COURSE CONTENT

The teaching method is the productive teaching method. Course contains amphitheater lectures by Professors or faculty members, contract holders and PhDs and lectures by invited expert scientists on modern and topical genetics issues.

Theory and laboratory exercises in various subjects, such as:

1)         Drosophila Genetics – Giant Chromosomes – Sex Chromatin

2)         Blood group antigens – ABO and Rhesus factor

3)         Human chromosomes – Normal and Pathological karyotype

4)         Rolling exercise: Culturing human lymphocytes – Cell collection and staining – Evaluation of SCEs.

5)         Molecular and biochemical genetics

Tutorial exercises such as:

1)         International literature search

2)         Probabilities

3)         Oncogenes

4)         Family trees

5)         Mitosis and meiosis

6)         Applications of Cytogenetics

7)         Student presentations