| Department of Bacic Animal and Veterinary Sciences
20 % Department of Agriculture and Ecology 20 % Department of Basic Science and Environment 25 % Department of Disease Biology 10 % Department of Plant Biology and Biotechnology 25 % | |||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 15 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination Written Exam in Lecturehall All aids allowed Description of Examination: Beskrivelse af eksamen: 4 h. The examination topics will cover aspects of the six themes presented under course content. Weight: 100% 7-point scale, internal examiner Dates of Exam: 18 June 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | An approved written report, made individually, is prerequisite for access to the written examination. | ||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures, seminars, journal clubs, patent reading classes, presentations, individual report writing | ||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 4 Week Structure: B Block 4 Week Structure: C | ||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | 240025 Microbiology 240067 Molecular Genetics 240039 Plant Genomics 240053 Mammalian Genomics 240007 Bioinformatics 1 230002; 240020; 240019 | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||||
| The course is mainly theoretical and is based on selected scientific papers and patent applications. The course is taught through a series of lectures with parallel case studies and journal clubs. Patenting and use of patent literature is also taught in computer exercises.The following topics are covered in the first six weeks of the course: 1) Innovation and intellectual property rights, 2) Bioremediation, 3) Biotechnology in food and feed stuff, 4) Genomics and Bioinformatics, 5) Biomedicine and 6) Bioreactors. Innovation and intellectual property rights are taught thoughout the course whereas the other topics are concentrated in 1-2 weeks modules. The two final weeks of the course will include preparation of an individual report on a biotechnolgical topic selected by the student. | |||||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||
| Colloquia, seminars, exercises, discusison and presentations in relation to the individual topics: 40 hours of lectures, 40 hours journal clubs, 40 hours patent reading classes, 80 hours project work, 20 hours presentation, 40 hours computer exercises and 180 hours for preparation. | |||||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||||
| The course forms a final element of the MSc education and it is the final preparation for the MSc projects After completion of the course the student is expected to have the following knowledge, skills and competences: Knowledge - Communicate in depth knowledge on selected topics within the area of biotechnology - Identify current technical problems within the area of biotechnology - Describe the relationship between patenting and scientific discovery - Describe the patenting process and how it relates to the international patent authorities and organizations. - Understand patents as strategic tools in business developement - Understand how intellectual property rights relates to and handles genetic sequences and other biological material Skills - Read and interpret state of the art scientific literature within the area of biotechnology - Evaluate which strategies and laboratory procedures to use to solve technical problems within the biotechnological area - Use and understand advanced methods in molecular biology in the context of research and development - Determine the freedom to operate for a given new biotechnological product emphasizing intellectual property rights. - Understand entrepreneurship in general. Competences: - Identify scientific problems within the area of biotechnology and design strategies for investigating the problems - Exploit knowledge of advanced technologies and products based on genetic sequences in animal, plant and microbial biotechnologies. - Exploit knowledge of technologies include bioremediation, development and tailoring of production organisms, gene discovery, genome analysis, marker assisted selection, rational drug design and the use of animal and cell-based models. - Exploit knowledge of products comprise food ingredients, biomedicine, small molecule pharmaceuticals and transgenic crop plants and animals. | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||||
| Selected scientific papers, reviews and patent material. The litterature will change from year to year dependent on the chosen topics. | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||
| Claus Bøttcher Jørgensen, chj@life.ku.dk, Department of Basic Animal and Veternary Sciences/Genetics & Bioinformatics, Phone: 35333064 | |||||||||||||||||
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