Weekly Plan |
Weeks | Day | Weekly Lecture Topics |
First Week | Day 1 | Discovery, nature, origin and evolutionary importance of viruses |
Day 2 | Structure of Viruses |
Day 3 | Isolation, purification and cultivation of viruses |
Day 4 | Viral taxonomy: Classification and nomenclature of different groups of viruses |
Day 5 | ● MCQ ● Assignments |
Second Week | Day 1 | Diversity, classification and one step multiplication curve |
Day 2 | Lytic and lysogenic phages |
Day 3 | Regulation of transcription in lambda phage |
Day 4 | Phage phenotypes, phenotype mixing and phage therapy |
Day 5 | ● MCQ ● Assignments |
Third Week | Day 1 | Principal events involved in replication: Adsorption, penetration and uncoating. |
Day 2 | Viral nucleic acid and protein synthesis |
Day 3 | Intracellular trafficking, assembly, maturation and release |
Day 4 | Host response to viral infection |
Day 5 | ● MCQ ● Assignments |
Fourth Week | Day 1 | TMV and BBTV |
Day 2 | Herpes, Polio and Influenza virus |
Day 3 | SV40 and Adeno Virus, Poxviruses |
Day 4 | Hepatitis and Retroviruses |
Day 5 | ● MCQ ● Assignments |
Fifth Week | Day 1 | Visualization and enumeration of virus particles |
Day 2 | Physical and biological methods of detection of viruses |
Day 3 | Immunological and molecular methods detection of viruses |
Day 4 | Characterization of viral product expressed in the infected cells |
Day 5 | ● MCQ ● Assignments |
Sixth Week | Day 1 | General methods of propagation of plant viruses |
Day 2 | Purification of plant viruses using centrifugation, chromatography and electrophoresis techniques |
Day 3 | Methods employed in identification of plant viruses |
Day 4 | Viruses as biopesticides |
Day 5 | ● MCQ ● Assignments |
Seventh Week | Day 1 | Common cold, SARS, Influenza |
Day 2 | Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Human papilloma |
Day 3 | Herpes, Polio, Rabies, Small pox |
Day 4 | HIV, Hepatitis, Dengue, Yellow fever |
Day 5 | ● Quizzes ● Assignments ● Paragraph and essay questions |
Eighth Week | Day 1 | Introduction to oncogenic viruses |
Day 2 | Concepts of oncogenes and proto-oncogenes |
Day 3 | Understanding human carcinogenesis by using tumor viruses as experimental tools |
Day 4 | Prevention and treatment of virus induced cancer |
Day 5 | ● MCQ ● Assignments |
Ninth Week | Day 1 | Host specific and nonspecific defense mechanisms involved in resistance to and recovery from virus infections |
Day 2 | Role of interferon in viral infections |
Day 3 | Viral Chemotherapy: Nucleoside analogs, reverse transcriptase inhibitors, protease inhibitors |
Day 4 | History of vaccines especially smallpox and polio. New methods: subunit vaccines, anti-idiotype and DNA vaccines |
Day 5 | ● MCQ ● Assignments |
Tenth Week | Day 1 | Use of viral vectors in cloning and expression |
Day 2 | Gene therapy and Phage display |
Day 3 | Emerging and re emerging viruses |
Day 4 | Viruses and future |
Day 5 | ● MCQ ● Assignments |
Eleventh Week | Day 1 | Exam preparation and assessment of assignments |
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Day 4 |
Day 5 |
Twelfth Week | Day 1 | Assessment at the end of the course, which comprises of 40% of Online or In-term assessment and 60% Proctored end term exam. |
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