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Teaching of the Küpper
group (as Department of Plant Biophysics &
Biochemistry and formerly workgroup at Konstanz
University)
(discontinued courses are indicated with the respective
date)
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language of
the documents / lectures
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Description of
the
teaching activity
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2nd
semester
in German
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Lectures of the practical
course on microscopic plant anatomy
(2010-2013, in
Konstanz).
Lectures held by myself (lectures of the
other parts on homepages of my
colleagues):
- Leaves (slides in colour
or b/w)
- Leaf
specialisations (slides in colour
or b/w),
- Meristems & Growth (slides in colour
or b/w) |
advanced students
(MSc, PhD:
biology, life science, biophysics and
biochemistry)
in English
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Lectures of the advanced
course "Bioinorganic
Chemistry and Biophysics of Plants"
(2012-continued, in Konstanz and České Budějovice):
- Introduction:
- Basics of
coordination chemistry in biological
Systems: colour
"Bioinorganic chemistry & Biophysics
of Plants": colour
- Biophysics of Photosynthesis as the
fundamental process in plants: colour
- Methods for analysing photosynthesis: colour
- Further methods of UV-VIS absorption and
fluorescence spectroscopy in vivo and in
situ: colour
- Work with
metalloproteins: expression, isolation,
purification and characterisation by
biochemical assays and metalloproteomics:
colour
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Chromatographic methods: basics, advanced
HPLC methods: colour
- X-ray emission
spectroscopy (EDX, PIXE, µXRF)for
analysing element distribution in
biological samples and X-ray absorption
spectroscopy (XANES, EXAFS) for analysing
biological metal complexes: colour
- Magnetic
Resonance Spectroscopy (EPR, NMR) as
structural tools: colour
- Trace element nutrition in plants:
uptake and transport of transition metals:
colour
- Introduction to the essential role
of metals in photosynthesis: colour
- From physiology to biochemistry to
spectroscopy and protein structure: copper
and iron proteins: colour
- Biogeochemical
cycles of elements, in particular metals:
colour
- Nitrogen fixation and regulation of
photosynthesis for nitrogen fixation: colour
- Micronutrients in algae: iodine and
iron: colour
- Metal
Toxicity: basic principles: colour
- Copper as an essential, but also highly
toxic, biologically redox-active metal: colour
- Cadmium as a highly toxic but
possibly also beneficial, biologically
redox-inert metal: colour
- Arsenic
toxicity and speciation in plants, incl.
implications for human nutrition: colour
- Principles of metal detoxification in
plants: colour
- Biotechnological use of metal
accumulation in plants: colour
- Literature searches and scientific
writing: colour
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advanced
students
(PhD and postdoc)
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PLANTMETALS
training school 2023
for work with metalloproteins
- Photosynthesis: role of metalloproteins,
theory of Chl fluorescence kinetics (Filis
Morina): colour
- Work with
metalloproteins: expression, isolation,
purification and characterisation by
biochemical assays and metalloproteomics
(Hendrik Küpper):
colour
- Basics of metalloprotein
biochemistry (Hendrik Küpper):
colour
- Metal sensing of the cell wall including
background PME assays (Marie-Theres Hauser): colour
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Theory of X-ray emission spectroscopy
(EDX, PIXE, µXRF) for analysing element
distribution in biological samples and
X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XANES,
EXAFS) for analysing biological metal
complexes (Hendrik Küpper): colour
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Mechanisms of metal deficiency &
toxicity (Hendrik Küpper): colour
- Metalloprotein prediction programs
(Marie-Theres Hauser): colour
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designed by Hendrik Küpper, last modified 1
October 2023
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