Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in pharmacy | 4 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course on Molecular biology will allow to the students to discover the basic mechanisms that gover gene expression and regulation
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Allow an understanding of DNA replication, gene transcription, translation and targeting of cellular proteins. This course will also allow to the students to understand important differences between pro- and eukaryotes. On some occasion, we will discover how pharmacological agents can influence gene expression.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Pré-requis: Biologie 2
Co-requis: General Biochemistry
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
No praticals
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
face-to-Face
Recommended or required readings
Text books are Genes X by B. Lewin (Ed. Jones & Bartlett, USA) and Molecular Biology of the gene by James Watson et al. (Ed. Pearson Education). A CDRom with all the figures shown during the course will be distributed at the first lesson.
Assessment methods and criteria
Written examination
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Student identification card will be mandatory to obtain the access to the written examination. In case of non presentation of the card, acces to the examination will be denied.
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
The course material is available at MyUliege as:
- PDF files corresponding to the totality of the slides used in each Chapter (Chapters I to VII).
- Podcasts corresponding to the ex-cathedra classes that were taught until the 10/03/2020, before the confinement and covering Chapters I to V (except for the classes that were not recorded due to technical issues with the Unicast system).
- Videos corresponding to Chapters VI and VII.
Assessment subjects
The evalution will focus on the entire material covered by Chapters I to VII.
Assessment methods
The examination will be held at the end of the academic year, around May/June. Due the extraordinary circumstances, the evaluation will be done "on-line" as theoretical questions or exercises related to the course material. Question format will be MCQ or SAQ.
Contacts
Teacher :
Franck Dequiedt,
Département des Sciences de la vie, Faculté des Sciences
GIGA, B34, niv +5
1, Avenue de l'hopitâl
Tél : + 32 4 366 9028
fdequiedt@uliege.be
All questions regarding the course shall be asked via the dedicated "on-line" forums. I will not be able to answer these questions on a daily basis but I will do my best to do it once a week. Students, using their ULiege email address, should ask any other question not related to the course material via email. I expect these emails to conform to the basic rules of politeness. I will not respond to emails that do not follow these guidelines.
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Items online
Chapter I : Nucleic acids
Structures and properties of nucleic acid molecules
Chapter II - Organisation of the genetic materials
Organistion of the genetic materials
Chapter III - Replication
Principles and molecular mechanisms of replication
Capter IV - Mutations, recombinaison, repair
DNA mutations, recombinaison and repair
Chapter V - The various types of RNA molecules
details of the various coding and non-coding RNA molecules
Chapter VI - Transcription
transcription in procaryotes and eukaryotes
Chapter VII
Chapter VII - Translation and the genetic code
Introduction
Introduction