COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THE BASIC OF CANCEROMICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TRO 5002 THE BASIC OF CANCEROMICS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Translational Oncology

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR YASEMIN BASKIN

Offered to

Translational Oncology

Course Objective

Omics technology for cancer detection and their application in modern cancer clinics, Omics technologies, their use in the field of cancer, system biology, clinical use of canceromics will be discussed

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knowledgeable about omics.
2   Acquire knowledge of use of omic biomarkers in cancer
3   Be able to know genomics, proteomics, pharmacogenomics methods.
4   Be able to know epigenomic, lipidomics methods.
5   Be able to expresse to the concept of system biology
6   Be able to critically evaluate the clinical use of canceromics

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Omics technology 1
2 Introduction to Omics technology 2
3 Description of canceromics
4 Genomics in cancer
5 Proteomics in cancer
6 Metabolamics in cancer
7 Epigenomic in cancer
8 Cancer lipidomics and Glycobiology
9 Pharmacogenomics in cancer
10 Pharmacogenomics in cancer
11 Clinical use of canceromics 1
12 Clinical use of canceromics 2
13 Clinical use of canceromics 3
14 Clinical use of canceromics 4
15 Debates

Recomended or Required Reading

Molecular Biology of the Cell, 6th Edition. Ed. Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter. Garland Publishers
Essential Cell Biology - 4th Edition Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Karen Hopkin, Alexander D Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter Garland Publishers
The Biology of Cancer, 2nd Edition, Robert A. Weinberg, Garland Publishers
Molecular Biology of the Gene, 7th edition, James Watson, Alexander Gann, Tania Baker, Michael Levine, Stephan Bell, Richard Losick, Stephan Harrison Pearson Cold Spring harbor Laboratory Press.
Principles of Molecular Diagnostics and Personalized Cancer Medicine, Dongfeng Tan, henry Lynch, Wolters Kluwer, Lippincott Williams&Wilkins.
The Handbook of Biomarkers, Kewal Jain, Humana Press
Translational and Experimental Clinical Research, Daniel Schuster, William Powers, Lippincott Williams&Wilkins.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods


Lectures, the topics with classroom activities (presentations and homework assignments) to consolidate and discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRF PERFORMANCE
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 +PRF * 0.20 + FIN* 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 +PRF * 0.20 +RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. The learner will clearly define outlined LO1, LO2, LO3, which will evaluate with exam.
2. The learner will recognize, LO4, LO5, LO6 will evaluate with homework, prepared presentations by themselves and exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

yasemin.baskin@deu.edu.tr ; 0 232 412 58 01

Office Hours

Thursday 11:00-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 15 3 45
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 3 45
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 5 4 20
Preparing presentations 2 10 20
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.1555555
LO.2555555
LO.35555555
LO.455555555
LO.555555555
LO.655555555