2300361 INTRODUCTION TO MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY
Introduction to and history of molecular biotechnology; reviews on regulation of gene expression in prokaryotes and eukaryotes; principles and techniques in recombinant DNA technology; production of recombinant protein in prokaryotes and eukaryotes; mutagenesis, protein engineering and directed evolution; various applications of molecular biotechnology in medicine and agriculture.
2312355 VIROLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
Nature of viruses; morphology; genetics and classification of viruses; isolation and cultivation; mechanism of multiplication; pathogenesis; prevention of viral infection; basics of immune systems; antigen and antibody; cellular and humoral immune responses; immunotechnology; vaccines.
2312356 VIROLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY LABORATORY
Cell culture technique; viral quantitation; viral diagnostic; experimental animal methodology; serum preparation; immunoblotting technique; ELISA technique.
2312357 MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS
Structure, organization and function of genetic material; gene, chromosome, and genome of procaryotic and eukaryotic cells; regulation of gene expression; mutations; genetic exchange in bacteria: transformation, conjugation, and transduction, transposable elements, and plasmids; genetic engineering; genomics and metagenomics; functions and regulation of microbial cell structures; physiology of microbial energy, nutrition and growth; microbial metabolism of organic and inorganic substrates; secondary metabolism in fungi; microbial and metabolic interactions between microbes; transportation and translocation of macromolecules; microbes in extreme environments.
2312358 MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS LABORATORY
DNA isolation and quantification; mutation and selection of mutants; gene transfer; DNA amplification and recombinant DNA technology; electron microscopyof microbial cells protoplast formation and protoplast regeneration; microbial growth profile; amino acid metabolism; enzyme induction and repression; environmental stress shock in bacteria.
2312371 MICROBIAL ECOLOGY
Microbial evolution; microbial biodiversity; microbial communities in various habitats; interactions among microbial populations; interactions between microbes, plants, and animals; molecular microbial ecology; bioinformatics for microbial ecology.
2312372 MICROBIAL INDUSTRY VISIT
Visit to industries of industrial microbiology, food microbiology, medical microbiology, environmental microbiology, agricultural microbiology, and bioresources in microbiology.