Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic discipline
BIO/06 (COMPARATIVE ANATOMY AND CYTOLOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY "LAZZARO SPALLANZANI"
Course
EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED BIOLOGY
Curriculum
Scienze biomediche molecolari
Period
2nd semester (01/03/2018 - 14/06/2018)
Lesson hours
48 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Knowledge of basic cell biology
Learning outcomes
The main objective of this course is to give students the knowledge of the cytological and molecular aspects that regulate cell activity during the several steps that lead to its differentiation from a stem status, and at the time of the establishment of a cell-to-cell relationship during tissue formation.
Course contents
The course will give the knowledge necessary to the understanding of the signalling pathways, genetic and epigenetic mechanisms (including those of environmental origin) that regulate the maintenance of an undifferentiated status, the processes of cell differentiation and the relationship among cells within examples of tissue contexts. These processes will be observed both in normal and pathological conditions or following experimental induction.
Teaching methods
Oral lessons with access to all the slides projected and to pdf files of papers on some of the specific subjectes discussed. Before each new lesson, the teacher will first summarise then check whether the previous topics have been well understood through an interactive discussion with the students.
Reccomended or required readings
Cell Biology, Edito da Thomas D. Pollard, William C. Earnshaw, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Graham Johnson. Elsevier, 2016.
Lodish et al. Biologia Molecolare della Cellula. Zanichelli Editore.
Alberts et al., Biologia Molecolare della Cellula. Zanichelli Editore.
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Further information
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