Izmir Institute of Technology CMS: Molecular Biology and Genetics

MBG406 Proteomics and Genomics

Teacher: Bünyamin Akgül

MBG 101 Biology I

Content : This course will cover the complex biological molecules and cellular structures and make freshmen students familiar with the underlying concepts of biological processes such as metabolism, inheritance, and cell communication at both molecular and cellular levels.

Objectives :1.To ensure that students understand the theory and basic principles of biological research and scientific techniques; 2.To enable students to learn the characteristics of important elements in the world of biology and of molecules consisting of a combination of these elements; 3.To ensure that students comprehend the characteristics of the organisms and the structural elements; 4.To ensure that students understand and learn basic knowledge related with the features of organisms, structures and functions; 5.To ensure that students understand and learn the biological events that occur in organisms at the molecular level like DNA replication, protein synthesis, etc.

Teacher: Bünyamin Akgül

MBG111 Biology Lab I

The aim of this course is to Orient freshmen in biology labs. To this extent, the students are expected to (1) learn to safely work in labs; (2) recognize basic cellular structures; and (3) make observations and report these observations following scientific rules.

Biology MBG 101 ChEng

Teacher: Çiğdem Tosun

Applied Bioinformatics MBG305

The course will introduce some of the many tools that are available for analysis of proteins, genes and genomes. The theoretical bases of these tools will be discussed and various programs and algorithms will be demonstrated and applied by the students. Students will learn how to perform database searches; pairwise and multiple sequence alignments and construct phylogenetic trees. Next generation sequencing (NGS) and analysis of NGS will be discussed as well as gene expression methods such as RNA sequencing. Bioinformatic approaches to protein analyses will also be covered.

Teacher: Anne Frary

Phys Human Physiology

Teacher: Gülistan Meşe Özçivici

MBG 403 Developmental Biology

Teacher: Özden Yalçın Özuysal

MBG 204 Microbiology

This course presents the fundamental principles of the biology of microorganisms with emphasis on prokaryotes. It covers structure, metabolism, growth and its control, genomics, and ecology of microorganisms. Upon completion of this course you should have a better understanding and the knowledge of the diversity of prokaryotes with regard to their structure, metabolism and physiology, and also of growth reqirements and evolution of prokaryotes and their role in the ecosystem.

Teacher: Ferda Soyer Dönmez

MBG 214 Microbiology Laboratory

Mol Bio Lab Molecular Biology Laboratory

bioinformatics Computational Biology

Teacher: Anne Frary

MBG305-AppBioinfo Applied Bioinformatics

The course will cover some of the databases available in biology such as NCBI and SwissProt. It will also demystify computational tools like BLAST, FASTA and other search algorithms currently employed in biological research. Finally, many tools which can be employed in projects will be explained in varying detail. Among these are multiple sequence alignment, building of pylogenetic trees, predicting secondary information about genes and proteins. Prediction of sub cellular localization of proteins, gene structure prediction, and discovery of putative functional domains of proteins are among the information that may be predicted.

The course will only scratch on the surface of a large number of tools that are very helpful in daily biological research. For each of these tools the confidence that can be put into the result is discussed in detail.