ADB732 - INSECT REARING TECHNIQUES
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INSECT REARING TECHNIQUES | ADB732 | Any Semester/Year | 3 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer Observation Drill and Practice | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Assoc.Prof. Osman SERT | |||||
| Course objective | Calculating postmortem intervals (PMI) and where the murder took place, without considering biological and ecological detailed information might have cause mistakes. First step to understand these information is to build laboratory colonies. In this wise, one can find out fundamental biologic and ecologic information by observing live specimens and populations for a long time, by rearing specimens collected from the crime scene the evidence could be much more significant, by rearing specimens that have been collected periodically the seasonal dynamics could be clearly understood. In this way laboratory colonization techniques help interpret the forensic data meaningfully. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Laboratory rearing of forensically important insects, interpretation of the information produced by this method. | |||||
| References | 1. Greenberg, B. and Povolny, D. 1971. Flies and Disease, Vol. I. Ecology, Classification and Biotic Associations, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 2. Byrd, J. H., and J. L. Castner. 2001. Forensic Entomology: The Utility of Arthropods in Legal Investigations. CRC Press, Boca Raton. 440 p. 3. Gennard, E.D. 2007. Forensic Entomology: An Introduction. Wiley Press, West Sussex. 224 p. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Importance of colonization in forensic entomology ? Biological and ecological characters of the species (T) Practices of biological and ecological characters of the species (P) |
| Week 2 | Importance of colonization in forensic entomology ? Periodic colonization (T) Periodic colonization (P) |
| Week 3 | Importance of colonization in forensic entomology ? Colonization of the specimens collected from corpse (T) Colonization of the specimens collected from corpse (P) |
| Week 4 | What is an insectarium? Research on insectarium colonies (T) Colonization of the specimens collected from corpse (P) |
| Week 5 | Methods of fly and beetle rearing in the laboratory (T) Colonization of the specimens collected from corpse (P) |
| Week 6 | I. Midterm |
| Week 7 | Methods of fly and beetle rearing in the laboratory (T) Practices on the methods of fly and beetle rearing in the laboratory and its properties (P) |
| Week 8 | The case in different habitats - Adaptation, dispersal, the number of generations and generation time (T) Practices on the methods of fly and beetle rearing in the laboratory and its properties (P) |
| Week 9 | The case in different habitats - Adaptation, dispersal, the number of generations and generation time (T) Practices on the methods of fly and beetle rearing in the laboratory and its properties (P) |
| Week 10 | Physical environmental conditions ? Optimum and unsuitable conditions of temperature, humidity and photoperiod. Diapause. (T) Practices on physical factors affecting colonization (P) |
| Week 11 | Physical environmental conditions ? Optimum and unsuitable conditions of temperature, humidity and photoperiod. Diapause. (T) Practices on physical factors affecting colonization (P) |
| Week 12 | Food used for colonization- types, amounts, contamination, intra-specific competition (T) Practices on biological factors affecting colonization (P) |
| Week 13 | Sustainability of the culture, inbred cohorts, methods for preservation of genetic diversity (T) Practices on biological issues that needs to be considered during colonization (P) |
| Week 14 | Mating, changes in sex-ratio (T) Practices on biological issues that needs to be considered during colonization (P) |
| Week 15 | Preperation for final exam |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 1 | 25 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 1 | 25 |
| 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) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| 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 | 9 | 126 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Total Workload | 45 | 70 | 265 |
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. Contributes the solution of the social, scientific, cultural and ethical problems in his/her field and supports the improvement of these values | X | ||||
| 11. 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