Lund University

This course covers the different types of membrane proteins, how they can be overexpressed and purified from a host cell, and how different methods can be used to analyze their structure and function. The course includes predictions and practical investigations of protein folding in a membrane, as well as a shorter project where you under guidance plan and carry out cloning and overexpression of a membrane protein of your choice.  Course lectures address the three different main types of membrane proteins and associated cellular processes: transport and transporters, signal transduction and receptors, bioenergetics, and photosynthetic and respiratory proteins. Lectures dealing with methods for theoretical modeling of membrane protein structure, fusion protein techniques, X-ray crystallography, heterologous expression, solubilization, and purification of membrane proteins are also included in the course. Laboratory sessions, exercises, and project work are used to determine the transmembrane topology of a protein starting with a model of the protein based on sequence information and theoretical methods. This is followed by experimental determination using genetic construction and expression of a fusion protein of the membrane protein and a marker protein in a bacterial system which is subsequently analyzed.  An individually planned and executed project on protein expression provides practice in literature searching, project planning, and documentation. The project is to be concluded with a poster presentation.

This course examines the link between migration and development. A large share of the migration in the world goes from the periphery in the world system to core states. The course covers the causes of migration, the effect of migration on the sending countries, and the ways in which the unequal relations between the countries influence migration. Migration is studied on a micro-level, as an individual decision to move to another country, or as a family strategy in sending regions to increase income. The course also considers how these remittances affect communities in sending regions. The social networks between sending and receiving countries drive migration and how states influence migration streams are also studied. The course identifies the causes of migration and how migration affects both sending and receiving countries.

The course consists of two modules. Module 1, an introduction to gender science and its application to physics is worth 4.5 credits and reviews different theories within gender research. Fields like the learning of physics, the history of physics, knowledge production, and the culture of physics are analyzed from a gender perspective. Both statistical, quantitative, and qualitative analyses from socio-psychological, anthropological, and sociological studies are presented to describe sex segregation, balance of power, culture, and knowledge in physics. Module 2, a project on a gender perspective on physics is worth 3 credits. Projects include a gender analysis of one's activities in physics or an example from the department they study in or a literature study or similar in relevant fields for the course.

The course offers a critical reading of the work undertaken by all international criminal courts and tribunals. Throughout the course, the basic tenets of Criminal Justice and their application at the international level to discover the fragility of the international legal system, its interplay with global, regional, and local politics, and the challenges of reconciling justice with the interest of states are studied. Topics covered include the selection of cases at the international level, the relation of courts with states (participants and by-standers), the setting of goals and the measuring results of courts, determining the societal impact that courts have in the international community, determining the impact courts have on individuals (end-users) such as victims and accused, the role of international criminal courts in the writing/re-writing of history, the effectiveness of courts in responding to ever-growing international criminality and the alternatives available to address the same. The course presents challenging debates regarding the state of international criminality and justice, tests criticisms in the field with real-life practice, and sparks debates regarding solutions or alternatives to all the limitations of the international criminal justice system.

The course covers inter-religious relations between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from a variety of thematic and interdisciplinary perspectives. The content provides an understanding of the historical roots and contemporary effects of the relations between the three religions. The basics of inter-religious relations are learned and analyzed. Themes covered include gender and sexuality, eschatology and apocalypticism, the intersection of religious and civil law in Western societies, and the challenges of maintaining individual and community identity in a shifting cultural, social, and political landscape.

The course is based on a religious studies perspective to discuss the concepts of antisemitism and islamophobia concept which refers to fears and prejudices relating to Jews, Judaism, Muslims, and Islam. By focusing on the historical, theological/ideological, political, and cultural aspects of antisemitism and islamophobia, the historical roots and the contemporary forms of these fears and prejudices are explored. The course starts by problematizing the concepts of antisemitism and islamophobia and continues by analyzing how these concepts have been used to designate "the enemy" and in processes of religious, cultural, and political "alienation". Thereafter, the historical roots and ideological contexts in which antisemitism and islamophobia arise and develop are studied. The course concludes by focusing on modern and contemporary manifestations of antisemitism and islamophobia, such as, how conspiracy theories are used to heighten hostility towards Jews and Muslims today.

The course presents an application-focused and hands-on approach to learning neural networks and reinforcement learning. It is an introduction to deep learning methods, presenting a wide range of connectionist models that represent the current state-of-the-art. Topics include the fundamentals of machine learning and the mathematical and computational prerequisites for deep learning; feed-forward neural networks, convolutional neural networks, and the recurrent connections to a feed-forward neural network; a brief history of artificial intelligence and neural networks, and reviews open research problems in deep learning and connectionism.  Entry requirements include 90 credits in statistics and a course in linear algebra.

Today’s businesses need to continuously develop their ways of organizing and leading, as well as understand how to manage innovation to secure the development and growth of the companies. This course develops a theoretical knowledge base and practical ability in innovation management. The objective is also to increase the knowledge of how considering the conditions and processes of innovation management can contribute to long-lasting advantages and an increase in company competitiveness.

This course promotes theoretical knowledge as well as applied knowledge adapted to different contexts regarding strategic management from a general manager’s perspective. The aim is further to develop an ability to analyze the strategies of an organization, the strategy formulation and implementation processes, and apply that knowledge in practical decision-making. The course begins with an overview of the different schools of strategy, the classical business policy theory, followed by the "industrial organization economics" and ends with the so-called “resourced-based view” on resources and competencies as the key basis for competitiveness. From there, the course discusses different situations and aspects with greater importance for strategic management, especially in an international business context. To highlight the differences in demands on the leadership in different kinds of organizations strategic leadership in big corporations as well as in small new ventures and public organizations with different types of objectives are discussed.

The course reviews number theory including the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, modular, and arithmetic; groups including definition, basic examples of groups, subgroups, normal subgroups, factor groups, isomorphisms, and homomorphisms, Lagrange's theorem, permutation groups, symmetric and alternating groups, finitely generated Abelian groups; rings including definition, basic examples of rings, isomorphisms and homomorphisms, ideals, factor rings, polynomial rings, factorization of polynomials as products of irreducible polynomials; and fields including characteristic, simple field extensions, finite fields.