[{"Course code":"PNS0232","Version":1,"English name":"Hands on Metabolomics","Higher education credits":5.0,"Syllabus":"Finalized by: Institutionen för molekylära vetenskaper, 2024-02-12","Syllabus approved":"2024-02-12","Level within study regulation":"Third cycle","Subject":[{"Subject":"Biology,"},{"Subject":"Chemistry"}],"Grading scale":"Pass \/ Failed","Language":"Swedish","Entry requirements":"PhD students within the SLU Graduate School Focus on Food and Biomaterials are prioritized, but the course will be open for other PhD students and researchers if space allows.\n\nThe course does not require any previous experience in metabolomics.","Objectives":"The course gives an overview about hands-on experimental approaches used in metabolomics (e.g., sample preparation, data collection, data processing, statistics, and results interpretation). The main objective is to provide students with knowledge about metabolomics by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and mass spectrometry (MS). The course is focused on metabolomics applications and methods but gives a brief introduction to the basic principles of NMR and MS.\n\nAfter completing the course, the students shall be able to:\n\n- Describe the workflow in metabolomics analysis\n- Describe advantages and disadvantages of different analytical methods used in metabolomics\n- Describe the workflow for data processing in metabolomics\n- Describe different statistical methods used in metabolomics\n- Know the availability of different open access data bases in the field of metabolomics","Content":"The course includes lectures, workshops, a mini-symposium, and a project-based literature exercise).<br>\nThe lectures will cover basic principles of NMR and MS, metabolomics application areas, available open access resources, and workflows for NMR- and MS-based metabolomics (sample preparation, data collection, data processing, statistics, and result interpretation).\n\nOne workshop will focus on NMR-based metabolomics and the other on MS-based metabolomics. Each workshop starts with a demonstration of research facilities followed by a practical training session.\n\nThe mini-symposium will include presentations from invited speakers, which will share their metabolomics research.\n\nThe literature-based project exercise progresses during the entire course and should be related to a research project where the PhD student is involved. The student defines the project and identifies a suitable metabolomics workflow under supervision. The project is finally presented in a written report and at a seminar.\n\nAttendance at all scheduled activities is obligatory.\n\n**Pedagogical form**\n\nLectures, workshops, mini-symposium, project-based literature project exercise, final seminar.\n\nLearning outcomes are practiced during the project-based literature exercise and the final seminar.","Examination formats":"Attendance at all scheduled activities and approved individual report project. \r\n- If a student has failed an examination, the examiner has the right to issue supplementary assignments. This applies if it is possible and there are grounds to do so.\r\n\r\n- The examiner can provide an adapted assessment to students entitled to study support for students with disabilities following a decision by the university. Examiners may also issue an adapted examination or provide an alternative way for the students to take the exam.\r\n\r\n- If this syllabus is withdrawn, SLU may introduce transitional provisions for examining students admitted based on this syllabus and who have not yet passed the course.\r\n\r\n- For the assessment of an independent project (degree project), the examiner may also allow a student to add supplemental information after the deadline for submission. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.\r\n","Organisation":[{"code":"425","Organisation":"Department of Molecular Sciences"}],"Other information":"\r\n- The right to participate in teaching and\/or supervision only applies for the course instance the student was admitted to and registered on.\r\n\r\n- If there are special reasons, students are entitled to participate in components with compulsory attendance when the course is given again. Read more in the Education Planning and Administration Handbook.\r\n"}]