COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INTRODUCTION TO OMICS TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTH SCIENCES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
BST 5014 INTRODUCTION TO OMICS TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTH SCIENCES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 9

Offered By

Biomedicine and Health Technologies

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ZEYNEP AHSEN KOÇER

Offered to

Biomedicine and Health Technologies

Course Objective

To provide an introduction for the omics technologies and their application in health sciences.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To become familiar with the recent omics technologies
2   To provide an introduction for the tools used in omics technologies
3   To become familiar with the methodology in each omics approach
4   To discuss the potential uses of such technologies in health sciences
5   To discuss the pros and cons of each methodology
6   To understand how we can integrate them to find therapeutic tools

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Overview of Omics technologies
2 Genomics
3 Metagenomics
4 Transcriptomics
5 miRNAomics
6 Proteomics
7 Metabolomics
8 Lipidomics
9 MIDTERM
10 Phenomics
11 Pharmacogenomics
12 Immunomics
13 Vaccinomics
14 Epigenomics
15 Cellomics
16 Integrated Omics

Recomended or Required Reading

Suggested Textbook(s): OMICS: Biomedical Perspectives and Applications, by Debmalya Barh, Kenneth Blum, Margaret A. Madigan.
Publisher: CRC Press (2017)
ISBN: 9781138074743
Language: English

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Oral presentation, literature search and discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + FIN *0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Theoretical knowledge will be evaluated by exam

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

zeynep.kocer@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Final 1 10 10
Midterm 1 5 5
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 227

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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