CODE 58086 ACADEMIC YEAR 2023/2024 CREDITS 9 cfu anno 1 ODONTOIATRIA E PROTESI DENTARIA 8746 (LM-46) - GENOVA LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA PREREQUISITES Propedeuticità in uscita Questo insegnamento è propedeutico per gli insegnamenti: School of Dental Medicine 8746 (coorte 2023/2024) BIOCHEMISTRY 62658 MODULES Questo insegnamento è composto da: APPLIED BIOLOGY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW The course consists of lectures. At the end of the course students will be accompanied in the laboratory where the teacher works to see how a research laboratory is organized. In addition, students will be able to attend on-going experiments related to the course program. AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES The course promotes the knowledge of the organization and functioning of eukaryotic cells and the understanding of inheritance transmission mechanisms. Information about the most common molecular biology techniques are provided AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES At the end of the course the studentknows: - living matter composition and organization in its biological elementary units and basic cellular processes of living organisms. - organization of genetic information, its transmission and expression in eukaryotic cells and interaction between ambient and genome. - cellular proliferation and organism reproduction and principal mechanisms that underly to the continuity and variance of organisms. - Information about the most common molecular biology techniques are provided. TEACHING METHODS lectures and visit to a research laboratory SYLLABUS/CONTENT For the content please refer to that of the two modules (58087 and 58088) RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY L'essenziale di Biologia Molecolare della Cellula, Alberts et al., Zanichelli Biologia Molecolare della cellula. Harvey Lodish et al., Zanichelli Genetica, un approcciomolecolare. Peter J. Russel, Pearson Genetica - principi di analisiformale. Anthony J. F. Griffiths et al TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD SARA TAVELLA Ricevimento: by appointment by email: sara.tavella@unige.it PAOLO MALATESTA Ricevimento: Tuesday at 12:00 PM at CBA A3, Room 31. Students wishing to attend must book by email (paolo.malatesta@unige.it) at least one day in advance. Exam Board PAOLO MALATESTA (President) SARA TAVELLA (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course) LESSONS Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION written tests (multiple choise test) and/or oral ASSESSMENT METHODS mid-term assessments