3 ECTS credits
75 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4021499ENR for all students in the 1st semester
at
a (E) Master - advanced level.
- Semester
- 1st semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Partnership Agreement
- Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science and Bio-engineering Sciences
- Department
- Bio-Engineering Sciences
- Educational team
- Geert Angenon
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
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26 contact hours Lecture
- Course Content
- Plant genome analysis: sequencing and annotation of genomes, genome evolution, gene duplication, repetitive DNA, transposable elements, dynamics of chloroplast, mitochondrial and nuclear genomes
- Functional genomics and transcriptomics
- Transformation of plants:
Introduction of DNA in plant cells: Agrobacterium mediated transformation; direct gene transfer
Generating transgenic plants and the use of selectable markers; regeneration; meristem transformation, in planta transformation, microspore transformation;
transient expression systems - New plant breeding technologies: cis- and intragenesis, genome editing, gene targeting
- RNA silencing and and applications for research and molecular breeding: siRNA and microRNA pathways and their biological relevance, co-suppression, VIGS
- Epigenetic regulation mechanisms in plants
- Additional info
None
- Learning Outcomes
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General competences
Students have a thorough understanding of plant genomics, genetics and epigentics.
Students have a thorough knowledge of molecular plant genetic techniques and have an insight in how these can be applied in fundamental and applied research.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Other exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
The evaluation consists of an oral examination (30 min) with written preparation (30 min).
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Molecular Biology: Standaard traject