Specialized metabolism (SBL.00073) In this class, we will define and explore the concept of specialized metabolome. We will study how metabolites are created (biosynthetic pathways) and we will see how important these small molecules are for humans (health and nutrition). More broadly, we will see how a better comprehension of specialized metabolism can be of interest in the field of ecology (chemical ecology). Level: Bachelor Credits: 1.5 ECTS Frequency: annual. starting in Fall 2022 When: Thursdays, 08:15-10:00 Course coordinator: Pierre-Marie Allard (pierre-marie.allard@unifr.ch) Below you can find pdf files of the lecture slides and some additional materials for home study. Slide contents licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 - feel free to share and/or modify.

Each main course slides are followed by resumed slides which are reminded at the beginning of the following class (a week later). You will find editable material (.pptx, .key and .mol used for structures) altough not necessarily completely up to date, in the previous versions of this Zenodo repo. You will also find editable .key and .pptx slides in the zipped folder. Most of the chemical structures used in the slides were drawn using using MarvinSketch form Chemaxon (https://chemaxon.com/) they are zipped in SBL.00060_structures.zip