For students in ODL mode, you will have to choose ONE of the following topic, record a video of your presentation and submit it online. Please make sure that you turn on your camera during your presentation. If your video file is too huge to be submitted, please upload it to your youtube account and share the link with us (by putting the link in a word file). 

For students in conventional mode, you have to choose ONE of the following topic and present it on site in IMU. 

a. Immunological Detection of Infectious Diseases

Current diagnostic methods for specific infections may have been briefly discussed in Part 2. However students will need to research in depth the broader spectrum of techniques (immunological & molecular) employed in detection of infectious diseases and factors that influence immunological testing results with regards to current practices and future trends. 

b. Vaccines

Students are expected to present the issues and latest development in vaccinology or immunotherapeutics in infectious diseases especially in the verification of vaccination response and vaccine development (field results interpretation with a model vaccine trial). They are expected to use online resources such as WHO, CDC, NIH, Vaccine therapeutics journal, http://f1000biology.com, http://www.the-scientist.com, nature.com and journals.

Infection and Immunity: Recent Trend

Students will need to choose a topic on infection and immunity and prepare the written assignment in a review article format. The topic chosen need to be approved by the module coordinator. Students need to choose a journal that they wish to publish and the format will be as specified by the target journal. Students will be given 3 months to complete the article and another 3 months for resubmission.