COURSE CATALOG

2021-2022 Spring Semester

Online

International College of UCAS

目录

COURSE CATALOG.. 1

2021-2022 Spring Semester 1

Online. 1

International College of UCAS. 1

General Introduction. 3

Plant Physiology and Ecology. 11

Nano-biology. 12

Molecular Entomology and Plant Pathology. 14

Biochemistry. 16

Conservation Biology. 18

Introduction to Epigenetics and RNA silencing. 26

Nanobiological Sensing and Detection. 30

Nanotechnology for Solar Energy Utilization Applications. 32

Nano Electronic Materials. 34

Plate Tectonics and Evolution of Tibetan Plateau. 35

Physical Geography. 39

Global Change Ecology. 42

Climate Change. 44

Chemical Reaction Engineering. 48

Energy Chemistry and Energy Chemical Industry. 51

Green Chemistry and Engineering. 52

Fluidization and Multiphase Flow.. 54

Applied Statistics. 55

Applications of Remote Sensing on Climate Change, Land Science and Severe Weather. 57

Expected level of proficiency from students entering the course: 60

Water Chemistry. 61

Fundamental for Internet of Things and Its Applications. 63

Biodiversity science. 66

Development Geography. 70

Integrative Systematic Biology. 74

General Introduction

This course selection system is for students registering courses online. Because the capacity of every course is limited and first come first select, this system will be opened during Jan. 10^th –Jan. 31^st, 2022 and the students from International College can register first. Please use the google chrome or 360 browsers. Do not choose two courses schedule overlap. 

Website: http://ic-course.ucas.ac.cn/

   Username: Your passport ID

   Original password: 123456

NOTE: The course selection system is just for collecting students’ information. It is just the first step. Only after confirming with the teaching assistant can the course be selected successfully.

The requirement of UCAS for Doctor Degree is to get at least 9 credits before graduation. 4 credits should be from Professional Degree Courses. But students from institutes need to check out the requirements of your own institutes. Each institute has different requirement of credits. Please contact the Educational Administration of your own institutes first.

The requirement of UCAS for Masters is to get at least 30 credits before graduation. At least 13 credits should be from Professional Degree Courses. Every master student needs to take at least 2 credits from optional courses.

The requirement of UCAS for MD-PhD students is to get at least 38 credits before graduation. 12 credits are from the Public Compulsory courses. At least 16 credits should be from Professional Degree Courses. Every student needs to take at least 2 credits from optional courses.

Courses are classified as degree courses and non-degree courses.  

5.1 Public compulsory courses (7 credits in total)—Degree Courses

(1) Elementary Chinese 1 (2 credits); 

(2) Elementary Chinese 2 (2 credits); 

(3) China Panorama (2 credits). 

(4) Academic Morality and Writing Norms (1 credits). 

These four Public compulsory courses are Degree Courses for all international students. However, we have a rule about Course Waiver. Students who can meet one of the conditions can apply for course waiver and will get 6 credits directly (except Academic Morality and Writing Norms).

A. Providing a certificate of HSK Level 3;

B. Got a bachelor’s degree or master’s degree which are taught in Chinese.

Students who apply for the course waiver need to contact Ms. Season (dingdanni@ucas.ac.cn) before the February 28th.

5.2 Professional courses—Degree Courses and Non-degree Courses

The professional courses can be classified as one of two types: Degree Courses and Non-degree Courses. This final decision of course classification for each student is left to the supervisor, as s/he is in the best position to assess the courses for the graduate programs. If students find the professional courses are totally not related to his/her major and will not help the research for PhD, then these courses can be seen as Non-degree Courses (Optional Courses). If the professional courses will help the research for PhD, then they should be Degree Courses (Compulsory Courses). This classification of one course will be shown on the course selection form and the final score sheet. All the students have two weeks to attend the professional classes and choose them.

5.3 Optional courses—Non-degree Courses

All the optional courses are non-degree courses.

Students should drop out of the university under one of the following circumstances:

1、Master candidates who fail two degree courses within one semester and still fail one after relearning the courses, or fail three degree courses during the school years.

2、PhD candidates who fail one degree course and still fail after relearning the course, or fail two courses during their school years.

The Public compulsory courses are all Degree courses.

Education Coordinator for Professional Courses:

12. Phone: 010-82680563, Ms. Sophie
13. E-mail: hutian@ucas.ac.cn

Education Coordinator for Public compulsory courses:

12. Phone: 010-82680986, Ms. Season
13. E-mail: dingdanni@ucas.ac.cn

2021－2022学年春季和夏季学期校历

Course title: 

Plant Physiology and Ecology

Instructor: 

Associate Prof. Laiye Qu

Course type: Lecture

Course Assessment:

None

Grading Policy:

Registration (17% of the final score)

one report (50% of the final score)

one quiz (33% of the final score)

Course Prerequisites:

None

Catalog Description:

This course will introduce the plant physiological mechanisms that underlie ecological observation under the changing environment. The course will mainly introduce some general knowledge of photosynthesis, plant water relations, mineral nutrients, growth and allocation, symbiosis associations, and plant-soil interaction. Some general research methods and some basic statistical analysis and statistical plotting also will be introduced.

Schedule of the course

Course title

Nano-biology

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Assoc. Prof. Chen Deliang & Prof. Zhang Zhuqing

Course type:

Lecture

Course Schedule:

See Schedule of the course

Course Assessment:

Each student is expected to give an oral presentation on a topic related to his/her own interest and to Nanobiology

Grading Policy:

30% assessment , 70% final exam (open book).

Course Prerequisites:

None.

