| August |
26 |
Course Goals and Expections |
Vassie Ware, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
28 |
Ethical Considerations in Biosciences |
Selected faculty |
PDF |
| |
30 |
Introduction to Cell Biology and Mechanisms of Gene Expression |
Vassie Ware, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| September |
2 |
LABOR DAY - NO CLASS |
| |
4 |
Cell Biology of Cancer |
Lynne Cassimeris, Ph.D. |
PDF
Movie 1
Movie 2 |
| |
6 |
Hallmarks of Cancer |
Michael Kuchka, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
9 |
Telomeres and Cancer |
David Zappulla, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
11 |
Oncogenes and Cancer |
Linda Lowe-Krentz, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
13 |
Molecular-based Cancer Therapeutics |
Damien Thévenin, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
16 |
Information Processing in the Nervous System |
R. Michael Burger, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
18 |
Advances in Neurological Medicine |
R. Michael Burger, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
20 |
Neuroscience Ethics |
Ann Fink, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
23 |
EXAM 1 |
| |
25 |
Nervous System Development |
Michael Layden, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
27 |
Stress-related Disorders and Drug Development |
Neal Simon, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
30 |
Drugs and Behavior |
Ryan Wynne, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| October |
2 |
Neurodegenerative Diseases |
Daniel Babcock, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
4 |
Convergence in Biomedical Sciences in the 21st Century |
Stephen Wong, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
7 |
Neurotoxicity |
Katie Hoffman, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
9 |
Genes and the Brain |
Julie Miwa, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
11 |
The Wonderful World of Mycobacteriophages: Discovery, dynamics, collusion, and therapy |
Graham Hatfull, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
14 |
PACING BREAK - NO CLASS |
| |
16 |
Antibiotics and Resistant Bacteria |
Vassie Ware, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
18 |
EXAM 2 |
| |
21 |
Waterborne Pathogens |
Kristen Jellison, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
23 |
Viral Pathogens |
Robert Buckheit, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
25 |
Emerging Diseases: An Evolutionary Perspective |
Amber Rice, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
28 |
Engineered Microdevices for HIV and Sickle Cell Diagnostics |
Xuanhong Cheng, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
30 |
Bacteria: Friend or Foe? |
Marcos Pires, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| November |
1 |
The Science and Fiction of Antibiotic Apocalypse: Outbreak Narratives and Military Metaphors |
Lorenzo Servitje, Ph.D.
|
PDF |
| |
4 |
Model Organisms in Biological Research |
Michael Layden, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
6 |
Inflammation and the Immune Response |
Joshua Slee, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
8 |
Cardiovascular Disease |
Linda Lowe-Krentz, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
11 |
EXAM 3 |
| |
13 |
Introduction to Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine |
Lesley Chow, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
15 |
Mind, Brain, Immunity |
Ann Fink, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
18 |
Personal Genomics |
Wynn Meyer, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
20 |
Epigenetis in Health and Disease |
Santiago Herrera, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
22 |
Bioinformatics: Genes and Genomes |
Daniel Lopresti, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
25 |
CRISPR and Genome Editing |
Michael Kuchka, Ph.D. |
PDF |
| |
27 |
THANKSGIVING BREAK - NO CLASS |
| |
29 |
THANKSGIVING BREAK - NO CLASS |
| December |
2 |
Canceled |
|
|
| |
4 |
CRISPR and Genome Editing |
Dena Davis, J.D., Ph.D. |
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| |
6 |
An Ode to a Stem Cell |
Vassie Ware, Ph.D. |
PDF |
