| Semester 2, 2022 External | |
| Units : | 1 |
| Faculty or Section : | Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences |
| School or Department : | School of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
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Requisites
Pre-requisite: BIO3103
Co-requisite: BIO3207
Overview
Applications in Medical Biotechnology provides students with an opportunity to learn advanced practical biomedical sciences skills necessary to support their activity in a working laboratory or research setting. Students will further augment their theoretical knowledge in biomedical sciences with practical skills in molecular biology, cell biology and microbiology. This course will allow students to further enhance their learning by the application of the theoretical concepts and skills in a simulated research laboratory setting.
In some disciplines, students need to demonstrate competency before they can progress further in their studies. Competency involves the application skills and knowledge to a particular standard performance. Students need to pass all competency assessments in a course and reach a total passing of 50% to be awarded a passing grade. Competency Assessment Items are identified in the course specification.
Medical Biotechnology is the application of all of the biomedical science disciplines to produce a diagnostic, prognostic, preventative or treatment for disease. This second capstone course allows students to further develop their technical, quantitative and analysis skills in the biomedical science laboratory. These skills are necessary for students moving into graduate biomedical science careers or further research study.
This course contains a mandatory residential school.
Course learning outcomes
On the completion of this course the student should be able to:
- Use a range of molecular biology, cell biology, immunology and microbiology-based laboratory techniques;
- Perform laboratory experiments safely and successfully with appropriate equipment, including molecular and conventional microbiological apparatus, computer software and hardware for data acquisition and analysis;
- Apply skills required for the preparation and presentation of a detailed research poster.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Advancing skills in immunological methods | 15.00 |
| 2. | Advancing skills in cell biology methods | 15.00 |
| 3. | Advancing skills in molecular biology methods | 20.00 |
| 4. | Literature retrieval and review, data generation, analysis and presentation | 50.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
Student workload expectations
To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature review | No | 20 | 3 |
| Laboratory skills | No | 30 | 1,2,3 |
| Poster Presentation | No | 40 | 3 |
| Presentation (ind, grp, mltmd) | No | 10 | 3 |