Catalog Description:

Nanobiology is to understand the Biological Science in the nanometer scale. Targeting at graduate students in Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Engineering with interest in Biological Science, this course not only introduces the basic concepts, principles and techniques of Nanobiology, but also presents many of the lessons that may be learned from nature and how they are being applied to nanotechnology. Participants will be guided to discuss latest discoveries and hot topics, such as manipulating single molecules and protein design in related interdisciplinary fields. 

Schedule of the course

Textbook and any related course material

Bionanotechnology: lessons from nature; 1st edition

David S. Goodsell,

Wiley-Liss, Inc. 2004

References will be provided in class.

Course title

Molecular Entomology and Plant Pathology

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Prof. ZOU Zhen

Prof. LI Xiang-Dong

Prof. LIU Jun

Course type:

Lecture

Course Schedule:

3hrs/week by instructor.

Tuesday afternoons, from 13:30-16:20.

Course Assessment:

Quiz, exams, and home work

Grading Policy:

Final scores will be determined by 33.3%(LI),33.4%(ZOU), and 33.3%(LIU).

Course Prerequisites:

Without

Catalog Description:

This course will cover the basis of modern agriculture biotechnology, molecular entomology and plant pathology. In the first part, we will explain the importance of insect science and its impact on agriculture, forest, and human health. We will also discuss several important aspects of molecular entomology such as systematics, metabolism, endocrinology, reproduction, locomotors system etc. The basic knowledge of insect physiology, molecular biology, and biochemistry, which were used to study entomology, will be provided during the class. The second part of the course will give students the general view of the history and development of plant pathology. Particularly, the concepts of plant innate immunity and plant epidemiology will be introduced and emphasized, including PAMPs triggered immunity, effector triggered immunity and basal defense of plants. In addition, plant pathogen isolation and identification and plant protection will be discussed in the course. 

Schedule of the course

Textbook and any related course material:

Marc J. Klowden (2007) Physiological Systems in Insects. 2^nd Ed. Elsevier Inc. (One annotated version permitted to publish in PRC)

George N. Agrios (2005) Plant Pathology, Fifth Edition Acadmeic Press, London, UK.

Reg Chapman (1997) The Insects Structure and Function 4^th Ed. University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Lawrence I. Gilbert (2012) Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Acadmeic Press, London, UK.

Course title

Biochemistry 

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Prof. ZHONG Liangwei and Professor ZHANG zhuqing

Course type:

Lectures and project works

Course Assessment:

A written final examination and an oral presentation of a project work.

Grading Policy:

An open written final examination (60%), an oral presentation of a project work (30%) and attendance (10%).

Course Prerequisites:

A knowledge on organic chemistry.

Catalog Description:

Upon completion of the course, the students should: (1) be familiar with the basic properties and functions of amino acids and proteins, as well as the principle for protein separation, purification, identification; (2) know how to analyze enzyme activity, enzyme kinetics and protein-protein interaction; (3) understand protein synthesis, targeting and modifications; (4) understand the association of abnormal glucose, lipid and amino acid metabolism with diseases; (5) be able to explain connections among carbohydrate metabolism, lipid metabolism and amino acid metabolism; (6) be able to evaluate biochemical literatures and give an oral presentation.

Content

The course is divided into the following parts:

Introduction to Biochemistry (Professor ZHONG liangwei)  

Section A – Amino acids and proteins (Professor ZHONG liangwei)  

A1. Amino acids and proteins  

A2. Structures and functions of proteins 

A3. Purification of proteins  

Section B – Enzymes (Professor ZHONG Liangwei)  

B1. Properties of enzymes

B2. Factors affecting enzyme activity

B3. Enzyme kinetics and inhibition

Section C – Protein synthesis, targeting, modifications and folding (Professor ZHONG Liangwei and Associate Professor ZHANG zhuqing) 

   C1. Protein synthesis

   C2. Protein targeting

   C3. Protein modifications 

C4. Protein folding and protein structure prediction (Associate Professor ZHANG zhuqing) 

    C5. Protein design and structure-based drug design (Associate Professor ZHANG zhuqing)

Section D – Carbohydrate metabolism (Professor ZHONG Liangwei)  

 D1. Basic properties of carbohydrates

 D2. Metabolic pathways

 D3. Digestion and absorption 

 D4. High glucose and oxidative stress

Section E – Lipid metabolism (Professor ZHONG Liangwei)  

E1. Structure and roles of fatty acids

E2. Fatty acid breakdown and synthesis

E3. Cholesterol metabolism 

E4. Lipoproteins

Section F – Nitrogen metabolism (Professor ZHONG Liangwei)  

F1. Nitrogen fixation and assimilation

F2. Amino acid metabolism

F3. Urea cycle

Section G — Electron Transport and Oxidative Phosphorylation (Professor ZHONG Liangwei)

G1. The electron transport chains 

G2. Oxidative phosphorylation.

Teaching methods

• The teaching includes lectures and project works. 
• Project works encourage intensive reading of literatures, giving an oral presentation.

Suggested Textbook, References, and Link

• Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry, fourth edition.
• Oxidative stress, inflammation and carcinogenesis are controlled through the pentose phosphate pathway by transaldolase, Trends Mol Med 17 (2011) 395-403.
• Regulation of cellular metabolism by protein lysine acetylation, Science 327 (2010) 1000-1004.
• Thioredoxin 1 Is Inactivated Due to Oxidation Induced by Peroxiredoxin under Oxidative Stress and Reactivated by the Glutaredoxin System, J Biol Chem. 288 (2013) 32241-32247.
• Entrez Medline: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ 

Course title

Conservation Biology

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Prof. JIANG Zhigang and Associate Professor LIU Xuecong

Course type:

Lecture, classroom exercise, student presentations

Course Schedule:

4 hrs/week：3 hr. lecture by instructors, one hr. Offline Reading Course. “Inverted Classroom”: Student presentation session will be held after the main course presentations.  

19:00-21:50. Wednesday, offline reading section 1 hr, (Starts form the 2nd March, 2022).

Virtue Classroom：2022/03/02-2022/06/29 19:00-21:50(GMT+08:00) 

Conservation Biology 2022 

https://meeting.tencent.com/dm/BEIEVZTDNbgg 

Tencent Meeting Room #：879-4732-7219

Course Assessment:

Homework: 3 assignments

Grading Policy:

40% reading course, 60% final exam + class attendance.

Course Prerequisites:

University level education in Biology, Biological Technology or applied biology sciences like Agricultural Science, Forestry Science, Environmental Science, Aquatic and Oceanic Sciences, Medical and Veterinary Science as well as in University level education in Education Science and Management Science.

Catalog Description:

Conservation Biology is a science of protecting biodiversity, preventing human caused species extinctions and maintaining sustainable development of human society. Conservation Biology was established in mid-1990s in the United States of America, and it has fully grown into a main stream science since its’ born. In this course, the professor will start with the lecture, The Pandora’s Box: Zoonosis and Conservation, to illustrate the emerging and reemerging of pandemic disease, particularly zoonosis- the wild animal human share disease and its impacts on human society, taking the outbreak of COVID-19 pneumonia as an example to shed lights on the new challenge in Conservation Biology. Then the instructor will give a briefly review of human civilization, followed by introducing the new concepts such as public goods, consumerism, and consumer behavior in modern society, and the professor will emphasize the needs of rethinking about the doctrines in the master piece of philosophy, Tao Te Ching, and social norms. Then the professor will talk about the history, scope and missions as well as theoretic frames and practice measures of Conservation Biology. In the following lectures, the professor will present the principles, methods and characteristics of Conservation Biology, which now is transforming into a new science—Conservation Sciences. Dr. Liu will give an introduction to experimental design and data analyses in conservation with computer practice in the classroom. Species diversity is the core of biodiversity. The professor will introduce the concept of species in evolution, the famous question in science: “How many species are there on Earth?”, plus the Tree of Life, then the professor will elaborate the speciation and extinction of species and the last effort of reviving an extinct species—the de-extinction protocol. 

Global Change is important issue and it is also a disputing issue. The professor will trace the issue and talk about its impacts on conservation with examples form the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and the arctic. Plausible mitigation measures of the impacts of global change will be given. The professor will outline the mega biodiversity countries, biodiversity hot spots, global vs. China’s biomes. The professor will also introduce the diverse landscapes, the sharply contrasting climate types, different habitats and rich fauna and flora in the country. Dr. Liu will talk about the conservation of primates with stories of social behavior of the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey. The professor will talk about the threatened wild species and degraded natural ecosystems in the country due to intensified human activities, land-cover change, environmental pollution, growing of human population plus the influence of global change. The professor will talk the legend of giant panda as an example of flagship species and talk about the down-listing of giant panda in China’s Red List of Biodiversity in 2016, at same time introduce the IUCN Red List Criteria for Endangered Species and China’s Red List of Vertebrate, with exercise in assessing species using the IUCN Red List Criteria for Endangered Species. The professor will elaborate the biodiversity relevant international treaties like Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which provide the international law environment for conservation and the country ‘s endeavor in implementation its commitments. Besides to conduct basic research in classifying, inventorying and monitoring biodiversity, the scientists in country also carried out conservation researches to back up the commitments of the government to implementation of CBD and CITES, such as rescuing endangered species, reforesting the mountains and deserts, as well as protecting habitat of wild species and maintaining ecosystem functioning and services. All these be covered in the course. Therefore, while reviewing the current development of Conservation Biology in the world, the professor will give case studies of China’s endemic species; represent biomes and conservation practice to enrich the contents of course. Small population is a real problem in conservation, with practice in computer simulation, the students will understand the genetic problems in small populations. In situ and ex situ conservation are major approaches in preserving biodiversity. The professor will explain why should we carry out ex situ conservation and how to carry out it, with examples of ex situ conservation from Saudi Arabia and from China. The professor will introduce the translocation of endangered species and reintroduction of locally extinct species. The professor will introduce the protected areas (PAs) such as, natural reserves, wildlife refuge, national parks, nature parks, World Natural Heritage Sites, as well as the “Green for Grain”, “Green for Grass” projects in China as examples of in situ conservation, and will review the “Half Earth” initiative and the development and analyze the achievements and shortfalls in management of PAs.  

According to the new requirement of the UCAS in 2020, the professors are required to add contents about the scientific reading to improve the reading comprehensive ability of the students of the course. Reading Skills for Students in Conservation Science will be added to the course in four lectures with three chapters in each lecture. 

"Inverted Classroom". The part of the student oral presentations in the course lectures serve as "Inverted Classroom". Such a practice is a rearrangement of lectures to student presentations, shifting the power of learning to students. Each student in the course will have time to focus more on proactive project-based learning, working together to address localization or globalization challenges and other real-world issues to understand conservation. The classroom is thus inverted that requires students to work independently before the student oral presentations, to access materials in library, to read enhanced e-books, to search for reference and to discuss with other students on the Internet. The professor and Teaching Assistant will guide the student presentation and will lead corresponding discussion in the inverted classroom. The professor and Teaching Assistant will communicate with everyone in the classroom through Internet. In the Inverted Classroom, students independently worked out plan for learning and presentation of knowledge, while The professor and Teaching Assistant will adopt teaching and collaboration methods to meet the needs of students and facilitate their personalized learning and presentation. The goal of student presentation in Inverted Classroom is to let students learn more real know-how from their thesis and future career through practice.

