Spring. This course has a limited capacity, enrolment is based on application. Application deadline is Thursday in week 2 for the spring semester.
Please see this page for more information:
You will receive confirmation of whether you received a spot in Studentweb no later than Tuesday the week after the deadline.
The first lecture/orientation meeting is compulsory, which means you will lose your spot if you do not attend class that day. The time of the first lecture/orientation meeting can be found in the schedule on the course website or on the "Mitt UiB" learning platform.
Objectives:
The course aims to give students knowledge about the relationship between biomacromolecules structure and their function. There will be an emphasize on how several biomacromolecules assembles into functional assemblies and how these give rise to cellular function.
Content:
Proteins will get the main focus of this course. Topics that will be covered include how amino acids are assembled into primary, secondary, tertiary and higher order structures and complexes, and how functional protein properties then emerge. How these physical, biochemical and biological properties are utilized in living organisms will then be discussed. Other biomolecules and assemblies of biomolecule will generally only be discussed in connection with their relationship to proteins. The course will build on concepts that has already been introduced earlier, including protein folding, allostery, catalysis and enzymology, ligand and effector binding, post-translational modifications, and signaling. An important aspect of the course will be how all these phenomena regulates, and is regulated by, protein function. The course will offer introductions into relevant methodology, in particular how one determine protein structures experimentally. The course will also discuss protein evolution from a structural perspective.
On completion of the course the student should have the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:
Knowledge
The student can explain in detail about
Skills
The student is able to
General competence
The student has
Mandatory attendance to orientation meeting about written assignments.
Obligatory activities are valid for total six semesters.
The first lecture/orientation meeting is compulsory.
Written assignment (25 %) and written exam (4 hours). Written exam counts 75 % and the written assignment 25 % of final grade. The written exam and the written assignment must be completed and compulsory activity approved, to obtain a grade in the teaching semester.
For a semester without teaching, the student may take the final exam if written assignment is approved. The result of the exam will constitute 75%, and the written assignment 25 % of final grade.
Examination support materials: Non- programmable calculator, according to model listed in faculty regulations