ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 30 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 51
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Microbiology and Parasitology
Areas: Microbiology
Center Faculty of Sciences
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable
• Describe the molecular bases of immunity.
• Describe the basic structural and functional characteristics of the immune system.
• Identify the fundamentals of vaccination.
• Interpret assays for the identification and/or characterization of antigens or antibodies.
• Access databases and virtual libraries of interest in immunology.
• Design immunological tests that allow us to confirm or reject a working hypothesis.
THEORY SYLLABUS
UNIT 1. Introduction to the immune system. Concept of innate immunity and specific immunity.
UNIT 2. Cells and organs of the immune system.
UNIT 3. Natural or innate immunity.
UNIT 4. Antibodies and Antigens. Immunological diagnosis.
UNIT 5. Humoral immune response. T-dependent and T-independent antigens.
UNIT 6. Cellular immune response.
UNIT 7. Vaccines.
UNIT 8. Alterations associated with the immune system: hypersensitivity, autoimmunity and immunosuppression.
LABORATORY PRACTICES
PRACTICE 1. Agglutination technique. Microagglutination. Agglutination with latex particles.
PRÄCTIC 2. Determination of the titer of antibodies against different antigens.
PRACTICE 3. Determination of blood groups using monoclonal antibodies.
PRACTICE 4. Enzyme immunoassay (ELISA).
PRACTICE 5. Immunochromatography.
- Abbas, A. 2022. Inmunología celular y molecular. Elsevier.
- Male, David, Peebles, R.S., Male, V. 2021. Inmunología. Elsevier.
- Punt, J et al. KUBY Inmunología. 2020. MacGraw-Hill Education LLC.
- González A. Inmuno Power. 2021. LaEsfera de los Libros.
- Zubeldia J.M., Baeza M.L., Chivato, T, Jáuregui I, Senent CJ. Libro de las enfermedades alérgicas. 2021. Fundación BBVA.
The skills that will be worked on more intensively in this subject are:
Basic:
CG1 - Possess and understand fundamental knowledge about the organization and function of biological systems at the cellular and molecular levels.
CB1 - Students have demonstrated possession and understanding of knowledge in an area of study that is based on general secondary education, and is usually found at a level that, although supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects they involve knowledge coming from the forefront of their field of study.
Transverse:
CT6 - Ability to search, analyze and manage information from various sources.
CT14 - Ability to apply knowledge to practice.
CT15 - Capacity for oral and written communication.
Specific:
CES9 - Understand the components of the immune system, its structure, function and mechanisms of action, as well as design and execute immunochemical techniques and interpret the results.
The achievement of the basic training of the student will be carried out through expository teaching, interactive teaching and the completion of assignments.
The expository teaching will be carried out through master classes (30 hours), where the theoretical foundations of the subject will be explained with the help of audiovisual and other media that the teacher deems appropriate. These classes acquire a special relevance due to the fact that the students have little knowledge related to the subject. The active participation of the student will be sought, who will be encouraged to intervene continuously.
Interactive teaching will be carried out through laboratory practices and seminars in which works will be presented.
The practices of the subject (15 h), of compulsory attendance, will serve to illustrate the theoretical contents of the subject and will be fundamentally oriented towards the student acquiring skills and practical experiences. Basic immunological laboratory techniques will be used.
The seminars, compulsory attendance, will allow individual or group activities to be proposed that will enhance the participation of students from a critical and argumentative approach. At the same time, the limitation in terms of the number of students attending the seminars will allow favoring interventions at the individual level from different perspectives or orientations for the topics worked on, which will facilitate the acquisition of very useful skills for achieving the objectives. fixed.
Finally, tutorials will be held to clarify particular problems of each student and facilitate continuous monitoring of the subject.
In addition, the students will compulsorily carry out group work, they will expose the contents with audiovisual and blackboard support, and finally they will discuss said contents in a critical and constructive manner.
The USC Virtual Campus will be used at all times to support teaching. The virtual course allows students enrolled in the subject to access all the content taught by the teacher, as well as to have information related to the subject, programs, timetables, seminars, tutorials, etc.
The evaluation will be carried out through a final exam that represents 70% and a continuous evaluation that will represent the remaining 30%.
The student's final grade will consider both the result of the exam and all the activities carried out: attendance and participation in master classes, attendance and participation in laboratory practices and group work.
The evaluation system will consist of the following sections:
FINAL EXAM: Atta 7.0 points (CG1, CT15, CES9)
CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT: Atta 3.0 points:
1. Attendance and participation in practical classes: Ata 1.0 points. The ability to apply knowledge to practice (CT14), or management of immunological techniques and the interpretation of results (CES9), or knowledge of the organization and function of two biological systems at the cellular and molecular levels, and the ability to communicate orally and in writing ( CT15)
2. Attendance and participation in maxistrais classes: Atta 1.0 points. Oral and written communication skills (CT15), knowledge of the organization and function of two biological systems and the immune system in particular (CB1 and CG1) will be assessed.
3. Completion and presentation of work: Atta 1.0 points. The ability to search, analyze and manage information from various sources (CT6) will be valued.
-Students who do not attend less than 80% of the practice hours will not be able to pass the subject.
-To pass the subject, it is essential to obtain a minimum qualification in each and every two sections.
-In case of not passing the subject in the First Opportunity, the student will be assessed in the Second Opportunity of, at least, those sections in which they did not achieve the minimum qualification.
MOI IMPORTANT:
“For cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, it will be applicable or established in the “Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of two students and the review of qualifications”.
Hours of face-to-face classes and student work (non-face-to-face).
Expository teaching:
Total hours: 99
Attendance: 30% = 30 hours
Non-face-to-face 70% = 69 hours
Practices:
Total hours: 30
Attendance: 50% = 15 hours
Non-face-to-face 50% = 15 hours
Seminars (includes Works)
Total hours: 9
Attendance: 33% = 3 hours
Non-face-to-face 66% = 6 hours
Tutorials in small groups
Total hours: 12
Attendance: 33% = 3 hours
Non-face-to-face 66% = 9 hours
TOTAL
Total hours: 150
Contact hours: 51
Non-contact hours: 99
The study must be comprehensive and not rote, relating the contents of the subject with those of related subjects.
Regularly consult the course developed in the Virtual Classroom.
Consult any doubt with the teacher.
The subject is taught in the two official languages of the community, Spanish and Galician.
Miguel Blanco Alvarez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Microbiology and Parasitology
- Area
- Microbiology
- miguel.blanco [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Jesus Eulogio Blanco Alvarez
- Department
- Microbiology and Parasitology
- Area
- Microbiology
- jesuseulogio.blanco [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Jorge Blanco Alvarez
- Department
- Microbiology and Parasitology
- Area
- Microbiology
- jorge.blanco [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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