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Module Guide before WS 2016/17

Modul LS3150

Molecular Biology (MolBio)

Duration:


1 Semester
Turnus of offer:


each winter semester
Credit points:


6
Course of studies, specific field and terms:
  • Bachelor MLS 2009 (compulsory), life sciences, 5th semester
Classes and lectures:
  • Molecular Biology (seminar, 2 SWS)
  • Molecular Biology (lecture, 2 SWS)
Workload:
  • 120 Hours private studies
  • 60 Hours in-classroom work
Contents of teaching:
  • Lectures: Lectures will be oriented with respect to chosen cases of eminent pathophysical, agricultural, technological and methodogical conditions. Typically, 5 coherent blocks will be lectured.
  • Basics: genetic engineering and gene regulation
  • Growth and aging: molecular processes during ontogenetic differentiation, maintenance and loss of function during aging of cells and organisms
  • Nucleic-acids: molecular basis, polymorphism, RNA-regulation. Diagnostic and possible therapeutic aspects
  • Molecular biology of plants: molecular basis as well as economic and ecological aspects of transgenic plants and herbicide resistance
  • Gene-therapeutic approaches and recombinant vaccines
  • Exercises: Reading of scientific articles and oral presentation
  • Conceptual design of publications
  • English as lingua franca in science
Qualification-goals/Competencies:
  • Students are able to present basic steps of genetic engineering
  • They can explain basic mechanisms of gene expression
  • They are able to formulate basic mechanisms of RNA-regulated biological systems
  • They can present examples for the relationship between pathophysiological processes and their molecular basis
  • They are able to explain principles of gene therapy
  • They acquire the competence to handle english literature and to present it in a scientific oral presentation
Grading through:
  • written exam
Responsible for this module:
  • Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Norbert Tautz
Teachers:
  • Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Norbert Tautz
  • PD Dr. rer. nat. Christina Zechel
  • Dr. rer. nat. Rosel Kretschmer-Kazemi Far
  • Dr. rer. nat. Olaf Isken
Literature:
  • Alberts et al.: Molecular Biology of Cells - Garland Science
  • Lodish et al.: Molecular Cell Biology - Freeman
  • Buchanan et al.: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants - Wiley Verlag
  • : Versuchsanleitungen
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Language:
  • offered only in German
Letzte Änderung:
2.7.2024