Keywords

General description

Molecular virology is an advanced course on structure and function of viruses partucularly on their molecular biology and genetics.

Learning outcomes

The students learn to understand viruses as particles containing inside the capsid a nucleic acid genome that make them infectious. In addition, they will learn viral inbuilt developmental programmes, representing paradigms for the broader understanding of gene expression and development.

Contents

Bacteriophages, plant and animal viruses will be covered, but with an emphasis on major classes of pathogenic viruses exemplifying different mechanistic principles, including retroviruses, herpesviruses and picornaviruses. Regulatory circuitry, viral evolution, evasion of host defenses and vaccine development will also be addressed.

Teaching methods

Evaluation

Belongs to following study modules

2013–2014

Teaching

Archived Teaching Schedule. Please refer to current Teaching Shedule.

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