GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
GENERAL CONCEPTS IN BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY SCREENING/FRG-3030
Course Title: GENERAL CONCEPTS IN BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY SCREENING
Credits 3 ECTS 6
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Compulsory
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Students will have information on Bioassay-guided activity fractionation and isolation techniques to obtain novel drug active constituents.
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Ethnopharmacologic and anthropologic sciences from folk medicine studies
2. Week  The variety of screening methods: Ethnobotanical and ethnomedicinal screening, in vivo and in vitro biological screening, phytochemical screening
3. Week  General terms (The importance of standardization and activity screening)
4. Week  General terms (The features of the animals used in the experiments, the application of the test materials)
5. Week  Strategies in the application of scientific studies (Basic screening, wide range screening, programmed screening)
6. Week  Strategies in the application of scientific studies (The data base of the literature survey, evaluation of the chemotaxonomical, ethnobotanical/ethnob
7. Week  General terms of Biological Activity Studies
8. Week  Bioassay-guided activity fractionation techniques and isolation studies: General terms
9. Week  Bioassay-guided activity fractionation techniques and isolation studies: Practices
10. Week  Practices on the compounds isolated through Bioassay-guided activity fractionation and isolation techniques
11. Week  General terms of Bioassay-guided activity studies (Calculation of LD50, ED50, IC50, and their importance in screening)
12. Week  General terms of Bioassay-guided activity studies (Statistical analyses)
13. Week  Hippocratic screening studies
14. Week  General Evaluation
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
50
 Assignment
0
0
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
50
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
50
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
14
3
42
 Searching in Internet and Library
14
1
14
 Material Design and Implementation
0
 Report Preparing
0
 Preparing a Presentation
1
2
2
 Presentation
1
10
10
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
1
2
2
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
1
30
30
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
142
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
5.68
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
6
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6X
7X
8
9
10X
11X
12
13X
14
15
16X
17
18
19
20X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Prof.Dr. Esra AKKOL)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/esrak)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (esrak@gazi.edu.tr)