PřF:C1200 Biochemistry - Course Information

C1200 Introduction to the biochemistry

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

doc. RNDr. Petr Zbořil, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. RNDr. Petr Zbořil, CSc.
Department of Biochemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science
Supplier department: Department of Biochemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science

Timetable

Wed 9:00–10:50 B11/205

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

After that course students should understand of biochemical knowledge and methods in various kinds of human activity - in analytical and productive role, medicine and pharmacy, biotechnological processes, solving the ecological problems.

Syllabus

• Introduction. Topics of biochemical research. History and present state. Methodology. Theoretical research and practical application. Biochemistry in medicine and pharmacology. Biochemical diagnostics. Essays of biochemical markers of health state. Important parameters and their analysis. Biochemical research of diseases, hereditary predispositions, molecular diseases. Biochemistry in therapy. The fate of drugs in organism, problems, solving, use. Substitution therapy (enzymes), genetic aspects. Therapeutics production and testing. Biochemical backgrounds of modern therapeutic approaches (suicide substrates, inhibitors of translocases). Biochemistry in technology. Preparative and analytical role. Food production. Biochemistry in agriculture. Food industry. Fermentative biotechnology. Ore treatment. Biochemistry and ecological problems of industrial society. Earth as biochemical reactor. Big cycles of elements. Influence of human activity on environment, global problems. Sources exhaustion, production of wastes. Waste classes. Biochemistry and waste analysis and treatment. Liquid wastes. Waste water characteristics, parameters (C, N, COD, BOD5, TKN). Modes of waste water treatment, technology, setup. Solid wastes, biochemical ways of treatment. Bioremediation.

Literature

• Káš, Jan - Rauch, Pavel. Biochemie životního prostředí. VŠChT Praha 2000.
• HERBER, Vladimír, Zdeněk POSPÍŠIL, Ivan HOLOUBEK, Tomáš TYC, Jiřina RELICHOVÁ, Petr ZBOŘIL, Petr KUGLÍK, Kateřina KEPRTOVÁ, Rostislav MELICHAR and Jiří REZ. Věda a příroda (Science and nature). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2007, 64 pp. Univerzita třetího věku. ISBN 978-80-210-4492-0. info
• ZBOŘIL, Petr, Marie MATĚJKOVÁ and Marie VEJVODOVA. The Immobilization of Denitrification Bacteria for the Waste Water Treatment. In KÁŠ, Jan and Pavel JENČ. Environmental Biotechnology in Europe. Prague: ICT Press, 2001, p. 7. ISBN 80-7080-434-3. info

Teaching methods

Theoretical lectures.

Assessment methods

Lecture. Colloquium.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

• CORE022 Biochemie v běžném životě
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