Related courses are listed under department headings. This course addresses selected topics involving the structure and function of eukaryotic membrane compartments. Primary source materials are emphasized. Vertel, Keller and Faculty. This course focuses on selected topics concerning the structure and functions of molecules and organelles within the cytoplasm and extracellular matrices.
Emphasis is placed on the use of primary source materials.
Offered in alternate years with other Advanced Cell Biology courses. Dr. Oblinger, Keller and Faculty. This interdisciplinary course will deal with selected topics of neurobiology that are of current and fundamental interest. It is presented by faculty of the Department of Neuroscience and the Departments of Biological Chemistry, Cell Biology and Anatomy, Pharmacology and Molecular Biology, and Physiology and Biophysics. The topics covered in the first part include electrogenic properties of excitable membranes, axoplasmic transport, synaptic transmission and its modulation, neurotransmitter receptors, neuropeptides, neuroendocrine systems, and supporting non-neuronal cells and their products.