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Course 2024-2025

Intensive Integrated Practical Courses [SBIOM104]

  • 2 credits
  • 0h+80h
  • 2nd quarter
Language of instruction: English

Learning outcomes

Learn to the student to perform a set of practical courses leading to a complete experiment of cellular biology, from the generation of a hypothesis to the cellular biology manipulation, through molecular biology.

Objectives

Practice in the solving of biological questions.

Being able to understand and interpret scientific data.

Technical skills at the bench.

Being able to present data generated in the laboratory and to discuss them

Content

The integrated practical courses are composed of 5 steps :

- asking a biological question and hypothesis generation

- development of an experimental strategy to test working hypotheses

- disciplinary working groups, design of experimental procedures and sharing of the expertises

- molecular and cellular biology experiments to test the proposed hypotheses

- presentation and discussion of the context and the experimental data

 


Prerequisites

The teaching units from one of the following lists:

  1. Biologie cellulaire [SBIOB323]
  2. Compléments de génétique [SBIOB326]
  3. Microbiologie et virologie [SVETB315]
  4. Techniques de laboratoire et visite des unités de recherche [SBIOB310]

Co-requisites

Techniques avancées de biologie cellulaire et moléculaire [SBIOM101]

Teaching methods

The intensive integrated practical courses are made to stimulate reflection by proposing a problem-based learning. The problem is solved by the combination of several expertises. Each students group is composed of various and shared expertises, stimulating team-based learning. Each students group performs experiments of molecular and cellular biology.

Evaluations

At the end the practical courses, a presentation of the performed experiements is made, by defining the context of the study, the obtained results and the interpretation that can be done. Each student presents a part and orally answers to a short list of questions. The attitude of the student during the practical courses  also contribute to the assesment.

If the student fails, a second session is organized, where the student is invited to present a part of the experiments, and is questionned about all the experiments done and the interpretation of the results.

Language of instruction

English

Location for course

NAMUR

Organizer

Faculté des sciences
Rue de Bruxelles, 61
5000 NAMUR

Degree of Reference

Master's Degree