Data
Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025
Course director
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Szeberényi József
emeritus professor,
Medical Skills Education and Innovation Centre -
Number of hours/semester
lectures: 12 hours
practices: 0 hours
seminars: 0 hours
total of: 12 hours
Subject data
- Code of subject: OBF-UMO-T
- 1 kredit
- Biotechnology MSc
- Optional modul
- autumn
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Course headcount limitations
min. 5 – max. 100
Topic
Molecular Medicine is a field of science that studies the mechanisms of pathogenesis and new possibilities for the diagnosis and therapy of human diseases at the level of molecules (nucleic acids and proteins). This course is designed to discuss the discoveries in molecular cell biology most important for clinical medicine: it will present their scientific background, their impact on medicine, the new perspectives opened by them. The course is closely connected to the compulsory subject Molecular Cell Biology and to the elective course Molecular Medicine.
Lectures
- 1. Introduction: Cellular pathology and molecular medicine - Szeberényi József
- 2. The story of DNA - Szeberényi József
- 3. The story of recombinant DNA technology: Restriction endonucleases - Szeberényi József
- 4. The story of recombinant DNA technology: Cloning of DNA fragments - Szeberényi József
- 5. Gene targeting by homologous recombination - Szeberényi József
- 6. Gene targeting by site-specific endonucleases - Szeberényi József
- 7. Gene drive - Szeberényi József
- 8. Genetically modified organisms - Szeberényi József
- 9. GMO-food: the controversy - Szeberényi József
- 10. Oligonucleotide therapy - Szeberényi József
- 11. Gene therapy - Szeberényi József
- 12. Test - Szeberényi József
Practices
Seminars
Reading material
Obligatory literature
None.
Literature developed by the Department
The course consists of lectures of the board-and-chalk style. Taking notes is recommended.
Notes
None.
Recommended literature
Cooper: The Cell. A Molecular Approach
Conditions for acceptance of the semester
None.
Mid-term exams
Final multiple-choice question-based exam, oral improvement retake.
Making up for missed classes
No possibilities.
Exam topics/questions
None