Information as provided to the International Office:
July 2013
BIOCHEMISTRY & IMMUNOLOGY
If a student will be present for the entire year (to include summer exams), they can take the
JS course content of the Biochemistry degree programme (60 ECTS). Information on the
Biochemistry degree programme may be found at
http://www.tcd.ie/Biochemistry/courses/js_biochem_material.php.
If the students are here for Semester one, Semester two or the entire year, they can pick
from the following options:
Semester 1
Module:
BI3110
Protein Structure
Duration:
Semester One
Contact hours:
30 hours over 6 weeks, approximately.
Assessed:
In course assessment
Weighting:
5 ECTS
Description:
This module consists of lectures covering proteins and enzymes.
In particular, protein structure and function, enzyme regulation
and enzyme activity.
Module:
BI3901
Biochemistry practical Labs
Duration:
Semester One
Contact hours:
48 hours over 12 weeks
Assessed:
In-course assessed
Weighting:
5 ECTS
Description:
Practicals including buffers, spectrometry, chromatography,
protein determination, enzyme purification, enzyme kinetics,
binding assay, electrophoresis, western blot.
Semester 2
In the second semester, either BI3130 or BI3140 can be chosen.
Module:
BI3130
Nucleic Acids
Duration:
Semester Two
Contact hours:
30 hours over 6 weeks, approximately.
Assessed:
In-course assessed
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July 2013
Weighting:
5 ECTS
Description:
This is a basic biochemistry module with lectures covering
eukaryotic gene structure and expression, mechanisms of DNA
repair and molecular biology techniques.
Module:
BI3140
Biochemistry in Health and Disease
Duration:
Semester Two
Contact hours:
30 hours over 6 weeks, approximately.
Assessed:
In-course assessed
Weighting:
5 ECTS
Description:
This module covers metabolism and the functions of the immune
cells, drug discovery approaches, including target identification and
validation, computational drug design and drug metabolism.
Module:
BI3903
Biochemistry Practical Labs
Duration:
Semester Two
Contact hours:
48 hours over 12 weeks
Assessed:
In-course assessed
Weighting:
5 ECTS
Description:
Techniques in Cell and Structural Biology, Trypanosomes in
Tissue Culture and Molecular Biology.