4 ECTS credits
100 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4023941ENR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (E) Master - advanced level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Partnership Agreement
- Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
- Department
- Bio-Engineering Sciences
- Educational team
- Geert Angenon
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 32 contact hours Lecture
- Course Content
- Transformation of plants: Introduction of DNA in plant cells: Agrobacterium mediated transformation; direct gene transfer Generating transgenic plants and the use of selectable markers; regeneration; meristemtransformation, in planta transformation, microspore transformation; transient expression systems
- New plant breeding technologies: cis- and intragenesis, genome editing, gene targeting
- RNA silencing and applications for research and molecular breeding: siRNA and microRNA pathways and their biological relevance, co-suppression, VIGS
- Epigenetic regulation mechanisms in plants
- Plant genome analysis and functional genomics
- Additional info
None
- Learning Outcomes
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General competences
Students have a thorough knowledge of molecular genetics and engineering techniques for plants. Students have a thorough understanding of plant molecular genetics, genomics and epigentics. Students have an insight in how genetic engineering tools can be applied in fundamental plant research and crop improvement.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Other exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
Note: Oral exam with written preparation.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
The evaluation consists of an oral examination (40 min) with written preparation (40 min).
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Molecular Biology: Standaard traject