PřF:C4221 Biochemická lab. technika - Course Information

C4221 Biochemická laboratorní technika

Extent and Intensity

0/0/4. 4 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: graded credit.

Teacher(s)

doc. RNDr. Oldřich Janiczek, CSc. (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Jan Lochman, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

prof. RNDr. Zdeněk Glatz, CSc.
Department of Biochemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science
Supplier department: Department of Biochemistry – Chemistry Section – Faculty of Science

Prerequisites

C7777 Handling chemicals && C4222 Basic calculations
Theoretical knowledge and practical skills of the high school chemistry level

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Applied Biochemistry (programme PřF, B-AB)
• Applied Biochemistry (programme PřF, B-AB, specialization Bioanalytical chemistry)
• Applied Biochemistry (programme PřF, B-AB, specialization Biotechnology)
• Applied Biochemistry (programme PřF, B-AB, specialization Clinical biochemistry)
• Biochemistry (programme PřF, B-BCH)
• Chemoinformatics and Bioinformatics (programme PřF, B-BCH)

Course objectives

The aim of the course is to obtain basic laboratory skills (safety and fire rules, basic rules for safe chemical laboratory practice and basic biochemistry operations)

Learning outcomes

Basic laboratory operations as well as determination of physicochemical constants of compounds are exercised in this course. Students will learn in this course safety and fire rules and basic rules for safe chemical laboratory practice and perform basic laboratory operations and manipulation with chemical laboratory equipment and simple instruments

Syllabus

• 1. laboratory safety rules 2. glassblower work 3. liquid volume measurements, pipetting 4. weighing, statistics 5. thin layer chromatography 6. spectrophotometry 7. pH measurement 8. separation methods 9. vacuum distillation 10. steam distillation 11. titration 12. microscopy

Literature

• ČECH, Svatopluk. Aleš Mareček, Antonín Růžička: Laboratorní technika pro nechemické obory. Masarykova univerzita ve spolupráci s Chemickou fakultou VUT, Brno, s.44, ISBN 80-210-1653-1. (Aleš Mareček, Antonín Růžička: Laboratory technique for students of non-chemical specializations.). Univerzitní noviny. Brno, 1998, vol. 5, No 10, p. 58. ISSN 1211-6866. info
• KEIL, Bořivoj. Laboratorní technika biochemie. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství Československé akademie věd, 1959, 872 s. info

Teaching methods

laboratory courses

Assessment methods

The laboratory course runs on a weekly basis. Each student is tested at the beginning of the class for the theoretical knowledge of the particular experiment by a short written test or by questions.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

Study Materials

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

• C2720 Organic Chemistry - laboratory course
  (C4221||C1100||C1600)&&!C2200  
• C3120 Analytical Chemistry - laboratory course
  (C1100||C4221) && (C3100||C1660)  
• C4220 Biochemistry - laboratory course
  C3181 && (C4221||C1100)  
• C4230 Biochemistry - laboratory course
  C3181 && (C4221||C1100)  
• C5160 Physical chemistry - laboratory course
  (C1100||C4221) && C4660 && NOW(C7777)  

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