BIO2030/FSC5071 - Timetable of Topics 2025

Week  #

Weekly topic

Lab/Workshop

Staff

1

Challenges of Food Security

Food Security workshop

ME/KM

2

Turning biomass into food

Harvest 1

KM

3

Carbon dioxide and plant growth

Data analysis

ME

4

Water and food security

Harvest 2, physiology

ME

5

Climate change and nutrition

Data analysis. Review for test and lab report

ME

6

Exploiting genetic variation for improved crop production

Test 1, Introduction to Genetic resources

KM

7

Detecting genetic modifications in practice

PCR lab, Running gel?

MP

8

Crop improvement in a changing world

Running gel? Poster prep

ME/KM

9

Ecology of food

Nutrition workshop + instructions for presentations (for BIO2030 only)

MP

Semester break Sept 29 – Oct 3

10

Nutrition, phenotypic plasticity & food security

Presentations (BIO2030)

Literature club (FSC5071)

MP, ME, KM

11

Sustainable food production

Sustainability workshop

KM

12

Environmental ethics

Workshop, Test 2

KM