Courses persons responsible
Matti Karp

Lecturers
Matti Karp
Ville Santala
Urpo Lamminmäki

Objectives
Teach students to go beyond text books and to study scientific literature in molecular biology and biotechnology.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Students will study literature in trends in biotechnology and present what they have learned from molecular evolution techniques and applications of nucleic acids, modification of proteins and their applications in measurements and related studies. The utilization of procaryotic organisms in various biotechnological applications is emphasized. The first part consists on 16 hours of so-called journal club presentations and the latter part is discussions and presentations on modern molecular technologies to study protein structure and function and applications thereof.

Requirements for completing the course
Full participation to the lectures. Each participant makes analyses of selected journal articles.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Prerequisites
Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

Additional information about prerequisites
In depth course for 4th and 5th year students.

Remarks

The part in period 3 is given by docent Urpo Lamminmäki, University of Turku during three consecutive days, four hours each. Lecture material consists of journal articles to be delivered from the Department of Environmental Engineering and Biotechnology, English. The course is organized every second year.

Distance learning

- Contact teaching: 50 %
- Distance learning: 50 %
- Proportion of a student's independent study: 0 %

Scaling

Methods of instruction	Hours
Lectures	70
Learning diary, portfolio and other written work	36
Total sum	106

Additional information related to course

Last modified	22.08.2007
Modified by	Saila Kallioinen