Innovative approaches in metabolic engineering

In this EU, students work in groups to conduct bibliographic research on a selection of medicinal plants during supervised tutorials in order to identify the plant's biomolecules that may have biological or even pharmacological properties. Using documents provided to them, each group identifies, proposes, and implements in practical work an extraction protocol and a simple biological activity test protocol to test the biostatic, antibiotic, or antioxidant activity of the targeted molecules. The literature review process and the results obtained in practical work, along with their analysis and interpretation, will be discussed during a poster presentation session, which will be assessed.

- Knowledge: knowledge of secondary metabolites of plants, their structure, and their biological activity

- Know-how: Search for and analyze bibliographic information, formulate a hypothesis, develop an experimental protocol to test biological activity, implement it, analyze and interpret the results, communicate the conclusions.

- Interpersonal skills: Working collaboratively in a group, arguing a point, communicating

L2 Biology