Code: BIOL-201
Semester: C Semester
Course Type: Obligatory
Course website: Course Website
Course units: 4
ECTS units: 6
Hours per week/Theory: 4
Instructor
Associate Professor: Sarris Panagiotis
Email:
Office phone number: +30 2810 394357
Lab phone number: +30 2810 394356
Description
Objectives of the course (preferably expressed in terms of learning outcomes and competences): Basic understanding of microbial cell structure, function and regulatory mechanisms and the exploitation of this knowledge in biotechnology and medicine.
Course contents: The microbial world. Evolutionary significance and contribution to the biosphere. The bacterial cell as the minimal autonomous unit of life. The bacterial cell as a complex chemical machine: components, structures and energy conversion. Information flow from gene to protein-internal and external regulation. Complete bacterial genomes: a recipe for life. Differentiation and evolutionary change. Interactions of bacteria with other organisms-Symbiosis. Microbial ecology and systematics. Archaea, eukaryotic microbes, viruses. Microbes and man: from disease to agriculture to biotechnology.
