ANIM0004-4 : Microbial biochemistry and physiology

Study Programmes 2015-2016

ANIM0004-4

Microbial biochemistry and physiology

Duration :

10h Th, 12h Pr

Number of credits :

Master in agricultural bioengineering (120 ECTS)		2
Master in bioengineering : chemistry and bio-industries (120 ECTS)		2

Lecturer :

Micheline Vandenbol

Language(s) of instruction :

French language

Organisation and examination :

Teaching in the second semester

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Course contents :

- Mating in yeast as model organism (sexual reproduction), physiological and molecular description, signal transmission, synthesis and maturation of pheromones ;
- Control of cell division cycle in yeast, cyclins, control of genome integrity and stability ;
- Isolation of ts mutants (temperature-sensitive mutants) and cdc mutants (cell division cycle) in microorganisms;
- Identification of genes that control cell, conservation of regulation process in Eukaryotes;
- Diversity of antimicrobial peptides from bacteria and description of their mechanisms of action;
- Description of some microbial metabolism (nitrogen and phosphate);
- Practical works: methods to measure different parameters of microbial metabolism.

Learning outcomes of the course :

- Overview of different biochemical and physiological mechanisms from different microbial cellular processes (intracellular transduction, cell division cycle control, nitrogen and phosphate metabolism) ;
- Overview of specialized methods developed to study the microbial metabolism.
After completing the course, the student is expected
- to understand the different aspects of the microbial metabolism and physiology
- to practice the appropriate techniques to study a particular metabolism.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills :

BIOL2013 - General microbiology
BIOL2015 - Molecular biology

Planned learning activities and teaching methods :

PowerPoint available on MyULg.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :

Lectures : 10 h Practical Works : 12 h (obligatory)