NNMK13003U Forensic Geobiology
Volume 2013/2014
Education
MSc Programme in
Biology
Content
The course will provide students with an introduction to the application of DNA and species identification in a forensic context, through an intensive two-week summer school. We will focus on specific interdisciplinary forensic topics including wildlife genetics, human genomics, environmental biology, geology, entomology and botany. The teaching will be a series of lectures, exercises and group presentations, which will be evaluated during the course.
When the course is completed, students will have gained insight and skills regarding the application of the following research areas in a forensic context:
- Cell biology – mitosis, meisosis, chromomes X, Y, autosomal, mtDNA
- Genetics – coding and noncoding DNA, loci types (STR, indels, SNPs)
- Molecular biology – DNA isolation, PCR, sequencing, fragment length analysis
- Population dynamics and heredity (e.g. kindship analysis)
- Species identification
- Biostatistics
- Botany
- Entomology
- Geology – geochemical analysis
Learning Outcome
Competences
- Discuss and critically review scientific articles
- Critically assess and analyse forensic data and present the results before an audience
Skills and knowledge
- Outline the current knowledge presenting the baseline for all forensic biology and geology
- Describe the bio-statistical methodology used in forensic genetics
- Describe the methodological advances within the different aspects of forensic biology and geology
- Describe the different types of human genomic variations and what makes them useful in a forensic context
- Describe the different disciplines encompassed by forensic GeoBiology
- Carry out forensic case-work evaluations
Literature
Papers,
handbooks, manuals and protocols will be
available.
Academic qualifications
BSc degree from the
Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen or
similar.
Teaching and learning methods
The summer school will be
mainly based on a series of lectures followed by individual and
group exercises. We plan to include casework where students are
presented with forensic casework.
Workload
- Category
- Hours
- Lectures
- 50
- Practical exercises
- 26
- Preparation
- 100
- Project work
- 30
- Total
- 206
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Exam
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Continuous assessment, 2 weeksPortfolio, 2 weeksEvaluation of written reports and oral presentations. 50%.
Overall assessment of active participation. 50%. - Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- passed/not passed
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners.
Criteria for exam assesment
In accordance with the learning
outcomes.
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NNMK13003U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- Placement
- Summer
- Schedule
- Week 34-35. 2 weeks, 5 days a week, 9am-5pm.
- Course capacity
- No limit.
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Biology and Animal Science
Contracting department
- The Natural History Museum of Denmark
Course responsibles
- Anders Johannes Hansen (ajhansen@sund.ku.dk)
Lecturers
Anders Johannes Hansen, Eline Lorenzen, Michael Houmark-Nielsen
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