COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BIOBANKS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BYT 6017 BIOBANKS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HILAL KOÇDOR

Offered to

Ph.D. in Biotechnology
Ph.D. in Biotechnology
BIOTECHNOLOGY

Course Objective

Biological samples, diagnosis in diseases, tracking, genetic studies, the development of the treatment tools, pharmacogenetics, drug design are the indispensable sources of gene therapy studies. Nowadays, a large part of biobanks are found in universities or research centers. Within the context of this course, it will be provided that awareness of students will be increased about the topics of creation of high-quality medical record systems, the interconnection of large databases and ethical issues encountered in the process of the generation of biobanks the necessary arrangements.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To create awareness about high quality medical record systems.
2   To create awareness about comprehensive data-base connections.
3   To create awareness about ethical issues encountered in the process of biobanking.
4   To create awareness about ethical issues encountered biobanking relevant rearrangements.
5   To have knowledge about biobank asembling and its management.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The Definition of Biobank
2 Clinical-pathological Sample Archives-Applications
3 Tissue, Organ Banks-Applications
4 Cell Banks-Applications
5 DNA Banks-Applications
6 Disease-specific Biobanks-Applications
7 Commercial Biobanks-Applications
8 MIDTERM EXAM
9 Biobanks Providing Social Genetic Data-Applications
10 Biobanks for Forensic Purposes-Applications
11 Ethnical Regulations about Biobanks
12 Quality Management, Access to Samples
13 Installation and Operation of Biobank
14 Homework and Presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): OECD. Biological Resource Centres. Underpinning the future of life sciences and biotecnology, 2001.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Presentation
2. Question-answer technique
3. Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PRS PRESENTATION
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE* 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRS * 0.10 + FIN * 0.40
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRS * 0.10 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Meaningful learning of the basic concepts given in presentations, association of concepts with each other, establishing the cause-result relationships and making comments by using the information available for problems and evaluating idea generation are carried out with mid-term and final exams, homework and presentations.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Institute of Oncology, Oncology Department
hilal.kocdor@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 13.30 - 15.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 35 35
Preparation for final exam 1 40 40
Preparing Homework and Presentations 1 35 35
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 192

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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