Module LS3150-KP06

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

6

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Bachelor Nutritional Medicine 2024, compulsory, life sciences
• Bachelor Molecular Life Science 2024, compulsory, life sciences

Classes and lectures:

• Seminar Molecular Biology (seminar, 2 SWS)
• Lecture Molecular Biology (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 60 hours in-classroom work
• 120 hours private studies

Contents of teaching:

• Lectures: Typically, 5 coherent blocks will be lectured.
• Basics: genetic engineering and gene regulation
• Growth and aging: molecular processes during ontogenetic differentiation, maintenance and loss of function during aging of cells and organisms
• Nucleic-acids: molecular basis, polymorphism, RNA-regulation. Diagnostic and possible therapeutic aspects
• Molecular biology of plants: molecular basis as well as economic and ecological aspects of transgenic plants and herbicide resistance
• Gene-therapeutic approaches and recombinant vaccines
• Exercises: Reading of scientific articles and oral presentation
• Conceptual design of publications

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Students are able to present basic steps of genetic engineering
• They can explain basic mechanisms of gene expression
• They are able to formulate basic mechanisms of RNA-regulated biological systems
• They can present examples for the relationship between pathophysiological processes and their molecular basis
• They are able to explain principles of gene therapy
• They acquire the competence to handle english literature and to present it in a scientific oral presentation

Grading through:

• written exam

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Norbert Tautz

Teacher:

• Institute of Medical and Marine Biotechnology
• Department of Neurosurgery
• Institute of Virology and Cell Biology
• Dr. rer. nat. Olaf Isken
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Norbert Tautz
• PD Dr. rer. nat. Christina Zechel

Literature:

• Alberts et al. : Molecular Biology of Cells Garland Science
• Lodish et al. : Molecular Cell Biology Freeman
• Buchanan et al. : Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants Wiley Verlag
• : Versuchsanleitungen
• : Course script

Language:

• offered only in German

Notes:

Last Updated:

28.11.2025