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Dr Irena Maliszewska

DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSES

•    Course codę: BLC023002

•    Course title: Environmental biochemistry and microbiology

•    Language of the lecturer: polish

Course form	Lecture	Classes	Laboratory	Project	Seminar
Number of hours/week *	2		3
Number of hours/semester*	30		45
Form of the course completion	E		colloquia + reports
ECTS credits	3		4
Total Student’s Workload	90		120

•    Level of the course (basic/advanced): advanced

•    Prereąuisites: course of microbiology

•    Name, first name and degree of the lecturer/supervisor: Irena Maliszewska, PhD

•    Names, first names and degrees of the team’s members: Dr inż. Katarzyna Zielińska

•    Year: II Semester: 3

•    Type of the course (obligatory/optional): obligatory

•    Aims of the course (effects of the course): The aim of the course is instruct students of biochemical aspects of bacterial adaptation in various ecosystems and relationships that exist among microbes, plants and animals.

•    Form of the teaching (traditional/e-learning):

•    Course description: The course presents information on various interactions that can occur between microbes and multicellular organisms. Special attention has been given to the virulence factors of bacteria and resistance mechanisms to antibiotics.

• Lecture:

Particular lectures contents	Number of hours
1 .Biochemical aspects of microbial adaptation (responses of bacteria to	2
osmotic stress and temperaturę). 2. Psychrophiles and psychrotrophs.	2
3.Soil microbiology- relations between solid phase and microorganisms.	2
4.Pathogen defense against antibiosis.	2
5.Symbiosis of bacteria and plants- biochemical and genetic control.	2
6.Transfer of bacterial genes in the environment- problems associated	2
with introduction of genetically modified microorganisms into soil. 7.Siderophores- bacterial aggresins. The role of iron ions in the	2
regulation process. 8. Methanotrophic bacteria in ecosystems.	2

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