A 10-point C level course (advanced undergraduate)
called Molecular Cell Biology, using Alberts et al. The Molecular Biology of the Cell (Garland Publishing) as reference text, and recruiting a number of specialist lecturers from within Lund
University, from elsewhere in Sweden, and from England. The course took 20 students per year, and included
laboratory classes, Solve a research problem, and research projects.
Molecular Cell Biology 1999...
A ground level course in the Biology-Geology section of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
A 5-point graduate course put on in Spring 1993. The structure and organisation of photosynthetic systems in relation to their function, regulation, assembly and evolution. Photosynthesis is the conversion of light energy into chemical potential energy. Energy transduction takes place in specialised membranes of plants, algae and bacteria. These contain specific protein complexes for different steps of energy transduction: light-harvesting complexes; reaction centres; and electron transport components. Assimilation of CO2 is tightly coupled to energy transduction in most photosynthetic organisms. The lectures highlighted recent developments in understanding the structure and function of these components and their interactions. Lectures also covered the membrane organisation of photosynthetic systems, with special reference to the chloroplast thylakoid. The molecular and structural basis of regulation of photosynthesis was considered, with the biosynthetic and assembly processes that follow expression of genes encoding the major protein complexes. Practical classes were held on chloroplast isolation and electron transport, on spectroscopic detection and quantification of components, on chlorophyll fluorescence spectroscopy and kinetics, and on synthesis of a reaction centre protein. Students attended 15 lectures, did five days of practical work, and prepared and presented recent findings in a colloquium Topics in photosynthetic research.
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