Data
Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2025-2026
Course director
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Schneider György József
assistant professor,
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology -
Number of hours/semester
lectures: 24 hours
practices: 0 hours
seminars: 0 hours
total of: 24 hours
Subject data
- Code of subject: OBF-086-T
- 2 kredit
- Biotechnology MSc
- Optional modul
- spring
OBA-112-E parallel
Course headcount limitations
min. 5 – max. 25
Topic
Aim of the course is to introduce to the students the diverse and manifold significance of microorganism present on earth, with their highly sophisticated adaptation machinery, survival strategies under extreme environmental conditions.
Only a very few number of known bacteria can cause diseases in humans, most of them are harmless or even beneficial. We can use them to produce food, with their products (antibiotics, enzymes) we can treat various (not only infectious) diseases, their presence in or on the human body can prevent illnesses, they can be used for diagnostic and industrial purposes and also to control or remediate environmental pollution. Microorganisms are present almost everywhere on earth, without them also humans could not exist. The new concept and rapidly increasing significance of the microbiome and its relationship to human health problems will also be covered in the lectures. And finally, since some bacteria are capable of causing illnesses in humans, and a lot of them can be spread by food, food infections (intoxications) will also be discussed.
Lectures
- 1. The biosphere, relevance of microorganisms for life on earth - Palkovics Tamás
- 2. The biosphere, relevance of microorganisms for life on earth - Palkovics Tamás
- 3. Bacteriophages - Schneider György József
- 4. Bacteriophages - Schneider György József
- 5. Practical use of bacteriophages and phage enzymes - Schneider György József
- 6. Practical use of bacteriophages and phage enzymes - Schneider György József
- 7. Antibacterial natural products - Schneider György József
- 8. Antibacterial natural products - Schneider György József
- 9. Bioremediation - Schneider György József
- 10. Bioremediation - Schneider György József
- 11. Electric activities of bacteria - Schneider György József
- 12. Electric activities of bacteria - Schneider György József
- 13. Biosensoric applications - Schneider György József
- 14. Biosensoric applications - Schneider György József
- 15. Metagenomics - Palkovics Tamás
- 16. Metagenomics - Palkovics Tamás
- 17. The human microbiome - Palkovics Tamás
- 18. The human microbiome - Palkovics Tamás
- 19. The human microbiome and chronic diseases - Palkovics Tamás
- 20. The human microbiome and chronic diseases - Palkovics Tamás
- 21. Microbes in the food industry - Palkovics Tamás
- 22. Microbes in the food industry - Palkovics Tamás
- 23. Food infections - Palkovics Tamás
- 24. Food infections caused by Gram negative bacteria - Palkovics Tamás
Practices
Seminars
Reading material
Obligatory literature
Literature developed by the Department
Notes
Recommended literature
Ian L. Pepper, Charles P., Gerba Terry J. Gentry (eds.): Environmental Microbiology, 3rd edition, ISBN-13: 978-0123946263, ISBN-10: 0123946263
Conditions for acceptance of the semester
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Mid-term exams
The grade will be given based on attendance and activity.
Making up for missed classes
There is no possibility to catch up on missed lessons.
Exam topics/questions
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