BIO405/505
ADVANCED CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY II
Spring 2009
Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday 9:00 to 10:50 in NSC 216
Credit: 4 hours
Faculty:
Dr. Ronald Berezney - Cooke 637 (Course Coordinator)
Dr. James O. Berry - Dorsheimer 107A
Dr. Mary Bisson - Hochstetter 623
Dr. Paul Cullen - Cooke 625
Textbook:
Most of the reading assignments during the course will be from review articles and research journal articles. The textbooks “Cell and Molecular Biology” by Karp and “Molecular Biology of the Cell” by Alberts et al. were used as the textbooks in the Fall semester Advanced Cell and Developmental Biology course (Bio 402/502) and are recommended as reference books for this course.
Grades:
Most of the reading assignments during the course will be from review articles and research journal articles. The textbooks “Cell and Molecular Biology” by Karp and “Molecular Biology of the Cell” by Alberts et al. were used as the textbooks in the Fall semester Advanced Cell and Developmental Biology course (Bio 402/502) and are recommended as reference books for this course.
Advanced Cell and
Developmental Biology
Course Outline
Section 1 (Dr. Cullen – 7 Lectures) 1/13 to 2/3 |
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| 1. | Functional Consequences of Protein Modification (1 lect) |
| 2. | Cell-Surface Adhesion and Variation (1 lect) |
| 3. | Signal Transduction Pathways (1 lect) |
| 4. | Regulated Protein Degradation and the Proteasome (1 lect) |
| 5. | Genetic and Protein Interaction Networks (1 lect) |
| 6. | Cell Polarity and Morphogenesis (1 lect) |
| 7. | Cell-Cycle Control (1 lect) |
Section 2 (Dr. Berry – 7 Lectures) 2/5 To 2/26 |
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| 1. | Plant/Pathogens Interactions (3 lectures) |
| 2. | RNAi (2 lectures) |
| 3. | microRNAs (2 lectures) |
Section 3 (Dr. Bisson – 7 Lectures) 3/3 To 3/31 |
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| 1. | Membrane Properties and Transport Phenomenom |
| 2. | Active and Passive Transport |
| 3. | Bioenergetics |
| 4. | Structure and Function of Transport Proteins |
Section 4 (Dr. Berezney – 7 Lectures) 4/2 To 4/23 |
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| Articles | |
| 1. | Nuclear Organization and Genomic Function; Nuclear Lamin Proteins (1 lecture) |
| 2. | Nuclear Import/Export (1 lecture) |
| 3. | DNA Replication/Transcription/RNA Splicing (1 lecture) |
| 4. | Nuclear Matrix Proteins and Nuclear Targeting (1/1/2 lecture) |
| 5. | Nuclear Matrix Proteins and Nuclear
Targeting (continued); The Nucleolus: rRNA Gene Organization and Function (1/2 lecture) |
| 6. | Dynamics of Genomic Organization & Function in Living Cells (2 lectures) Lecture 6 - Lecture 7 |
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