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Plant, fungal and bacterial viruses - MB140P96
Title: Viry rostlin, hub a bakterií
Czech title: Viry rostlin, hub a bakterií
Guaranteed by: Department of Genetics and Microbiology (31-140)
Faculty: Faculty of Science
Actual: from 2021
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:written
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: 1
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Level: specialized
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Mgr. Vojtěch Šroller, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. Vojtěch Šroller, Ph.D.
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Last update: Mgr. Vojtěch Šroller, Ph.D. (13.12.2023)
INFORMATION FOR SUMMER SEMESTER 2022
Thursdays Viničná 5 from 3.40 p.m

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The course aims to show viruses as diverse group of intracellular parasites, which are common part of natural
systems. The course aims especially on viruses found in insects, plants, fungi, protists or bacteria, which
represents majority of known virus species. In the introductory part, we will focus on virus phylogenesis, similarity
with viruses found in human and vertebrates, their structure and genetics. Further, we will in more detail talk over
virus groups, their history, replication strategy, pathogenesis ecology and their use in biomedical research and
practice. Research of plant viruses has been long time focused on pathogens of agricultural plants. Today, thanks
to wide sequencing projects, we are discovering viruses with unknown pathology. Fungal viruses can decrease
virulence of host; insect viruses are used in the laboratory research and bacteriophages represent the largest
group of viruses.
Literature -
Last update: RNDr. Irena Lichá, CSc. (26.05.2017)

Knipe, D. M., Howley, P. M (2013). Fields virology. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Mgr. Vojtěch Šroller, Ph.D. (30.08.2019)

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Syllabus -
Last update: Mgr. Vojtěch Šroller, Ph.D. (13.12.2023)

1. Plant, fungal, viruses, viruses that infect protists and bacteriophages from historical perspective, their evolution and taxonomy

2. Structure of viral particles, viral genomes, replication strategies of viruses

3. Interaction of virus with host cell, patogenesis of viral infections

4. Laboratory virological methods

5. Viruses infecting protist, mimivirus and its relatives, epidemiology, ecology, virophages

6. Plant viruses and viroids, history, taxonomy

7. Vectors of plant viruses, replication strategy, gene expression and resistance

8. Insect viruses, their classification, ecology, gene expression

9. Viruses and prions of yeast, fungi and unicellular organisms

10. Viruses of lichens and algae

11. Bacteriophages, history, evolution, interaction with host and biology

12. Toxin genes of bacteriophages, bacteriophage therapy

 
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