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VIROLOGY

Course

Code: 1394

Degree: Bachelor's in Biotechnology

Faculty of Experimental Sciences

Year: Year 3 of Bachelor's in Biotechnology

Semester: Spring

Type: Required

Language: Spanish

ECTS credits: 6

Lecture: 3

Laboratory: 3

Hours: 150

Directed: 60

Shared: 30

Autonomous: 60

Subject matter: Biomedicine

Module: Health Biotechnology

Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Area: BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.

Description

Molecular virology. Virus-cell and virus-host interactions. Transduction and expression of genes mediated by viruses. Treatment, prevention, and detection.

Faculty

Name	Coordinator	Lecture	Laboratory
PEREZ GARCIA-ESTAÑ, LUIS	■	■	■
ORTEGA-VILLAIZAN ROMO, MARIA DEL MAR		■	■

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Acquisition of basic scientific knowledge.
Capacity to identify, formulate, and resolve basic problems.
Ability to use the tools and instruments necessary for designing experiments and understanding the limits of the experimental approach.
Capacity to apply analytical and numerical methods for the analysis of problems.
Ability to implement efficient tools for troubleshooting within the field of knowledge.
Capacity for continuous improvement, experimentation, and innovation.
Critical and analytical skills in the realm of the sciences.
Creative capacity within the field of the branch of knowledge.
Capacity for evaluating, optimizing, and comparing criteria in decision making.
Capacity to draft, represent, analyze, and interpret scientific documentation and relevant data within the branch of science.
Ability to transmit knowledge acquired in expert and non-expert environments.
Ability to work with multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.
Ability to update knowledge within the branch of sciences.
Social, ethical, and environmental commitment for the development of scientific solutions that are compatible and sustainable with the realities of human and natural environments.
Ability to adapt to and update new knowledge and scientific advances, adopting an ethical, innovative, and creative attitude in the practice of the profession.
Work properly in a biological laboratory with biological material, including the safe handling and elimination of biological and chemical residues while keeping an annotated record of activities.

Specific competencies

Obtain sufficient ability to search for, design, and develop bioactive molecules.
Learn to find and validate new therapeutic targets and acquire skills in methods of molecular diagnosis and therapy.
Capacity to understand the importance of viruses in terms of their relevance as models for replication and gene expression, as well as tools in molecular biology.
Ability to analyze and apply the fundamentals of the structure, function, and manipulation of living things.

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

01Analysing viruses at molecular level
02Knowing the morphological and genetic characteristics of viruses
03Knowing the methods for virus study
04Knowing viruses multiplication cycle
05Conocer las principales estrategias seguidas por los distintos virus para multiplicarse dentro de las células/organismos hospedadores.
06Knowing the most important viral diseases
07Knowing host immune responses to virus
08 En aspectos terapéuticos, se analizar los virus como vectores de genes y sus aplicaciones en el desarrollo de vacunas frente a enfermedades infecciosas y ciertos tipos de cáncer, así como la expresión de proteínas con interés industrial.
09Knowing viruses evolution
010Knowing the new viral agents
011Knowing the most common techniques of virus manipulation
012Learning to use the sources of bibliografy

Teaching units

Association between objectives and units

Objective/Unit	U1	U2	U3	U4	U5
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02
03
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05
06
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08
09
010
011
012

Schedule

Week	Teaching units	Directed hours	Shared hours	Autonomous hours	Total hours
1	U1,U2	4	0	2	6
2	U2	4	2	3	9
3	U2	4	2	4	10
4	U2,U3	2	1	4	7
5	U3	4	2	4	10
6	U3	2	1	4	7
7	U4	2	1	4	7
8	U4	3	1	4	8
9	U4	5	1	4	10
10	U4	2	1	4	7
11	U4	2	2	4	8
12	U5	2	2	4	8
13	U5	20	4	5	29
14	U5	2	5	5	12
15	U5	2	5	5	12

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

Methodology and grading

Grading

It will be evaluated both theoretical and practical activities as well as related activities. The final score will be: Evaluation of theoretical lessons: 80% of the total score. There will be a final exam which will assess the student efforts. The student report of laboratory sessions = 15%.

Assessment test characteristics

The exam will have five questions to be answered in one page extension. One question may consist of five one-paragraph extended short questions

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