NNT762 - BIOLOGICAL FUNDAMENTALS of NANOTECHNOLOGY
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIOLOGICAL FUNDAMENTALS of NANOTECHNOLOGY | NNT762 | Any Semester/Year | 3 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. Dr. Necdet SaÄŸlam | |||||
| Course objective | The purpose of the nanobiology course is to enable physicists, chemists and engineers, who are relatively far from biology science, to recognize the basic biological systems and related terminology required in nanotechnology science and to give information about both the nanotechnology applications applied to biological systems and the biologically inspired nanotechnology. In addition, in this course, information about nano scale current applications and new developments in biological systems will be given. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Fundamentals of biological systems, nucleic acids, protein lipids and sugars, molecular biology techniques, bioanalytical methods, protein analysis techniques, introduction to bioinformatics and OMICS technologies, fundamentals of biophysics and biochemistry, nanoscale imaging and image analysis techniques, biomimics, interaction of nanostructures with biological systems | |||||
| References | - Introduction to Bionanotechnology, Lee, Young-Chul, Moon, Ju-Young, Springer, 2020 (ISBN 978-981-15-1293-3) - Nanoscience, P. Boisseau, P. Houdy, M. Lahmani, Springer, 2010 ISBN: 978-3-540-88632-7 | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Nanobiology : An Introduction |
| Week 2 | Nanobiotechnology and Bionanotechnology |
| Week 3 | Biomimicry, Bio-inspired designs |
| Week 4 | Nano objects and molecules in biological systems, nucleic acids, protein, lipids and sugars |
| Week 5 | Fundamentals of Biophysics and Biochemistry |
| Week 6 | Cell, virus, bacteria and interactions |
| Week 7 | Nanoparticle systems - Cell membrane interactions |
| Week 8 | Midterm |
| Week 9 | Fundamentals of bioinformatics and OMICS technologies |
| Week 10 | Nanomedicine, Drug delivery, gene therapy |
| Week 11 | Micro- and nanofluidics applications in life sciences |
| Week 12 | Biosensors, microarray platforms and biochips |
| Week 13 | Imaging and analysis, optical and force microscopy, spectroscopic and spectrometric methods in nanomedicine |
| Week 14 | Microscopic techniques for analysis of biological images at nanometer scale |
| Week 15 | Final exam preparation |
| Week 16 | Final Exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 1 | 10 |
| Presentation | 1 | 15 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 1 | 25 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 3 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 6 | 84 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 25 | 25 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 2 | 15 | 30 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 29 | 29 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 60 | 60 |
| Total Workload | 33 | 138 | 270 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Being able to use mathematics, science, and engineering information to develop new methods in the fields of nanotechnology and nanomedicine. | X | ||||
| 2. Being able to search information in Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine fields and to reach, to evaluate and to comment on this information | X | ||||
| 3. Being able to make supplements to the literature and to develop a skill for presenting their studies fluently in written and oral forms in national and international media. | X | ||||
| 4. To have a Professional ethics and social responsibility. | X | ||||
| 5. By adopting the importance of lifetime learning in principle, actively following the developments in novel technological applications with databases and other sources. | X | ||||
| 6. Being able to choose and to use techniques, devices and software with the suitable information and communication Technologies in order to solve engineering problems. | X | ||||
| 7. To communicate in oral and written forms in a foreign language at least in the C1 grade level of European Language Portfolio in the fields of nanotechnology and nanomedicine. | X | ||||
| 8. Being able to design experiments, to do experimentation, to analyze and evaluate experimental results and to prepare a report to present. | X | ||||
| 9. Being able to do within discipline and interdisciplinary teamwork | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest