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Postgraduate Course: Introduction to Biological Kinetics (PGBI11073)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Biological Sciences CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
Summary**Online Distance Learning Course**

Many drugs designed in the laboratory fail in clinical trials. To understand why, students need a knowledge of pharmacokinetics, for which an appreciation of biological kinetics is required. In addition more complex modelling of drug targets as systems of interacting molecules is emerging. Other courses in the MSc require a knowledge of elementary kinetics. This course is designed to introduce these concepts.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Course Start Date 06/04/2015
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 98 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 50% = Group Assessment (including maximum 20% variation for Peer Assessment of contribution)

50% = Electronic Portfolio (comprising of learning log and contribution to skills profile)
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students should be able to:

- Demonstrate an appreciation of biological time scales at the molecular level;

- Show advanced knowledge of the factors that affect molecular time scales;

- Appreciate how to extract first order association/dissociation constants and half-lives from experimental data;

- Appreciate the scale of diffusion-limited processes and how to show that they are so;

- Demonstrate advanced knowledge of enzyme kinetics and derivation and manipulation of attendant equations.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsIntroBiolKin
Contacts
Course organiserDr Linda Gilmore
Tel: (0131 6)50 7047
Email: linda.gilmore@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Vicky Mactaggart
Tel: (0131 6)51 7052
Email: Vicky.Mactaggart@ed.ac.uk
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