FARMBIOS4860 – Advanced molecular and pharmaceutical microbiology

After completing the course you have:

• Advanced knowledge about structure, pathogenesis, virulence factors, virulence mechanisms, and host-parasite interactions for a set of model pathogenic bacteria, virus and eukaryote microorganisms.
• Advanced understanding of the mechanism of action of antibacterial and antiviral agents.
• Advanced knowledge on the genetic factors that determine the virulence and resistance of microorganisms toward antimicrobial agents.
• Advanced understanding of the molecular mechanisms and cell biology related processes of infection.
• Advanced skills in the critical evaluation of research publications (methods, interpretation of results, conclusions), achieved through the parts of the curriculum consisting of review- and original research articles.
• The ability to communicate and argue around scientific questions, analyses and conclusions pertaining to the science within the field of infection biology, antimicrobial therapy and antimicrobial resistance, and the importance of these topics to human health, to specialists within the field.

The course is primarily open to students who have been admitted to the 5-year Master`s Programme in Pharmacy at the Department of Pharmacy, and who have either passed all courses up to and including FARM3130 – Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) and have approved all the compulsory assignments in the courses FARM4100 – Personalised Drug Therapy, FARM4110 – Comprehensive Biopharmacy and Formulation Technology and FARM4120 – Drug Development, or have passed the courses FARM4910K – Farmakoterapi og samfunnsfarmasi med fokus på norske terapitradisjoner og norske forhold, FARM4920K – Fra virkestoff til ferdig formulering med fokus på avanserte legemiddelformer and FARM4930K – Kvalitetssikring ved produksjon og klinisk utprøvning av legemidler, as well as students who have been admitted to the 2-year Master`s Programme in Bioscience at the Department of Biosciences at UiO.

Students admitted at UiO must apply for courses in Studentweb.

Pharmacy students need to contact the study administration at the Department of Pharmacy to apply for admittance to the course and exam.

If there is space available then others may also apply to take the course as long as their academic background is adequate. For more information on the procedure contact the study administration at the Department of Pharmacy.

For students with a pharmacy backround: Passed all courses up to and including FARM3130 – Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) and approved all compulsory parts of FARM4100 – Personalised Drug Therapy, FARM4110 – Comprehensive Biopharmacy and Formulation Technology and FARM4120 – Drug Development or equivalent academic background.

For students with a life science background: Completed a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences or equivalent. Access to the course may be granted to other students (eg students from Erasmus or other exchange programs) upon personal application, by documented theoretical background in microbiology or molecular biology corresponding to the courses BIOS2900 – Molecular Biology (continued) and BIOS3910 – Microbiology.

Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may apply to take this course as a single course student.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants..

• 20 - 21 lectures - the introductory lecture is compulsory
• Compulsory course (one day) about vaccines
• 1 mandatory assignment involving accessing and evaluating scientific literature, and culminating in student group work to make a scientific poster to be presented to the other students, and to be evaluated by course instructors and/or other experts within the field of microbiology.

Compulsory participation in the course must be completed and compulsory submissions must be approved to sit the exam.

Read more about what applies in the event of absence from compulsory activities.

A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.

Compulsory participation and approved assignments are valid for 3 years.

The course may be cancelled, if the number of enrolled students are low.

Final written exam, 4 hours, or oral exam depending on the number of students. Final exam counts 100% towards the finale grade. The decisions on the form of the exam will be made around the middle of the semester.

This course has compulsory exercises that must be approved before you can sit the finale exam.

It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses:

• FRM-MBV4860 – Molecular and Pharmaceutical Microbiology (continued)
• FRM-MBV9060 – Molecular and Pharmaceutical Microbiology (discontinued)
• FRM-MBV5060 – Molecular and pharmaceutical microbiology (continued)

You will be able to use the calculator in Inspera if the exam is written.

Casio FX-991EX calculators are handed out to all exam candidates at the beginning of the exam if the exam is oral.

This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:

• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Withdrawal during an examination / Resitting an examination