Course

BIOCAT - Enzyme Kinetics (BIO910)

The course covers essential and advanced aspects of enzyme kinetics that can be applied to the PhD work.


Course description for study year 2025-2026. Please note that changes may occur.

Facts

Course code

BIO910

Credits (ECTS)

5

Semester tution start

Spring

Language of instruction

English

Number of semesters

1

Exam semester

Spring

Content

The course covers essential and advanced aspects of enzyme kinetics that can be applied in a PhD work. Emphasis is on experimental and computational aspects.

Learning outcome

The candidate will, upon completion of the course, be able to (i) design and test experimental assays to determine/estimate the essential characteristics/parameters for one or several multi substrate enzymatic processes, (ii) design mechanisms and test then by means of mathematical modelling (computational methods and sensitivity analysis), (iii) have a understandig for environmental and regulational factors that has an impact on simple and composed enzymatic processes.

Required prerequisite knowledge

Master degree in biological chemistry or similar.

Exam

Course teacher(s)

Course coordinator:

Mark van der Giezen

Method of work

Lectures, group work, lab exercises and excersises in mathematical modelling. In addition, the student will work on a mandatory project that will be handed in at the end of the course.

Open for

Biological Chemistry - PhD Technology and Natural Science - PhD programme
Admission to Single Courses at the Faculty of Science and Technology

Course assessment

There must be an early dialogue between the course supervisor, the student union representative and the students. The purpose is feedback from the students for changes and adjustments in the course for the current semester.In addition, a digital course evaluation must be carried out at least every three years. Its purpose is to gather the students experiences with the course.
The course description is retrieved from FS (Felles studentsystem). Version 1