Schedule of the course

Contents of the course：

Lecture 1: The Pandora’s Box: Zoonosis and Conservation

1. The outbreak of COVID--19 in 2019
2. The diseases and zoonosis 
3. An example: Lyme disease (Video7:38)
4. The Black Death 
5. The remerging and newly emerging diseases
6. Who opens the Pandora Box?
7. Infectious disease and wildlife populations
8. MERS, SARS, COVID-19, lessons so far for conservation…

Lecture 2: History of Conservation

1. Human civilization
2. The biodiversity crisis
3. The nascent of Conservation Biology
4. Public goods, consumerism and consumer behavior 
5. Environment problems we confronted
6. Rethink about Tao Te Ching and Social Norms
7. The nascent of Conservation Biology

Lecture 3 Principles, Ideas and Methods in Conservation Science

1. Mega biodiversity countries
2. Biodiversity hot spots
3. Physical geography of China
4. Case study: Video BBC Wild China
5. Vegetation: global vs. China
6. Origin centers of crops in the world
7. Crops, fruits and garden plants native to the far east

Lecture 4 Introduction to Experimental Design and Data Analyses in Conservation

1. Experimental design in Conservation
2. Descriptive statistics
3. Hypothesis testing
4. Introduction to SPSS
5. A classroom practice

Lecture 5 Speciation, Extinction and De-Extinction

1. Evolution of species concept
2. The Tree of Life
3. How many species are there on the Earth?
4. Speciation
5. Extinction of species

1. The De-Extinction

Lecture 6 Global Change and its Impacts On Conservation

1. Global change: what is happening now?
2. The evidence and arguments
3. Why the dispute？
4. Impacts of global change on conservation

Lecture 7 Diversity in Agriculture and Biodiversity in China

1. Mega biodiversity countries
2. Biodiversity hot spots
3. Physical geography of China
4. Video BBC Wild China
5. Vegetation: global vs. China
6. Origin centers of crops in the world
7. Crop and domestic animal diversity in agriculture 
8. Crops, fruits and garden plants native to the far east

Lecture 8: The Small Population Problem in Conservation

1. The small population problem
2. The Extinction Vortex
3. The inbreeding 
4. The genetic draft
5. The genetic purge 
6. The classroom practice Web PopGen^® simulation 

Lecture 9: Criteria of Endangered Species and IUCN Red lists

1. Criteria of endangered species
2. The Down-listing of giant panda in 2016
3. The legend of giant panda
4. IUCN Red List for Endangered Species
5. China’s Red List for Vertebrates

Lecture 10: Status, Behavior and Conservation of Primates

1. Primates of the world
2. Primate societies
3. Conservation status of primates in China
4. Ecology of endangered golden snub-nosed monkeys
5. Vocal behavior of golden snub-nosed monkeys

Lecture 11: Ex-situ Conservation

1. Why ex situ conservation?
2. How to carry out ex situ conservation?
3. Case study: Wildlife Conservation Center in Saudi Arabic
4. Reintroduction of Saiga in China
5. Behavioral problems in captive bred animals
6. A synthesis: Captive Breeding of Giant Panda
7. Ex situ conservation of plants: Germplasm resource repository and botanical gardens
8. Artificial propagation of Drebremium

Lecture 12: Protected Areas

1. The definition of Protected Areas (PAs) by IUCN
2. IUCN categories of PAs
3. The growth of PAs in the world and in China
4. The challenges in the PAs management
5. The conservation migratory species: the example of Mongolian gazelle
6. The Half-Earth Initiative--How much land we can set aside?

Lecture 13: Student presentation I 

Lecture 14: Student presentation II

The final mark of the student will be 20% attendance and 40% the presentation of the reading exercise + 40% final exam. The final exam will be an open-class exam.

Offline Reading Skills for Students in Conservation Science

The outlines 

The plan to give the Reading Skills for Students in Conservation Science in the course of Conservation Biology is introduced below. Each part of the following 8 parts will be given at the fourth lecture hour of each lecture. Students will give their presentation about literature reading choosing one of the three topics listed below. The presentations of students will be arranged into 2 lecture sections, we have slots for all students registered so far, if more students take the course, we will extend the student presentation section. 

Part I     General introduction

I.I       Why?

• Knowledge building/Learning
• Master the skill of critical reading
• The needs of self-taught

I.II      How?

• Comprehensive reading
• Intensive reading
• Critical reading

I.III    What?

• Scientific literature 
• Science media
• Popular science

Part II    Reading through the Internet

• The Knowledge Explosion 
• The Internet Revolution 
• A convenient, efficient and prevalent way
• Knowledge mining from the internet  

Part III   Comprehensive reading

• For academic learning
• For general interests
• For leisure (time-killing) 

Part IV  Fast reading

• How get the main ideas of what you read?
• The abstracts and summaries
• The tables and figures
• The topic sentences
• Building your vocabulary  

Part V    Intensive reading

• Learning the methodology
• Master the new advances
• Discover new direction for study

Part VI  Critical reading 

• Learn to ask questions
• Learn to be critic 
• Find out the key points from a paper or a book

Part VII Learn to review or to comment on manuscripts 

• What is the aim of the manuscript?
• Is the problem worth of study?
• What is the question/working hypothesis/the goal in the study? 
• How did the authors test the hypothesis or achieve the goal stated? 
• What did the authors find?
• Did author(s) discuss the implication and problems associated with the study? 
• Is the author(s) read the current relevant literature for the study?

Part VIII Taking notes and managing reference 

• Download the reference
• Keeping taking notes
• Using a reference management tool  

Part IX Summarizing and Reviewing

• Be prepared for your thesis/dissertation
• A literature review for your study topic
• The general review chapter(s) for your thesis/dissertation

Part X Learning writing from reading

• A good scientist is also a good writer
• Learn writing from reading
• Take a writing course, starting from writing a sentence …

Part XI Preparing for your future 

• What career in conservation?
• What are your interests?
• Where are the information?
• Be prepared, always 

Part XII Presentation of what you read

• Writing an outline
• Design your PPT
• Practice 
• Be concise, confident, clear, remember the time limit is a key issue

The outlines for the presentations by student

Choosing one of the following topics, each student should give a 15-min presentation with his/her own PPTs, each give a 12-min talk + 3-min questions and comments by professors and his/her peer.

Tentative topics for student presentations:  

a)    My future study area

b)    A hot domain/A new advance in science

c)    I discovered something worth of further study in conservation/science

The key points in your presentation:

For Topic a) My future study area, you should talk about the following points:   

• The back ground of the literature searching (What are current status of the field and how do you find the reference to the recent development?)
• The maintain discovery in the field (Talking about key literature in the field)
• The weakness in methodology, the knowledge gap in the field. or your plan to work on the issue in foreseeable future 

 For Topic b) A hot domain/A new advance in science, you should talk about the following points: 

• The back ground of the literature searching (How do you find the topic?)
• The maintain discovery in the field (Talking about key literature in the field)
• The weakness in methodology, the knowledge gap in the field. or your comment of the development in the field.

For Topic c) I discovered something worth of further study in conservation/science, you should talk about the following points:

• How did you find the issue in reading?)
• The general introduction to the discovery
• Why do you think it is a hot topic? What are the likely impact on society or scientific work in foreseeable future?

Textbook and any related course material:

Gaston, K. J. 1996. Biodiversity: A Biology of Numbers and Differences. Oxford: Blackwell Science.

Hannah L.2012. Saving a Million Species: Extinction Risk from Climate Change. Washington, DC: Island Press.

Jeon Yonung-jae. 2012. Journey to the Ecosystem of the DMZ and CCL. Seoul: Korea National Park Serves, Ministry of Environment.

Jiang, Z. 2016. The deterministic effect of the CITES and nominal impacts of social norms on global wildlife trade. RE: “Collective Action: Social norms as solutions” Science 354:42-43. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6308/42.e-letters.

Jiang, Z. 2016. The responsibility and readiness of young conservation scientists. E-letter to P. Gluckman. The science–policy interface. Science 353: 969. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6303/969.e-letters

Jiang Z. 2002. Key Topics in Biodiversity and its Conservation, an English training book for UNDP/UNEP/GEF Biodiversity Support Program for the Northwest and East Central Asia Region.

McCord E L. 2012. The Value of Species. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Novacek, M.J. 2001. The Biodiversity Crisis. New York: The New Press.

Primack, R. B. 2010. Essentials of Conservation Biology. 5^th ed. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Sunderland, USA.

Stearns, BP and Stearns SN. 1999. Watch, from the Edge of Extinction. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Wilson, E. O. 2001. The Diversity of Life. London: Penguin Books. [Twice winner of Pulitzer Price]

Video BBC Wild China

Expected level of proficiency from students entering the course:

University level education in Biology, Biological Technology or applied biology sciences like Agricultural Science, Forestry Science, Environmental Science, Aquatic and Oceanic Sciences, Medical and Vet Science as well as in University level education in Education Science and Management Science 

Course title

Introduction to Epigenetics and RNA silencing 

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Prof. Xiaoming Zhang 010-64807550   zhangxm@ioz.ac.cn

Prof. Xianhui Wang  010-64807220    wangxh@ioz.ac.cn

Prof. Weiqiang Qian (Peking University)010-62768230   wqqian@pku.edu.cn

Teaching assistant:

Dr. Qi Li 010-64807550 liqi@ioz.ac.cn

Course type:

Lecture

Course Assessment:

mini-tests in each section

Grading Policy:

mini-tests scores

Course Prerequisites:

Without

Catalog Description:

Epigenetics and RNA silencing are two of the hottest topics in the past two decades. Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression that do not change DNA sequence. RNA silencing is a general regulation mechanism in eukaryotes that regulates gene expression by 20-30 nt sRNAs in transcription or post-transcription levels. In this Epigenetics, we will introduce how DNA methylation, histone modification, chromatin remodeling, long non-coding RNAs and RNA modification regulate gene expression in eukaryotes. In the second part, we will study RNA silencing on sRNA generation, amplification, loading, action, turnover, and function. The most popular technologies used in Epigenetic studies and non-coding RNAs will also be discussed.

This course not only will provide students the basic concepts of RNA silencing and Epigenetics, but also will provide student the requisite methods in these two fields. At the same time, we will share the students a story in RNA silencing or Epigenetic fields in each class. These stories include but not limit to: Transgenic technology, Cross-kingdom RNA silencing, anti-viral function of RNA silencing, X-inactivation, Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, Imprinting, disease, Honey bee epigenome, and flowing. After the course, the students should understand the biogenesis and function of small RNAs, lncRNAs, the difference between genetic and epigenetic regulation and how to study projects relate to Epigenetics and RNA silencing.

