NSC751 - LABORATORY TECHNIQUES IN NEUROBIOLOGY
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LABORATORY TECHNIQUES IN NEUROBIOLOGY | NSC751 | Any Semester/Year | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| Prequisites | Students who apply from programs not teaching in Engilish (100%) are required to document that their proficiency in English is equivalent to that sated in the prerequisites to apply for the program. | |||||
| Course language | English | |||||
| Course type | Must | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer Observation Team/Group Work Preparing and/or Presenting Reports Drill and Practice Case Study Problem Solving Brain Storming | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. Dr. Turgay DALKARA, , Prof. Dr. Müge Yemişçi Özkan, . Doç. Dr. Emine Eren KOÇOK, Doç. Dr. Hülya KARATAŞ KURŞUN | |||||
| Course objective | To introduce some of the laboratory techniques used in neurobiology | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Topics include measurement of cerebral blood flow, extracellular and intracellular bioelectric potentials from brain, muscle and peripheral nerves, surgical procedures, cerebral ischemia models, immunohistochemical techniques, muscle staining and teasing. | |||||
| References | 1. Short Protocols in Cell Biology Ed: Bonifacino, Dasso, Harford, Lippincott-Schwartz, Yamada Wiley Canada 2. Short Protocols in Neuroscience Ed: Crawly, Gerfen, McKay, Wiley Canada | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | General InformatIon |
| Week 2 | UmmunohIstochemIstry |
| Week 3 | TechnIques to collect data |
| Week 4 | Western blottIng and gel zymography |
| Week 5 | Instrumental analysIs |
| Week 6 | Assignments |
| Week 7 | MIcroscopy |
| Week 8 | Gene amplIfIcatIon technIques |
| Week 9 | Intracellular recordIng technIques, synaptIc |
| Week 10 | Extracellular recordIng technIques |
| Week 11 | Midterm exam |
| Week 12 | BehavIoral models and elk |
| Week 13 | Phase project dIscussIon |
| Week 14 | Phase project dIscussIon |
| Week 15 | General Test Preparation |
| Week 16 | General Examination |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 14 | 10 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 14 | 10 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 1 | 20 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 1 | 10 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 14 | 4 | 56 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 5 | 70 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 1 | 25 | 25 |
| Homework assignment | 14 | 10 | 140 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 50 | 50 |
| Total Workload | 45 | 114 | 361 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Students learn the basic neuroscience knowledge and concepts, develop skills to follow the international scientific literature and be able to apply this information to their studies. | X | ||||
| 2. Students become capable of searching all the information resources and be aware of recent scientific developments concerning their studies. They acquire a critical look at the work done in the field of neuroscience such that they can examine national or international journal papers at the level of a referee and be able to write a scientific report by clearly expressing their ideas. These skills are assessed in the literature search and seminar courses. | X | ||||
| 3. The student is expected to be able find original solutions by using new scientific methods to a scientific problem in the thesis period. Thesis progress reports and thesis dissertation exam are used to assess whether the Ph.D. student have acquired these skills or not. | X | ||||
| 4. On completing the program, students are prepared to assume scientific leadership in the field of neuroscience. Students are expected to establish research teams, produce joint projects with other researchers in the field of neuroscience or other scientific areas, be able to conduct a project from the beginning to end and transfer their knowledge and skills to juniors. | X | ||||
| 5. They become knowledgeable about good laboratory practices and are capable of developing and implementing new methods in the field of neuroscience. | X | ||||
| 6. Students graduate as acquired all the skills to be an independent researcher and a qualified educator at the end of the program. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest