• Infectious diseases (overview)
• Components of immune system (overview)
• Traditional methods in the diagnosis of infectious diseases (culture and microscope examination, antibody/antigen detection via immunoassay, nucleic acid-based amplification techniques)
• Pathogen-rapid molecular diagnostic (metabolomic approaches, microarray, next generation sequencing, mass spectrometry, T2 magnetic resonance, polymerase chain reaction electrospray ionization mass spectrometry)
o Representative diseases (Epatitis, tuberculosis, Malaria, HIV)
o Vaccines (inactivated, live-attenuated, subunit, recombinant, polysaccharide, conjugate, toxoid, viral vector, messenger RNA)
o Representative vaccines (BCG, COVID-19)
o Animal models as resources for studying infectious diseases (wild-type, immune compromised, xenograft model, genetically humanized, genetically diverse mice)
• Concepts of immuno-informatics (sequence retrieval and homology analyses, T and B-cell epitopes prediction, MHC binding epitopes predictions, conserved domain, mRNA secondary structure prediction, prediction of secondary and tertiary structure, evaluation of allergenicity and antigenicity sequences, prediction of protein solubility, reverse vaccinology)
• Development of diagnostic tools for pathogen identification