Schedule of the course

Textbook and any related course material:

C. David Allis, Marie-Laure Caparros, Thomas Jenuwein, Danny Reinberg (2015) Epigenetics，2^nd Ed, CSHL press.

Narendra Tuteja, Sarvajeet Singh Gill (2013) Plant Acclimation to Environmental Stress, Springer.

Kenneth Alan Howard (2013) RNA Interference from Biology to Therapeutics (Advances in Delivery Science and Technology), Springer.

Tamas Dalmay (2017), Plant Gene Silencing: Mechanisms and Applications, CABI press. 

Course title

Nanobiological Sensing and Detection 

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Prof. Lele Li

Course type:

Lecture

Course Assessment:

Homework: 7 assignments

Grading Policy:

Assignments 50%, Final 30%, Attendance 20%

Course Prerequisites:

College Chemistry, College Materials, English.

Catalog Description:

Biosensing and imaging using nanomaterials and nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionize scientific research and medical diagnostics. This course will focus on the principles, construction, and application of Nano-biosensing and imaging systems, and particularly the impact of nanotechnology on the development of biosensors. The course will be started with an introduction of the solid background on the nano-biological sensors, bioimaging, nanomaterials and nanotechnology, biorecognition units, biomarkers, and disease diagnostics. Then, examples of biosensing and imaging systems created from various nanomaterials are introduced, including fluorescent/luminescent nanoparticles, magnetic nanoparticles, carbon nanomaterials, gold nanoparticles, porous materials, and DNA nanostructures, with a distinct emphasis on the need to tailor nanosensor designs to specific biotargets. The topic of cancer-specific nano-biosensors will also be addressed and discussed to provide deep insight into the recent advances of using nano-biosensors for disease diagnostics and therapy.

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Textbook and any related course material:

No textbook, and electronic course reading materials will be provided one week before each class.  
 

Course title

Nanotechnology for Solar Energy Utilization Applications

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Prof. HE Tao

Course type:

Lecture

Course Assessment:

Four assignments: Exercise & Presentation

Grading Policy:

Typically 40% presentation, 40% exercise, 20% final

Course Prerequisites:

Materials physics, materials chemistry, solid state physics, semiconductor physics, physical chemistry, general chemistry

Catalog Description:

Because of concerns regarding energy security, environmental crisis, and the rising costs of fossil-fuel-based energy, there has been significant, resurgent interest in utilization of solar energy recently due to its clean nature and abundance of the source. Unfortunately, the utilization efficiency is still pretty low, which dramatically limits the wide use of solar energy. Nanotechnology may afford a solution to this. Thus, the major goal of this course is to provide the students general concepts and state-of-the-art developments in the field of nanotechnology for solar energy utilization. The course begins with a brief introduction of fundamentals of nanotechnology and solar energy. Then photon (light) management is discussed in detail, followed by a thorough description of conversion of light into electric energy (photovoltaics) and chemical energy (artificial photosynthesis). Detailed discussion of environmental remedy is covered too. Other applications such as thermoelectricity and thermochemistry are presented in the final session.

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Textbook and related documents:

No specific textbooks, though the following ones are listed. More reading materials will be provided during the lecture.

Nanostructured and photoelectrochemical systems for solar photon conversion, Edited by Mary D. Archer and Arthur J. Nozik, Imperial College Press, London, 2009

Nanostructured materials for solar energy conversion, Edited by Tetsuo Soga, Elsevier Science, 2007

Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics, Edited by Loucas Tsakalakos, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2010

Course title

Nano Electronic Materials

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Prof. XIE Liming

Course type:

Lecture

Course Assessment:

Homework: 10 assignments

Grading Policy:

Typically 20% attendance, 20% in-class performance, 40% homework, 20% final.

Course Prerequisites:

Solid state physics, physical chemistry 

Catalog Description:

This course will first give a general review on nano electronic materials, including structure, synthesis and properties. And then introduce typical nano electronic materials in details. The typical nano electronic materials include quantum dots, nanowires, carbon nanotubes, graphene, two-dimensional materials beyond graphene. 

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Textbook and any related course materials:

1. Introduction to the Physics of Nanoelectronics, Edited by: S.G. Tan and M.B.A. Jalil, ISBN: 978-0-85709-511-4
2. Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics, Edited by: George W. Hanson, ISBN-10: 0131957082
3. Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics: Materials, Devices, Measurement Techniques, Edited by: W. R. Fahrner, ISBN 3-540-22452-1

Expected level of proficiency from students entering the course:

Mathematics: strong

Physics: strong

Chemistry: strong

Course title

Plate Tectonics and Evolution of Tibetan Plateau

Instructor(s):

Prof. Lin Ding et al.

Course type:

Lecture

Course type:

Lecture

Catalog Description:

Plate tectonics is an integrated scientific theory that describes how the large-scale geologic structures on Earth are created as a result of Earth’s plates movements. In plate tectonics, the lithosphere — Earth's strong, rigid outermost shell—is broken into many tectonic plates, which lie on top of the weaker, ductile asthenosphere. Due to the convection of the asthenosphere, the plates move relative to each other and interact along their boundaries, where they converge, diverge, or slip past one another. These interactions generate many phenomena, such as mountain building, large continents, wide and deep oceans, volcanoes and earthquakes. To begin our explanation of the key elements of plate tectonics theory, we will first learn about the physical and chemical structures of the earth, types of plate boundaries, subduction zones and other special locations on plates. We will see how continents break up, how they collide, what makes plates move, and their relationships with petrology, paleomagnetism and geodynamics.

