1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	20
Seminar	10
Practicum	20

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the basics of various "omics" used to decipher interaction between our genetic makeup and environmental factors, including nutrients, and to explain technology behind it. The course will also cover basic concepts of genetics and evolution as well as newer concepts involved in controlling our genetic makeup and health such as epigenome and microbiome. Nutrigenomics focuses on the effects of nutrients on the human genome, proteome, and metabolome. It is applying methods of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics to human nutrition in order to understand the relationship between nutrition, inheritance and health. Nutrigenomics has been defined as the application of
highthroughput genomic tools in nutrition research. The term high throughput tools in nutrigenomics refers to genetic tools that enable literally millions of genetic screening tests to be conducted at a single time. When such high throughput screening is applied in nutrition research, it allows the examination of how nutrients affect thousands of genes present in the human genome. Nutrigenomics involves the characterisation of gene products and the physiological function and interactions of these products. This includes how nutrients affect the activation of specific genes and how these proteins in turn affect the response to nutrients.