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Miracles of Living Materials ("Realistic" Biochemistry)

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OBF-CSU-T
  • 1 kredit
  • Biotechnology MSc
  • Optional modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 45

Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: ETK GYTK TTK

Topic

The aim of the course is to enlighten and uncover the biochemical background of those topics which are selected as recent "mainstream" natural science issues. The topic spectrum is wide enough to cover problems from synthetic biology through dopes in sport until toxins and poisons of plants, fungi and animals. There is a special session about the physical, chemical and medical Nobel prizes from the last decade to get insight to the hottest fields of natural sciences.

Lectures

  • 1. Human genome project, gene therapy, epigenetics - Veres Balázs
  • 2. DNA sequencing, PCR, CSI - Veres Balázs
  • 3. Playing God: synthetic biology - Veres Balázs
  • 4. Personalized genome-based medicine: access to a healthier world. - Veres Balázs
  • 5. Superman: doping in sport and brain doping - Veres Balázs
  • 6. Eugenics: the scientific horror of the XX. century. - Veres Balázs
  • 7. Artificial life. The future of life forms - including humans - on Earth. - Veres Balázs
  • 8. Cancer, AIDS: beyond therapy. Cryopreservation. - Veres Balázs
  • 9. Connection: CNS - computer interfaces. - Veres Balázs
  • 10.

    Bioterrorism

    - Veres Balázs
  • 11.

    Biological warfare

    - Veres Balázs
  • 12. Nature strikes back: toxins of plants, fungi and animals - Veres Balázs

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

Lecture slides (in pdf format) will be available for the students. WEB links and additional on line materials will be included as well.

Notes

Lecture slides (in pdf format) will be available for the students. WEB links and additional on line materials will be included as well.

Recommended literature

Lecture slides (in pdf format) will be available for the students. WEB links and additional on line materials will be included as well.

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Infographics about one of the topics of the course.

Mid-term exams

Hand-made info-graph about a selected topic.

Making up for missed classes

There is no possibility to make up.

Exam topics/questions

Exam topics are the topics of the lectures during the course.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

Rólunk