Department of Plant Biology | |||||||||||||
Earliest Possible Year | |||||||||||||
Duration | 1 semester | ||||||||||||
Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
Course Level | Joint BSc and MSc | ||||||||||||
Examination | written examination Some Aid allowed Description of Examination: pass/fail, internal examiner | ||||||||||||
Organisation of Teaching | The course consists of lectures, journal clubs, and computer exercises | ||||||||||||
Block Placement | 3-week course June | ||||||||||||
Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||
Optional Prerequisites | 057518 Plant Biology 058568 Theme: Experimental Molecular Biology | ||||||||||||
Course Objectives | |||||||||||||
The course deals with Plant Biotechnology in the postgenomic era. In addition to basic textbook knowledge, the students will be educated in the non-textbook knowledge (as the books are not yet written) to whole-system approaches to basic questions. Computer projects will give the students hands-on experience on analysis of post genomic plus ensure that the students are familiar with relevant web sites in plant science. | |||||||||||||
Course Contents | |||||||||||||
The course consists of lectures in the current technology on generation of mutants, sequence analysis, generation of phylogenetic trees, microarray systems, proteomics, metabolite profiling, as well as transcriptional gene silencing. Current literature will be discussed in 'journal clubs'. In the afternoon, computer projects will give the students hands-on experience on analysis of array data, metabolite profiles, proteomics, sequences in phylogenetic trees with bootstrap values, plus ensure that the students are familiar with relevant web sites in plant science. The course will enable the students to make use of the tools available in the postgenomic era. | |||||||||||||
Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||
The course consists of lectures, colloquia, computer exercises. | |||||||||||||
Course Litterature | |||||||||||||
Scientific papers handed out at the course start, lecture and exercise handouts | |||||||||||||
Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||
Barbara Ann Halkier, bah@life.ku.dk, Department of Plant Biology/Plant Biochemistry Laboratory, Phone: 35333342 | |||||||||||||
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Study Committee NSN | |||||||||||||
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