Marine Biochemistry

The course is offered every second year, next time will be in spring 2019.
A selection of the following subjects will be included:
-Seawater as habitat: chemistry of seawater, light and temperature, ocean currents, and carbon cycle in seawater
-Primary producers: classification, cultures and growth, algal pigments, selected metabolic pathways
-Secondary producers: classification, growth and development, chemical composition
-Structure – function relationships in selected marine polysaccharides: alginate from brown algae and chitin/chitosan from crustaceans, with emphasis on biotechnological applications

Through central examples the students shall after completing the course be given insight into the biochemistry of plants and animals living in the ocean.

Compulsory laboratory course including harvesting, isolation and characterization of components from selected marine organisms. The course will be given in English if necessary.