Course Catalog 2009-2010 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Matti Karp

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 with special emphasis on eukaryotes.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Students will study literature in trends in eukaryotic 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 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

Correspondence of content

Additional information

The course is organized every second year in collaboration with UTA. The course will be organized in the academic year 2009-2010 in UTA's period 3. Additional info about course schedule can be found at http://www.uta.fi/imt/ under Education --> Bioteknologian koulutus.

Last modified	13.03.2009
Modifier	Nina Virolainen