lucia Daxinger |
Organisation: contact person dr. Madeleine Nivard
Coordinator: member of the program committee on behalf of the Department of Human Genetics
* MGC: Research school Medical Genetics Centre South-West Netherlands
** PET: Postgraduate Education in Toxicology
In collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences Leiden (Hogeschool Leiden) various postgraduate courses are organised. For course program see Hogeschool Leiden .