BYL729 - VECTOR ECOLOGY and CONTROL METHODS
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VECTOR ECOLOGY and CONTROL METHODS | BYL729 | 1st Semester | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| Prequisites | - | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer Demonstration Experiment | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. Dr. Nurdan Özer | |||||
| Course objective | To gain the knowledge on soil microorganisms, and to teach the importance of microorganisms as geochemical agents | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Non symbiotic nitrogen fixation, symbiotic nitrogen fixation Legume-Rhizobium assosiation, Mechauism of nitrogen fixation Isolation and iden¬tification of Rhizobium, Serologic methods, Rhizophages and biochemical methods, limiting factors of biological nitrogen fixation, biological nitrogen fixation and related procedures, Acetylene reduction, N 15 methods, Hup+strains, Plasmid in Rhizobium, Pseudomonad and other bacteria in the Rhizophere. | |||||
| References | Öner, M; Mikrobiyal Ekoloji, Ege Üniversitesi yayınları, 1987 Akalan, İ; Toprak Bilgisi, Ankara Üniversitesi Yayınları, 1988 Çengel, M; Toprak Mikrobiyolojisi, Ege Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2004 Ogilvie, L.A., Hirsch,P.R;Microbial ecological theory: current perspective, 2012 | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Definition and history of soil microorganisms (T) Introduction (P) |
| Week 2 | The soil structure (T) The soil structure (P) |
| Week 3 | Physical and chemical relations in soil (T) Related laboratuary (P) |
| Week 4 | Soil Bacteria (T) Isolation bacteria from soil (P) |
| Week 5 | Pseudomonodales (T) Pseudomonas (P) |
| Week 6 | Midterm exam I |
| Week 7 | Rhizobiocea (T) Rhizobium (P) |
| Week 8 | Actinomycetes (T) Soil Actinomycetes (P) |
| Week 9 | Chemoautotrophic bacteria (T) Chemoautotrophic bacteria (P) |
| Week 10 | Fungi Mycorrhiza (T) |
| Week 11 | Algae (T) Algae (P) |
| Week 12 | Protozoa (T) Soil protozoa (P) |
| Week 13 | Midterm exam II |
| Week 14 | Major chemical cycles in soil (T) Geochemical agents (P) |
| Week 15 | Studying for final exam |
| 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 | 10 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 2 | 30 |
| Final exam | 1 | 10 |
| Total | 60 | |
| 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) | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Laboratory | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| 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 | 10 | 140 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 2 | 15 | 30 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Total Workload | 47 | 59 | 256 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Based on the graduate level proficiency improves and deepens the actual and advanced knowledge with original thought and/or research in the level of specialty. | X | ||||
| 2. Comprehends interdisciplinary interaction related with his/her field; performs analysis and synthesis of the new and complex ideas and reaches the original results by using expert knowledge in assessment. | X | ||||
| 3. Evaluates and uses knowledge with systematic approach in his/her field; makes critical analysis, synthesis, and assessment of knowledge and transfer it. | X | ||||
| 4. Develops a new idea, method, design and/or application for innovation in his/her field or performs a known idea, method, design and/or application to a different field. Researches an original subject; comprehends, designs, adapts and implements them | X | ||||
| 5. Possesses the high level skills in using research methods in his/her field | X | ||||
| 6. Publishes at least one article related with his/her field in national or international academic journals. | X | ||||
| 7. Works in situation, which requires to solving original and interdisciplinary problems | X | ||||
| 8. Develops new ideas and methods related to his/her field using upper level intellectual processes such as innovative and critical thinking, solving problems and enacting. | X | ||||
| 9. Makes a scientific research at national or international academic groups | X | ||||
| 10. Enables to apply the results of reseach to field. | X | ||||
| 11. Contributes the solution of the social, scientific, cultural and ethical problems in his/her field and supports the improvement of these values | X | ||||
| 12. Presents the scientific and technologic progresses in his/her field, contributes the processes of being an information society where he/she lives and continuation of this. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest