XXII. BIOCHEMICKÝ ZJAZD - Jesseniova lekárska fakulta

Lectures
TEACHING BIOCHEMISTRY AT THE faCULTY OF SCIENCE IN KOŠICE
Mária Kožurková, Marián Antalík and Dušan Podhradský
Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Science,
P. J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia
We have been teaching biochemistry for 20 year. Our department provides an education
of Biochemistry for students of the bachelor and master degree, according to the credit
system of study at Faculty of Science.
The subject Biochemistry was broken up into part I and II. Biochemistry I taught for 2 hour
per week (for students of bachelor study) and will give a survey of new technologies and
materials. The lectures are suitable for both scientific and pedagogically oriented students.
Biochemistry II (for students of master study) will focus of structures and functions of
saccharides and lipids, metabolism, regulation of metabolic pathways, basic metabolic
processes and principle of bioenergetic. The subject is taught for 2 hours per week and
is finished by final written test. Biochemistry III - Modern trends in biochemistry (for
students of master study) provide biochemical view into the modern trends: evolution
of energetic metabolism, protein splicing, protein sequencing, protein - DNA interaction,
problems of DNA replication, cell division, viruses, and apoptosis. Students are eligible
to graduate with a title of Master of Science upon passing of a state examination in the
areas of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Biophysical Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry,
Clinical Biochemistry and Biotechnology.
The department is also an educational workplace for post-graduate students in the field
of the structure and functions of biomolecules.
Acknowledgement. This work was supported by the Grant Agency VEGA 1/0053/08 and
KEGA 3/6301/08.
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