Unit APPLIED MOLECULAR BIOTECHNOLOGY
- Course
- Molecular and industrial biotechnology
- Study-unit Code
- A002646
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Paolo Gorello
- Teachers
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- Paolo Gorello
- Hours
- 57 ore - Paolo Gorello
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2026/27
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline biologiche
- Sector
- BIO/12
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- - Generation of laboratory data and its critical interpretation.- Reliability of test results: precision, accuracy, sensitivity, specificity.- Quality management, predictive value and decision-making levels.- Units of measurement in Clinical Biochemistry, sources of preanalytical variability, reference values, Biological variability.- Principles and techniques for collecting, processing and storage of biological samples.- Methods used in Clinical Biochemistry:Centrifugation techniques, UV-Visible spectrophotometry and Spectrofluorimetry- Point-of-Care testing, Chemical dry state.- Clinical Enzymology.- Biochemical parameters. Markers of function and injury of tissue or organ with particular reference to markers of myocardial damage and markers of liver function. - Description of the most used techniques in Clinical Biochemistry: Nucleic acids electrophoresis, Protein electrophoresis, Western-blotting , ELISA assay, RIA assay, Fluorescence Microscopy.- Basic elements of Molecular Biology (genome, gene, mutations, polymorphisms) and utilization of databases (eg. NCBI, Enseble Genome Browser, Globin Gene Server).- Integration between Clinical Biochemistry methods and Molecular Biology methods : Study of Hemoglobinopathies- Description of the most used techniques in Molecular Diagnostics:end-point PCR , Real-Time PCR, dHPLC, DNA sequencing (Sanger method) , NGS (Next Generation Sequencing).
- Reference texts
- Slides and notes provided by teacher
- Educational objectives
- The main aim of this teaching is to provide students with the theoretical principles useful to identify and analyze the sources of variability of laboratory data and to provide students with the theoretical principles needed to understand the applications and issues that underlie the methods most used in Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The program includes the presentation of some investigation methods of laboratory, their application in the diagnosis of diseases. The main knowledge acquired will be:- Basic knowledge about the collection, processing and storage of biological samples.- Knowledge related to units of measurement in Clinical Biochemistry, sources of preanalytical variability, reference values, biological variability.- Basic concepts of reliability analytical precision, accuracy, sensitivity, specificity.- Basic elements about quality management , predictive value and decision-making levels.- Basic knowledge of Methods used in Clinical Biochemistry:Centrifugation techniques, UV-Visible spectrophotometry and spectrofluorimetry.- Basic knowledge of Clinical Enzymology: enzyme assay, markers of tissue and organ. - Basic knowledge of Methods used in Clinical Biochemistry: Nucleic acids and protein electrophoresis, Western-blotting, ELISA, RIA and TestFluorescence microscopy. - Basic knowledge of Methods used in Clinical Molecular Biology: End-point PCR, Real-Time PCR, dHPLC, DNA sequencing using Sanger method,NGS (Next Generation Sequencing). - Basic elements of Molecular Biology (genome, gene, mutations, polymorphisms) and utilization of databases (eg. NCBI, Enseble Genome Browser, Globin Gene Server).
- Prerequisites
- The course requires basic knowledge of Biochemistry, Cell Biology and Genetics.
- Teaching methods
- Lectures on all subjects of the couse.
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam. The grade will average with the MOLECULAR TRANSLATIONAL BIOTECHNOLOGIES module.
- Extended program
- - Generation of laboratory data and its critical interpretation.- Reliability of test results: precision, accuracy, sensitivity, specificity.- Quality management, predictive value and decision-making levels.- Units of measurement in Clinical Biochemistry, sources of preanalytical variability, reference values, Biological variability.- Principles and techniques for collecting, processing and storage of biological samples.- Methods used in Clinical Biochemistry:Centrifugation techniques, UV-Visible spectrophotometry and Spectrofluorimetry- Point-of-Care testing, Chemical dry state.- Clinical Enzymology.- Biochemical parameters. Markers of function and injury of tissue or organ with particular reference to markers of myocardial damage and markers of liver function. - Description of the most used techniques in Clinical Biochemistry: Nucleic acids electrophoresis, Protein electrophoresis, Western-blotting , ELISA assay, RIA assay, Fluorescence Microscopy.- Basic elements of Molecular Biology (genome, gene, mutations, polymorphisms) and utilization of databases (eg. NCBI, Enseble Genome Browser, Globin Gene Server).- Integration between Clinical Biochemistry methods and Molecular Biology methods : Study of Hemoglobinopathies- Description of the most used techniques in Molecular Diagnostics:end-point PCR , Real-Time PCR, dHPLC, DNA sequencing (Sanger method) , NGS (Next Generation Sequencing).
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