This subject contains a 3 day Compulsory Residential School.
The residential school teaches students practical skills and principles relating to microbial biotechnology, and allows students to demonstrate proficiency in these skills and principles.
This subject introduces students to microbial biotechnology, the use of microbes to generate useful products or to degrade wastes (bioremediation). Examples include the microbial production of enzymes (e.g. amylase), antibiotics (e.g. penicillin) or hormones (e.g. human insulin), and the development of microbial strains that are highly efficient at catabolising natural organic compounds or synthetic chemical compounds. Microbial biotechnology overlaps with the recently developing field of designer bacteria, the so-called 'synthetic microbiology', where large sections of a microbial genome are engineered in order to optimise the metabolism for specific purposes. This complements the previous field of (natural) strain development. The advent of genome sequencing, proteomics and metabolomics now allow comprehensive insights into microbial physiology and coupled with the ability to synthesise long stretches of DNA, enables genome engineering on a grand scale, with many new possibilities. Bioinformatics is an important tool in this process. The subject also introduces students to the commercial aspects of biotechnology, such as patent searches, as a way to establish novelty for potential new ideas.
The residential school for this subject will develop practical skills and further theoretical knowledge in microbial biotechnology techniques.
* Offering has a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
HD/FL
One session
School of Biomedical Sciences
Knowledge of bacterial and viral structure, genetics and function and host -microbe interactions as covered in a first year microbiology subject (e.g. MCR101)
This subject contains a 3 day Compulsory Residential School.
The residential school teaches students practical skills and principles relating to microbial biotechnology, and allows students to demonstrate proficiency in these skills and principles.
This subject has a 3 day residential school for which students will have travel and accommodation costs
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The information contained in the 2018 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: August 2018. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.