We will then introduce the application of plate tectonics on Himalayan-Tibetan Orogen. The India-Eurasia collision is the most significant geological event throughout the Phanerozoic and eventually created the youngest and most spectacular Himalaya-Tibetan Orogen on Earth. During the continental collision, Indian continental lithosphere began to subduct beneath Eurasian continent and further induced large-scale deformation, magmatism and metamorphism. More importantly, the continental collision induced rapid uplift of the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau. The uplift of the large and high elevations (>5000m) of the Tibetan Plateau has not only affected regional geomorphology and geographical environments of Asia, but also impacted on regional or even global climate change. Therefore, the Himalayan-Tibetan orogen provides an ideal natural laboratory to investigate the mountain building process in general. It will cover the following topics:

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Course title

Physical Geography 

Instructor(s):

Prof. XiaoMin Fang et al.

Course type:

Lecture

Catalog Description:

Physical Geography 2022 Spring semester is designed as an introduction course for research graduate students majored in the earth and environmental sciences. As a foundation in the study of geography, this course introduces the physical elements of the earth and the environment in which people live. The focus is on natural processes that create physical diversity on the earth, covering topics like weather and climate, vegetation and soils, landforms, ecosystems, their distribution and significance. This course is designed in an interactive way, combining basic theories and current research progress in several key fields. It enables the students to develop a broad understanding of geographic processes, and how human activity affects physical geography, especially in the Tibetan Plateau. The course is structured as a series of lectures with the topics listed as following: 

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Course title

Global Change Ecology

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Prof. WANG Tao et al.

Course type:

Lecture

Grading Policy:

The grading for this course will be based on:

- Participation (30% of grade)

- Report (70% of grade)

*Participation in lectures, discussions, and other activities is an essential part of the instructional process. Students are expected to attend class regularly. Those who are compelled to miss class should inform the instructor of the reasons for absences. Unexcused late assignments will have at a minimum 5 points deducted. To avoid this penalty you must contact the instructor prior to the due date. Each student should be expected to give a report at the end of the course. 

Course Prerequisites:

This course does not have any pre-requisites.

Catalog Description:

This course is designed as an introductory course in ecology for graduate students majored in Earth Sciences. The class is intended to provide an introduction to main ecological processes, with particular attention to the responses of these processes to global change at local, regional, and global scales. It will also introduce the basic principles of local field measurement techniques, remote sensing, and land surface modeling in relation to carbon and nitrogen cycles. The course is structured as a series of lectures in which individual research cases are discussed with faculty tutors. It will cover the following topics:

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Course title

Climate Change

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Prof. Dr.MA Yaoming

Course type:

Lecture

Catalog Description: 

Climate Change 2022 spring semester is designed as an introductory course plus our research aspect in ITPCAS (Institute of Tibetan Plateau, Chinese Academy of Sciences) in the Climate Change for graduate students majored in Earth Sciences. This class is a synthesis of current knowledge of the climate system and past and present climates. It provides solid background information and includes critical assessments of issues that remain incompletely understood. There, it is up to the students to logically evaluate climate change issues presented daily by the media. This class will introduce related reference for climate researchers and students, especially for issues of climate change in Earth system. The class presents the basics surrounding climate change in a simple way while pointing out the complexity of climate data collection, processing, and interpretation. Our research aspect in ITPCAS will introduce climate change related topics, for example, land surface heat flux retrieves from in-situ data, satellite remote sensing data and numerical model; land surface model development and data assimilation; black carbon in the mountain glacier area; hydrological model and so on. All of these topics will enhance our theoretical questions about climate change, especially in the Tibetan Plateau.

The course is structured as a series of lectures and mini-seminars in which individual research cases are discussed with faculty tutors. It will cover the following topics:

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Course title

Chemical Reaction Engineering

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Prof. Li Chunshan, Prof. Xu Baohua, Associate Prof. Li Minjie

Course type:

Lecture

Course Schedule:

4 hrs/week: 3 hrs. lecture by Instructors, 1 hr. Offline Reading Course.

Course Assessment:

Homework: 6 assignments, will be given after each class, extensive literature reading is expected. 

Grading Policy:

Assignments 30%, Final 70%

Course Prerequisites:

College Chemistry, College Mathematics, English.

Catalog Description:

The course is mainly focusing on the essentials of kinetics, catalysis and chemical reactor engineering. The main issue of chemical reaction engineering is to analyze the physical chemistry of sub-processes in a reactor by a mathematical model method. Each process is expressed as an appropriate mathematical expression, thereby providing the analytical solution or numerical solution. Various typical reaction types and the proper reactor design theory will be introduced.

Schedule of the course 20´3

Textbook and any related course material:

1.    Reaction Engineering, 李绍芬，2019.01，化学工业出版社

2.    Multi-Phase Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology，金涌，2006.05，清华大学出版社

3.    Chemical Reaction Engineering, Octave Levenspiel, 1998.08, Wiley.

4.    Concepts of Modern Catalysis and Kinetics, Ib Chorkendorff, Hans Niemantsverdriet, 2003.10, Wiley.

5.    Fundamentals of chemical reaction engineering, Mark Davis and Robert Davis, 2003, McGraw-Hill (MHP)

Course title

Energy Chemistry and Energy Chemical Industry

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Prof. Li, Songgeng, Associate prof, Fan, Chuigang 

Course type:

Lecture

Course Assessment:

Homework: 10 assignments

Grading Policy:

Assignments 40%, Final 40%, Attendance 20%

Course Prerequisites:

Familiar with the basic knowledge of Chemistry, Thermodynamics, and Flow and Transport Process. 

