Course Catalog 2009-2010
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Course Catalog 2009-2010

BIO-2756 Trends in biotechnology, 4 cr

Person responsible

Matti Karp, Ville Santala

Implementations

No implementations

Requirements

Full participation to the lectures. Each participant makes analyses of selected journal articles.
Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

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 prokaryotic 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.     


Evaluation criteria for the course

Participation on each session.

Assessment scale:

Evaluation scale passed/failed will be used on the course

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Other literature           Research articles published in peer-reviewed journals      English  


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Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

Additional information

The course is organized every second year and will be lectured next time in the academic year 2010-2011. 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.

Last modified13.03.2009
ModifierNina Virolainen