Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) jointly with al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) have released the first unique online course “Methods of molecular biology” in English for the international platform Coursera. It was included in the top 100 best courses of the platform, launched in 2021.
Molecular biology is one of the most interesting sciences, with new discoveries being made every day. The development of this field makes an invaluable contribution to the improvement of medicine, advanced technology, and even agriculture.
The course covers topics such as the interaction of regulatory and functional elements of molecular biological processes, the specificity of methods related to the study, regulation and application of proteins and nucleic acids, and much more.
“The Coursera platform is actively developing collaboration with universities,” notes Svetlana Kalmykova, director of the Open Education Center at SPbPU. – St. Petersburg Polytechnic has extensive experience in creating courses for this international resource, so we gladly responded to the offer of cooperation with Al-Farabi Kazakh National University. We are very glad that our course was appreciated by students and specialists in chemistry, ecology, mathematics, physics, and medicine from different countries of the world. The course reveals various aspects of molecular biology in an interesting and comprehensible way”.
Aizhan Zhusupova, representative of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, believes that one of the striking features of the course is that it is the first English-language course, which was originally conceived with subtitles in the Kazakh language. This displays its global meaning with a twist of national flavor.
