Fungal Biology
Course content
Fungal diversity:
- Phylogeny, taxonomy, Ascomycota, Basiodiomycota, basal lineages, Oomycota
- Structure and differentiation and nutrient acquisition
- Dispersal and survival
Fungal populations and genetics:
- Genetics and mating types
- Population genetics
- Molecular markers and analysis
Ecosystem mycology:
- Life-styles, nutritional modes
- Mycorrhizal fungi
- Saprotrophic and wood decaying fungi
- Fungal communities
Fungal interactions:
- Plant pathogens, ecology and lifecycles, emerging diseases
- Fungal infections in insects
- Mutualistic insect-fungal interactions
Knowledge:
By the end of the course the student can:
- describe the diversity of fungi in the light of phylogeny, life-styles and nutritional modes
- explain how fungi interact with plants and insects in beneficial and harmful ways
- critically evaluate different (molecular) methods for detection of specific fungi, detecting the genetic variation in populations and identifying species in complex communities
- discuss, put into perspective, and criticize
original research papers in modern mycology
Skills:
By completing the course the student can:
- work experimentally with fungi including growing, transferring and setting up small experiments with fungi in pure culture
- identify fungi from the environments based on
isolations, pure culturing, simple DNA extraction, PCR and sequence
analysis
Competences:
By the end of the course the student can:
- integrate knowledge of fungal diversity in its broadest sense in order to solve specific questions within mycology
- choose between various isolation and identification methods of fungi suiting particulate mycological questions or uses
- put fungi into general ecological, biological and microbial ecological context
Lectures, demonstrations, laboratory and computer practicals, group discussions and student presentations.
See Absalon.
Introductory courses (bachelor level) in microbiology and/or
mycology, ecology, evolutionary biology or phylogenetics and
molecular biology are recommended
Academic qualifications equivalent to a BSc degree is
recommended.
The course is identical to the discontinued course NBIK13016U
Mycology. Therefore you cannot register for NBIK18000U Fungal
Biology, if you have already passed NBIK13016U Mycology.
If you are registered with examination attempts in NBIK13016U
Mycology without having passed the course, you have to use your
last examination attempts to pass the exam in NBIK18000U Fungal
Biology. You have a total of three examination
attempts.
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
-
Oral examination, 20 minutes (no preparation time)Oral examination is based on an original scientific paper handed out at the last teaching day accompanied with specific questions relating to the paper.
- Aid
- Without aids
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners
Criteria for exam assessment
In order to obtain the grade 12 the student should convincingly and accurately demonstrate the knowledge, skills and competences described under Learning Outcome.
Single subject courses (day)
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 21
- Class Instruction
- 14
- Preparation
- 78
- Practical exercises
- 21
- Laboratory
- 21
- Guidance
- 14
- Exam
- 37
- English
- 206
Kursusinformation
- Language
- English
- Course number
- NBIK18000U
- ECTS
- 7,5 ECTS
- Programme level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
-
1 block
- Schedulegroup
-
A
- Capacity
- 30
- Studyboard
- Study Board for the Biological Area
Contracting department
- Department of Biology
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
Contracting faculty
- Faculty of Science
Course Coordinator
- Rasmus Kjøller (7-7a697b757d7b73486a717736737d366c73)
Teacher
Rasmus Kjøller, Søren Rosendahl, Michael Poulsen (all KU-BIO) and Annette Bruun Jensen (KU-PLEN)
Timetable
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