Unit details

BIOC3003 Omics—Global Approaches to Cell Function

Credit

6 points

Offering
(see Timetable)

Availability	Location	Mode
Semester 2	UWA (Perth)	Face to face
Semester 2	Online	Online Restricted

Details for undergraduate courses

• Level 3 core unit in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Molecular Life Sciences; Biochemistry of Nutrition major sequences
• Level 3 elective

Content

This unit covers the global study of an organism's genes, proteins, carbohydrates and metabolites, and its role in cell structure and function in health and disease. It teaches the commonly used experimental approaches used to determine the genome, proteome, glycome and metabolome of particular cells and organelles including electrophoresis, high performance liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR). Students gain laboratory and research skills in methods of global analysis and data interpretation, as well as in oral and written presentation of scientific data. The opportunity to engage in a research project in a research laboratory may be offered (depending on staff availability) to students who are enrolled in a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major and also enrolled in this unit and BIOC3005 Cellular Biochemistry. Students who have achieved an average grade of 65 per cent or more in their second-year Biochemistry and Molecular Biology unit(s) are eligible to apply. The research project runs for about 10 weeks and replaces the teaching laboratory components of this unit and BIOC3005 Cellular Biochemistry. Students undertaking a research project still do the laboratory quiz and the mark for their written report on the project replaces the laboratory report written by students taking the teaching laboratory component.

Outcomes

Students are able to gain an understanding of the global approach to studying genes, proteins, carbohydrates and metabolites in cells and the information that this approach provides.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) final theory examination; (2) laboratory notebook and laboratory report; and (3) oral presentation. Further information is available in the unit outline.

For units commencing in May 2022 or later the availability of the supplementary assessment is subject to confirmation.

Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Except where supplementary assessment is not available in a unit, it will be offered to students in all units who:

• Are in good academic standing overall;
• Have passed over half the units taken in the teaching period concerned, except where they are only enrolled in two or less units in the period;
• Have submitted all assessment items in the unit;
• Have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit; and
• No finding of academic misconduct has been made against them in the unit concerned.

Additionally student may apply for supplementary assessment in any unit which is the final unit required for graduation in there course and where they have achieved a mark between 45 and 49 for the unit overall, or the same mark in any failed component item in the unit.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Dr Nicolas Taylor

Unit rules

Prerequisites:

Successful completion of two Unit(s) BIOC2001 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the Cell and Unit(s) BIOC2002 Biochemical Regulation of Cell Function

Co-requisites:

Nil

Incompatibility:

Nil

Contact hours

lectures: 21; presentation: 6; labs: 5 x 6 hours

Note

BIOC3003 has a compulsory face to face laboratory component, which will need to be completed (at a later date) before a final grade can be awarded for the unit, if the unit is completed in an online mode.