Course Overview

> The covers:

- Most recent advances in plant development and reproduction with up
to date approaches including genetic, reverse genetic and NGS based
approaches.
- Epigenetic mechanisms in plants and their functions in plant
development and reproduction.
- Genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying plant development
control, and possible biotechnological applications.
- Case studies using recent article on various plant model to analyse
mechanisms controlling plant development.

Learning Achievement

Competence

Course prerequisites

- Students must have 1st year Master knowledge of biological science,
plant biology and biotechnology.
- Language prerequisites: a good level of scientific English.

Grading Philosophy

- A 2 hour written exam.
- Scientific paper group presentation

> Rules for failure: an overall grade of 10/20 is necessary to pass
the exam.

Course schedule

- Content of the course is related to different aspects of plant
development, and analysis of the mechanisms that control it.
- The use of state of the art technologies in Molecular Biology,
(including omics), Developmental Biology, Cell Imaging approaches to
address various aspects of plant development, reproduction and
applications in Plant Biotechnologies will be highlighted by
literature case studies.

Course type

> 158 hours of lectures, seminars, inverted class, scientific paper analysis and oral presentation: - 48 hours in-class (9 hours lectures, 14 hours professional seminars with INRA or CNRS researchers, 23 hours group work, 2 hours exam). - 110 self-study hours (50 hours private reading, 50 hours exam preparation, 10 hours group work preparation).

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Other information

A maximum number of 20 students is recommended for this course.Duration: 12 weeks (Fall Semester)

Language of instruction: English
Mode of delivery: Face-to-face teaching: seminars, inversed classes, group work

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