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BMB818: Extremophile microbes: Microbiology and biotechnology (5 ECTS)

STADS: 01009701

Level
Master's level course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the spring semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: r.p.cox@bmb.sdu.dk

Timetable
Group Type Day Time Classroom Weeks Comment
Common I Tuesday 12-14 U35 06
Common I Tuesday 08-10 U35 10,12,14,17,19
Common I Wednesday 10-12 U142 07-08
S1 TE Tuesday 08-10 U66 08,11,13,15,18,20
S1 TE Wednesday 10-12 U49b 18,20
S1 TE Thursday 12-14 U17 11
S1 TE Friday 10-12 U7 08,13,15
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Comment:
MAX 16 studerende

Kurset undervises på engelsk.

Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
Student is expected to have followed an introductory course in microbiology, for example BMB507 Fundamental microbiology, BMB528 Microbiology for Pharmacy, BB509 Microbiology or a similar course in microbiology from another university.

The course is also open to students at bachelor level.

Course introduction
The course covers the microbiology of Bacteria and Archaea that are adapted to extreme environments and their industrial applications.

Qualifications
Students will obtain experience in reading scientific articles in English and giving oral presentations to fellow students in the same language. They will also gain experience in isolation and characterisation of a pure culture of a microbe from an extreme environment.

Expected learning outcome
After completing the course, students will be able to

  1. Describe the different types of extreme environments and explain how Bacteria and Archaea are able to survive and grow under these conditions.
  2. Give examples of the biotechnological application of extremophiles
  3. Perform the procedures involved in isolating a pure culture of a microbe from an extreme environment.
  4. Use 16S rRNA sequences to identify Bacteria and Archaea in accordance with current ideas about microbial phylogeny.
Subject overview
  1. Types of extreme environment and the extremophile concept
  2. Extremes of temperature – thermophiles and psychrophiles
  3. Extremes of pH – acidophiles and alkaliphiles
  4. Environments with high salt concentrations – halophiles
  5. Environments with limiting resources – oligotrophs and phototrophs adapted to low light intensities.
Literature
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Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
  1. Oral presentation. Pass/fail, internal evaluation by teacher (2 ECTS)
  2. Lab. work. Pass/fail, internal evaluation by teacher (1 ECTS)
  3. Assignment. Internal examiner, graded after Danish 7 mark scale (2 ECTS)
Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Intro phase: 16 hours
Skills training phase: 34 hours, hereof:
 - Tutorials: 24 hours
 - Laboratory exercises: 10 hours

Educational activities Study phase: 75 hours

Language
This course is taught in English.

Remarks
max 16 students

Course enrollment
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