Molecular Biology

2023/2024

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

5

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Informatics

Course type:

Elective course

When:

3 year, 1, 2 module

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Medical biotechnology is a discipline that aims to advance the knowledge of engineering, biology and medicine and improve the health of mankind through interdisciplinary developments that combine engineering approaches with the achievements of biomedical science and clinical practice. Medical biotechnology aims to use knowledge and experience to find and solving problems of biology and medicine.

Learning Objectives

• Formation of systemic knowledge, skills and abilities to obtain substances of medicinal preparations, as well as preventive and diagnostic means by biotechnological methods of synthesis and transformation, as well as a combination of biological and chemical methods.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Knows the basic regulatory documentation on standardization, production, quality control and environmental safety of medicines obtained by biotechnological methods.
• Knows the modern achievements of fundamental biological sciences and biomedical technologies, sources and methods for obtaining biotechnological substances, their physical and chemical properties, innovative ways to create drugs based on the use of genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics data.
• Is able to evaluate the methods used in production and in the laboratory for working with recombinant strains.
• Is able to solve specific problems in the field of technology for obtaining biologically active compounds.

Course Contents

• Modern biotechnology as one of the main directions of scientific and technological progress
• Biotechnological manufacturing systems
• Biomedical Technologies
• Biotechnological production management
• Biosecurity and state control
• Biotechnology and problems of ecology. Characteristics of biotechnological production wastes

Assessment Elements

• Homework №1
  Homework №1 is given to students in one version. Homework completion time is 2 weeks. The form of presentation of students' homework is a Power Point presentation.
• Homework №2
  Homework №2 is given to students in one version. Homework completion time is 2 weeks. The form of presentation of homework by students is a Power Point presentation.
• Homework №3
  Homework №3 is given to students in one version. Homework completion time is 2 weeks. The form of presentation of homework by students is an abstract, 15-25 pages.
• Exam
  The exam is conducted in the form of answers to the questions of the examination ticket and additional questions on the course materials. The examination paper contains two questions. You have 40 minutes to prepare your answer.

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 учебный год 2 модуль
  0.4 * Exam + 0.2 * Homework №1 + 0.2 * Homework №2 + 0.2 * Homework №3

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Основы биотехнологии : учебник и практикум для среднего профессионального образования / под редакцией Н. В. Загоскиной, Л. В. Назаренко. — 3-е изд., испр. и доп. — Москва : Издательство Юрайт, 2021. — 381 с. — (Профессиональное образование). — ISBN 978-5-534-14072-9. — Текст : электронный // Образовательная платформа Юрайт [сайт]. — URL: https://urait.ru/bcode/467749 (дата обращения: 28.08.2023).

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Биотехнология: Практикум / Акимова С.А., - 2-е изд., перераб. и доп. - Волгоград:Волгоградский государственный аграрный университет, 2018. - 144 с.: ISBN - Режим доступа: http://znanium.com/catalog/product/1007958
• Фармацевтическая биотехнология: производство биологически активных веществ. (2013). Ukraine, Europe: НТУ “ХПИ.” Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.7ECCE7F7
• Чечина, О. Н.  Общая биотехнология : учебное пособие для вузов / О. Н. Чечина. — 3-е изд., перераб. и доп. — Москва : Издательство Юрайт, 2021. — 266 с. — (Высшее образование). — ISBN 978-5-534-13660-9. — Текст : электронный // Образовательная платформа Юрайт [сайт]. — URL: https://urait.ru/bcode/474715 (дата обращения: 28.08.2023).