Biotechnology S5

This teaching unit covers the different categories of biotechnologies according to their field of application:

• Plant biotechnologies concern the agri-food industry and include a series of technologies using the organism of plants and their cells to produce and transform food products, biomaterials and energy, but also recombinant proteins for therapeutic purposes

• Animal biotechnologies concern the fields of health, medicine, diagnosis, tissue engineering as well as the development of genetic or molecular processes with a therapeutic purpose.
• Microbial biotechnologies concern the use of micro-organisms (viruses or bacteria) and their cultivation within the agro-food/pharmaceutical industry or their interest in environmental protection.

The teaching offered to students in the Bachelor 3 Life Sciences is to enable them to discover or deepen their theoretical knowledge of the various biotechnologies as well as to master the associated tools/applications.

• Study biology from concrete applications: Assimilation and revision of complementary knowledge (animal biology, plant physiology, molecular and cellular biology, molecular biology of prokaryotes...)
• Assimilation of basic cultures in biotechnology (cloning, recombinant DNA technique...)
• To anchor the theoretical courses on the socio-economic reality
• Discover a field where employment is important (medicine, agronomy, environment...)

• Competencies covered by the EU:

  • To acquire in-depth knowledge in the field of genetic engineering and its applications.
  • Know how to master this theoretical knowledge and develop an analytical mind to build open and educated citizens in the field of biotechnology
  • Develop a sense of group work, distribution of work tasks and organization
  To be able to present a written work with arguments and synthesis

The foundations acquired in "Cellular and Molecular Biology" as well as in "Biotechnologies and Challenges of Sustainable Agronomy" in previous years will allow students to fully benefit from the new knowledge brought by this teaching unit.