COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BYT 5013 MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR LEVENT ÇAVAŞ

Offered to

Ph.D. in Biotechnology
BIOTECHNOLOGY

Course Objective

In this course, biotechnological importances of organisms within marine ecosystems will be explained with examples.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   At the end of this course, the students will be able to give examples to the methods used in marine biotechnology
2   know the commercial marine organisms in marine ecosystems
3   distinguish marine organisms which have high mineral and vitamin contents
4   explain the structures of medicinally important polysaccharides
5   interpret the experimental results related to purification, isolation and characterization of secondary metabolites and antioxidants
6   follow the current researches on marine biotechnology

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Marine Biotechnology
2 Biotechnologically important marine organisms
3 Marine farmings
4 Biominerals in marine organisms
5 Marine proteins
6 Medicinally important polysaccharides in marine organisms
7 Sterols in marine organisms
8 Mid Term Exam
9 Antioxidants in marine organisms
10 Secondary metabolite production in marine organisms
11 In vitro production of marine originated anti-tumoral substances
12 Statistics in biotechnological processes
13 Evaluation of waste materials in marine systems
14 Current researches in marine biotechnology - Assignments - Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Marine Biotechnology I, Yves Le Gal, Roland Ulber, Garabed Antranikian, Birkhäuser, 2005
Marine Biotechnology II, Yves Le Gal, Roland Ulber, Garabed Antranikian, Springer, 2005
Supportive Reference: D. Voet, J.G. Voet, Biochemistry, Wiley, Third Edition, 2004.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Class presentation, questions-answers, discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.30 + MTE * 0.30 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.30 + MTE * 0.30 + RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

The evaluation will be as follows:
30 % MidTerm Exam
30 % Assignment
40 % Final Exam

Assessment Criteria

The questions based on the relationship between learning objects and learning targets will be asked to students

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The students are expected to participate 70% of the total lecture hours.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Levent CAVAS,
Dokuz Eylul University,
Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
Division of Biochemistry, 35160, Kaynaklar Campus, IZMIR-TURKEY
Tel: +90 232 3018701 (office)
+90 506 5047380 (cellular)
Fax:+90 232 4534188
Alternative Email: lcavas@deu.edu.tr
Web: http://people.deu.edu.tr/lcavas/web

Office Hours

Wednesday 17:00-18:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture 13 3 39
Preparation for Final Exam 1 24 24
Preparing Individual Assignments 1 20 20
Other (finding marine biotechnology based papers) 5 10 50
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 10 10
Mid Term 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 199

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Cumhuriyet Bulvarı No: 144 35210 Alsancak / İZMİR
Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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