ID:
508330
Duration (hours):
24
CFU:
3
SSD:
BOTANICA SISTEMATICA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (24/09/2025 - 16/01/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
- To know the main environmental fungal taxa and their life cycles, based on the most up-to-date knowledge of phylogenetic systematics;
- be able to frame and describe the main both structural and metabolic potentiality of biotechnological interest, with particular reference to secondary metabolism;
- be able to frame and describe the lifestyle dynamics of the main fungal groups producing extrolites, for the purpose of biotechnological exploitation;
- know how to manage the main practical and laboratory mycological aspects;
- know how to critically organize an environmental micrological investigation with biotechnological purposes.
- be able to frame and describe the main both structural and metabolic potentiality of biotechnological interest, with particular reference to secondary metabolism;
- be able to frame and describe the lifestyle dynamics of the main fungal groups producing extrolites, for the purpose of biotechnological exploitation;
- know how to manage the main practical and laboratory mycological aspects;
- know how to critically organize an environmental micrological investigation with biotechnological purposes.
Course Prerequisites
At the beginning of the course introductory knowledge concerning mycology will be provide. To make the course as profitable as possible, the student should have basic notions of microbiology, with particular reference to the distinctive characteristics between bacterial and fungal microorganisms (cellular structure and lifestyle).
Teaching Methods
Frontal lesson. During each lesson, both basic theoretical concepts and application aspects supported by specific examples will be explained. The main fungal species will be presented and discussed by means of a descriptive sheet, including both morphological and physio-ecological aspects. Students will be involved and motivated to discuss the topics considered, also through a shared reading of the most recent scientific evidence published in international mycological journals. If present students belonging to the categories defined in Annex A - Teaching Methods 2023-24, inclusion and supplementary teaching actions will be carried out.
Assessment Methods
Oral examination carried out together with module 1. The student will be asked to answer exhaustively 3 questions approximately, aimed at verifying the acquisition of the theoretical notions and the practical-applicative aspects presented during the course. The student could express the will to discuss a topic of personal interest, declaring to have carried out an in-depth study in this regard.
Texts
Lessons will be conducted with exhaustive presentations, adequate for the comprehension of the course.
Further teaching and in-depth material (i.e. paper, review,...) will be made available during of the lessons and will be in English (since it is unavailable in Italian).
Out of self-interest, students may refer to "Handbook of Fungal Biotechnology" 2nd Ed., Taylor & Francis, 2003.
Further teaching and in-depth material (i.e. paper, review,...) will be made available during of the lessons and will be in English (since it is unavailable in Italian).
Out of self-interest, students may refer to "Handbook of Fungal Biotechnology" 2nd Ed., Taylor & Francis, 2003.
Contents
Fungi as modular organisms: filamentous fungi, yeasts and yeast-like fungi, dimorphic and polymorphic.
Fungal growth, morphogenesis, principles of nutrition, structural peculiarities, with particular regard to those of biotechnological interest; basic presentation of the fungal genome with focus on transposable elements and micovirus.
The updated systematics and taxonomy of the V kingdom, way of life, exploitation and environmental adaptation.
How fungi fit into biotechnology: historical, recent applications and new potentiality.
Presentation of the fungal phyla with particular reference to Cryptomycota, Chytridiomycota, Mucoromycota, Ascomycota e Basidiomycota; within them, presentation of the main fungal taxa of biotechnological interest, with details on reproductive cycles and peculiar metabolic, fermentative and adaptive characteristics, origin of potential application.
Focus on the main categories of molecules of biotechnological interest and on extracellular enzymes, with reference to processes, substrates, influence of environmental factors.
How to manage the fungal species useful for biotechnology: laboratory best practices, instruments, methodologies for strain growth and iper-production.
Fungal growth, morphogenesis, principles of nutrition, structural peculiarities, with particular regard to those of biotechnological interest; basic presentation of the fungal genome with focus on transposable elements and micovirus.
The updated systematics and taxonomy of the V kingdom, way of life, exploitation and environmental adaptation.
How fungi fit into biotechnology: historical, recent applications and new potentiality.
Presentation of the fungal phyla with particular reference to Cryptomycota, Chytridiomycota, Mucoromycota, Ascomycota e Basidiomycota; within them, presentation of the main fungal taxa of biotechnological interest, with details on reproductive cycles and peculiar metabolic, fermentative and adaptive characteristics, origin of potential application.
Focus on the main categories of molecules of biotechnological interest and on extracellular enzymes, with reference to processes, substrates, influence of environmental factors.
How to manage the fungal species useful for biotechnology: laboratory best practices, instruments, methodologies for strain growth and iper-production.
Course Language
Italian
More information
During the carrying on of the lessons it will be possible to dwell on some species or matters of biotechnological interest that are subject of new reports by the international scientific community. The Professor will be available for agreed meetings with students.
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