Catalog Description:

This course covers the fundamentals of energy conversion in thermomechanical, thermochemical, electrochemical, and photoelectric processes with emphasis on efficiency, environmental impact and performance. The topics include coal utilization, petro chemistry, bio-energy, fuel cell, battery and some new energy resources like hydrogen, solar, etc. Systems utilizing fossil fuels, renewable resources and hydrogen over a range of sizes and scales are discussed. Different forms of energy storage and transmission are also involved in this course. It is expected that after taking this course, students will be familiar with basic chemistry principles on energy processing, and most common energy processing technologies together with some environmental issues related. 

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Textbook and any related course material:

Ripudaman Malhotra, Fossil Energy, Springer, 2013,

Handbook of Alternative Fuel Technologies, CRC Taylor & Francis, 2015

Giafranco Pistoia, Battery Operated Devices and Systems，Elsevier, 2009
 

Course title

Green Chemistry and Engineering

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Prof. Zhang, Guangjin, 

Course type:

Lecture

Course Assessment:

Homework: 14 assignments, presentations

Grading Policy:

Assignments literature report 40%, Final Report 40%, Attendance 20%

Course Prerequisites:

Familiar with the basic knowledge of Chemistry, Thermodynamics. 

Catalog Description:

The purpose of this course includes: Increase the interest to Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, extend scope of knowledge, make the idea of “Green” into mind. Knowing the basic knowledge of green chemistry and engineering, the definition, developments, theory and some examples; Getting the ideas on how to develop a green process and can applied the learned knowledge in your further research works. The topics include basic principles of green chemistry, task of green chemistry, Catalysis and Green Chemistry. Biocatalysis, Photo/electrical Catalysis, Solid catalyst, Acid and base, Ionic liquid and other non-organic solvents, Chemical separation, Alternate Energy sources, New synthetic route, Functional materials,  Design of safe and harmless chemicals. 

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Textbook and any related course material:

Mukesh Doble, Green Chemistry and Processes,elsevier, 2009,

Albert Matlack, Introduction to Green Chemistry, CRC Press, 2012

Course title

Fluidization and Multiphase Flow

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Prof. WANG Wei

Course type:

Lecture

Course Assessment:

Homework: 2 home exercises are to be solved individually. 2 course assignments are to be solved in groups of 2-3 students and extensive literature reading is expected. 

Grading Policy:

Assignments 40%, Final 40%, Attendance 20%

Course Prerequisites:

Principle of Chemical Engineering

Catalog Description:

This course will provide comprehensive knowledge of fluidization and multiphase flow with fundamentals and applications related to chemical engineering and energy conversion. A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: 

1. Understand the flow regime of gas-solid flow and state of the art of research and application
2. Manage basic calculations and solve practical problems related to fluidization
3. Overview the modeling approached
4. Design a fluidized bed reactor with preliminary requirement

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Textbook and any related course material:

The textbook mainly refers to:

Kunii, D., Levenspiel, O. Fluidization Engineering. Butterworth-Heinemann.1991.

Electronic course reading materials will be provided before each class. The following references are recommended, including:

Grace, J. et al. Fluidized Beds. Multiphase Flow Handbook. Taylor & Francis. 2006.

Gidaspow, D. Multiphase Flow and Fluidization, Academic Press, 1994.
 

Course title

Applied Statistics

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Assoc. Prof. Qian WANG Email: wangqian@ucas.ac.cn

Course type:

Lecture

Grading Policy:

Participation+in-class quiz (30%), Homework (40%), Project (30%)

Catalog Description:

This course is an introduction to applied statistics and data analysis. Topics are chosen from descriptive measures, sampling and sampling distribution, estimation and confidence interval, hypothesis test, linear regression, ANOVA, goodness-of-fit and contingency analysis. Data analysis is difficult without some computing tools and the course will introduce some statistical computing with Excel.

Schedule of the course

Textbook and any related course material:

1. Ajit C. Tamhane and Dorothy D. Dunlop. Statistics and Data Analysis: From Elementary to Intermediate. Prentice Hall, 2000. 
2. Pawel Lewicki and Thomas Hill. Statistics: Methods and Applications. Springer, 2006. 
3. Roxy Peck. Statistics: Learning from Data. Cengage Learning, 2017.

Course title

Applications of Remote Sensing on Climate Change, Land Science and Severe Weather

Instructor(s)-in-charge:

Prof. QI Youcun & Associate Prof. CAO Jie & Prof. DONG Jinwei 

Course type:

Lecture

Course Schedule:

8hrs/week by instructor. 

Course Assessment:

Homework: 4 assignments

Grading Policy:

Typically 20% Attendance, 40% homework, 20% Oral Presentation, 20% final.

Course Prerequisites:

Remote Sensing, Climate Change, Land Science

Catalog Description:

This course introduces the fundamentals, commonly used methods, and applications of remote sensing, and emphasizes the use of remote sensing data for studying climate change, land use change and  severe weather forecasting. Climate change and land use change are the most important components of global change studies. This course would provide a comprehensive examination of land use change in the context of global environmental change, together with a practical guide for interpreting satellite imagery in severe weather situations. We will first learn the basics of remote sensing and fundamentals essential for understanding severe weather following by the remote sensing data analyses methods. Then these knowledge and tools will be used to understand the climate and land use changes as well as to improve severe weather forecasting at regional, national, and global scales. We will better understand the global change issues by examining socioeconomic drivers and physical and biological impacts of land use change and climate change. 

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