6 EC
Semester 1, period 2
5234HGBE6Y
| Owner | Master Biomedical Sciences |
| Coordinator | dr. F.M.J. Jacobs |
| Part of | Master Biomedical Sciences, year 1 |
This course is aimed at 1st and 2nd year MSc students in the Biomedical/(Neuro)Biological Sciences with an interest in human genomics, genomic evolution of the human species and the genetics of human (neurological) diseases. In this course the student will become familiar with current concepts and challenges in these exciting fields and state of the art experimental techniques used to address these issues. Topics such as epigenetics, non-coding DNA, comparative biology, the genomic impact of transposable elements and genomics of disease susceptibility will be covered. In the first week, the current concepts of human genome biology and primate genomic evolution is laid out in lectures, guided by literature and assignments that the students will read and prepare in the afternoon sessions. In the second week, during lectures, workshops and practicals, we will deal with genomic conservation and divergence (variation) as a source for human speciation and explore which factors contribute to the ongoing evolution of our genome. In the third week, we will discuss and explore which recent evolutionary changes have contributed to our species and to which extent some of these changes may have made humans more susceptible to human diseases. The course is not heavy on bioinformatics and no prior experience on this aspect is required.
By the time the course is completed, the student should be able to:
Activity | Number of hours |
Zelfstudie | 168 |
The programme does not have requirements concerning attendance (OER-B).
Additional requirements for this course:
Students are expected to show up to lectures, workshops, practicals and laptop lectures, and the students are expected to prepare for the lectures through self-study, preparing for the assignments and reading literature that the students are pointed to during the lectures. In addition, the students are expected to actively take part in the in class discussions. This aspect will be part of the evaluation. Each component of the course is interlinked with other components, and therefore attendance to all classes is required.
| Item and weight | Details |
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Final grade | |
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0.15 (15%) Practicals | Must be ≥ 5 |
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0.6 (60%) Tentamen | Must be ≥ 5 |
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0.15 (15%) Assignments | Must be ≥ 5 |
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0.1 (10%) In Class Discussion | Must be ≥ 5 |
The 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' applies to this course. This will be monitored carefully. Upon suspicion of fraud or plagiarism the Examinations Board of the programme will be informed. For the 'Regulations governing fraud and plagiarism for UvA students' see: www.uva.nl/plagiarism
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The schedule for this course is published on DataNose.