COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR HÜLYA AYAR KAYALI

Offered to

Ph.D. in Biotechnology
BIOTECHNOLOGY

Course Objective

Biotechnology is critical to many different industries,including the health sciences and agriculture and the food and beverage industry uses applied microbial biotechnology in many products.Microorganisms have been used in the biotechnology due to they grow up in short time and fastly. Therefore microorganisms are manipulated for production of antibiotic, interferon,insulin,yogurt and cheese.The course aims to provide an introduction to microbial biotechnology,metabolism in microorganism,microbial growth,and secondary metabolite production from microorganisms.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): Glazer, A.N., Nikaido, H. Microbial Biotechnology: Fundamentals of Applied Microbiology, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Supplementary Book(s): Alagawadi, A. R. Microbial Biotechnology, Narosa Publishing House, 2006.
References:
Materials:

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentation
2. Interactive narrative
3. Question-answer technique
4. Homework

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Meaningful learning of the basic concepts given in presentations, association of concepts with each other, establishing the cause-result relationships and making comments by using the information available for problems and evaluating idea generation are carried out with mid-term and final exams, active participation to the lecture, homework.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylül University, Science Faculty, Chemistry Department, Biochemistry Division, 35160, Buca, Izmir, Turkey
e-mail:hulya.kayali@deu.edu.tr
Tel: +90 232 3018690

Office Hours

Wednesday 13.30-15.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes