MABIOD4200 Methods in Biochemistry and Cell Biology Course description

Students must have passed all their exams for the first year before they can be given access to laboratories and academic supervision to work on their master's thesis. The course is not offered as an individual course.

Basic technical laboratory skills in methods in biochemistry and cell biology at bachelor’s degree level.

The following required coursework must be approved before a student can take the exam:

1. Meet all deadlines for submission of all project parts (during the semester)
2. The project parts should be approved  

Students who fail to meet the coursework requirements can be given up to one re-submission opportunity before the exam.

Type of assessment:  

1) Project report in groups of 2-3 students (approx. 50-70 pages, excl. appendices), weighted 50%

2) Oral exam, individual or in group, weighted 50%

All assessment parts must be awarded a pass grade (E or better) in order for the student to pass the course. Students must be awarded an E or better on their project report to be allowed to take the oral exam.

Assessment parts: 1) may be appealed and 2) cannot be appealed.

Etter fullført emne har studenten følgende læringsutbytte definert i kunnskap, ferdigheter og generell kompetanse:

Kunnskap

Studenten

• har avansert kunnskap om utvalgte biokjemiske og cellebiologiske metoder, deres muligheter og begrensninger
• kan redegjøre for teori og prinsipper for avanserte proteinanalyser både in vivo og in vitro
• har oppdatert kunnskap om proteomikk
• har kunnskap om avanserte mikroskopiteknikker og deres anvendelsesområder
• har avansert kunnskap om ulike metoder for tillaging av transgene dyr, og kan redegjøre for lover og forskrifter som regulerer fremstillingen av disse

Ferdigheter

Studenten

• kan selvstendig vurdere biokjemiske og cellebiologiske metoders egnethet, deres styrker og svakheter
• kan selvstendig utføre og kritisk tolke resultater fra utvalgte metoder innenfor biokjemi og cellebiologi
• kan utføre bioinformatiske søk i internettbaserte sekvensdatabaser
• kan utforme en forskningsrapport på vitenskapelig vis

Generell kompetanse

Studenten

• kan kritisk vurdere aktuelle metoder i biomedisinsk forskning og diagnostikk
• kan designe en forskningsstudie innenfor biokjemi og cellebiologi
• kan nyttiggjøre seg av, drøfte og formidle avansert forskningslitteratur
• kan kritisk vurdere etiske dilemmaer ved bruk av dyr i forskning

Ingen

An individual written master’s thesis and an individual oral exam including a presentation of the thesis, up to 1.5 hours. The master’s thesis can be written as a monograph of up to 100 pages or an article manuscript with a supplementary introductory chapter of up to 45 pages.

The written thesis must be awarded a grade of A-E (preliminary grade) in order for a student to take the oral exam. The final grade is set after the oral exam. The grade can be adjusted up or down by one grade based on the oral exam.

Theses are written in Norwegian or English. The oral exam can be taken in Norwegian or English, regardless of which language the thesis was written in.

Resit exam: If the master’s thesis is awarded the grade F (fail), the student will be given one (1) opportunity to submit a reworked version.

Students can appeal against the grade set for the written part of the exam. If the grade is changed after an appeal against the grade, and the oral exam has already been held, the oral exam must be retaken.

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Grade scale A-F

All the exams are assessed by an external and an internal examiner.