Learning objectives

  • Discover the world of biobanking in Human Health & Agro-environment
  • Become familiar with the different types of biocollections in human health, animal health, agronomy and environment
  • Understand the role of biobanking in medical research or other research fields

Course content*

  • Nice University Hospital's Laboratory of Clinical and Experimental Pathology: an integrated biopathology structure
  • Biobank business plan: costs and cost recovery
  • Personalized medicine in lung cancer: interest for biobanking
  • Evolution and record of 23 years of work on a multicentre network on a group of orphan diseases
  • Interface of biobanks with the Hospital World
  • Biobanking in the fields of agronomy and environment: issues and objectives
  • The plant-parasitic nematodes
  • Biodiversity and ex situ conservation
  • Insights on research and development in biological control with a particular emphasis on the management of biocontrol agents and the local initiative BRC EP-Coll
  • An example of a BRC from the microbial domain CIRM-INRA
  • Biobanking in human health
  • Cryobiology and samples transport
  • Biological resource centers for animals
  • Biobanking in the spotlight of national and international infrastructures
  • The Cells, a crucial tool for research, an essential biological resource for biobanks
*Disclaimer: Hours and module information are provisional and are subject to change