Study Programmes 2015-2016
SBIM0489-2  
Virology Part 1
Duration :
7h Th
Number of credits :
Bachelor in biomedicine3
Lecturer :
Nathalie Jacobs, Nathalie Jacobs
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course contents :
This course is an overview on virus diversity in term of morphology and genetic materials. The different type of infection and viral infection transmissions are also addressed as well as methods of virus detection and production. The illustrative examples are principally virus involved in human pathologies or virus studied in ULg research laboratories.
Learning outcomes of the course :
To enable the student to understand and explain:


  • Virus molecular and morphologic characteristics,
  • Virus infection and transmission between hosts
  • Methods of virus detection, identification and production
Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
General biology course
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
The course is divided in 4 face-to-face lectures.
Recommended or required readings :
Slide presentation is available on "eCampus" portal after the lecture.
Assessment methods and criteria :
Writing exam 
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
Questions related to the course must be posted on the forum of "eCampus" portal.
Contacts :
Nathalie Jacobs, Cellular and Molecular Immunologyl-Virology, CHU B34 + 5, University of Liege, Sart-Tilman, 4000 Liège, Belgium. Phone: +32(0)43662420, fax: +32(0)43664198, n.jacobs@ulg.ac.be(n.jacobs@ulg.ac.be)