Laboratory Project

Duration

44h Pr, 16h Labo., 8h Proj.

Number of credits

Lecturer

Thomas Desaive, Liesbet Geris

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

Learning unit contents

This laboratory project touches upon the different aspects of experimental research in the field of biomedical engineering (simulations, measurements, in vitro and in vivo work, ethical committee).  These differents aspects will be studied by means of smaller sub-projects:

• Genetics : practical work in animal genetics
• Electrophysiology : Registration of an action potential in worms.
• Animal Ethics : Overview and discussion
• Experimental data acquisition and analysis: Thomas Desaive
• 5th project to be determined

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

At the end of the course, the students will have acquired an overview of methods and experimental techniques used in biology. They will be capable of appreciating experimental work in biology and they will have the ability to process biological data.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

• GBIO0002-1: Genetics and molecular biology
• GBIO0020-1: Physiologie
• GBIO0005-1: Introduction to neurosciences

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course will consist of ex-cathedra presentations, different biological laboratory projects and data processing involving Matlab.

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

face-to-face

Recommended or required readings

none

Assessment methods and criteria

Detailed individual reports (in the style of scientific publications) on each of the different topics (75%).
Oral exam discussing the lab reports in june and september (25%).
Detailed modalities:

• Compulsory attendance to each of the laboratories
• Detailed report (style scientific publication) of each of the laboratories (20% per lab).
• Maximum of 7 pages, arial 12, line spacing single, 2-3 figures. Additional specifications will be given for each of the laboratories.
• Send in the reports maximally 15 days after the laboratory has ended in electronic version (pdf) to Liesbet Geris.
• Oral exam on the rapports and concepts of the laboratories in June and September
• A missing report = 2nd exam period
• Plagiarism = 2nd exam period
• Possibility to redo the reports (not the laboratories themselves) for the 2nd exam period

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

The course will take place in the 2nd quadrimester.  For each laboratory a time slot will be determined based on the availability of the laboratory, the supervisors (of the faculty of Medicine) and the students. 

Contacts

Liesbet Geris(E.Bullinger@ulg.ac.be B52/3, +2.549 tel: +32 4 366 9587 )Liesbet.Geris (at) ulg.ac.be(Liesbet.geris@ulg.ac.be )
 
 Thomas Desaive tel: +32 4 366 3733 tdesaive (à@ulg.ac.be(tdesaive@ulg.ac.be)