| Date |
Title |
Description |
| Lecture 1 (August 31, 2011; Week 1) |
Course overview; universal properties of cells |
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| Lecture 2 (September 01, 2011; Week 1) |
Structural and functional organization of eukaryotic cells |
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| Lecture 3 (September 06, 2011; Week 2) |
Basics of evolution theory; overview of model organisms; basics of MATLAB |
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| Lecture 4 (September 08, 2011; Week 2) |
Structure and dynamics of cellular molecules(I) |
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| Lecture 5 (September 13, 2011; Week 3) |
Structure and dynamics of cellular molecules; Basics of cell biology literature reading (II) |
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| Lecture 6 (September 15, 2011; Week 3) |
Basics of cell biology literature reading; Methods in cell biology (I): imaging |
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| Lecture 7 (September 20, 2011; Week 4) |
Basics of the diffusion theory (I) |
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| Lecture 8 (September 22, 2011; Week 4) |
Basics of the diffusion theory; The Cytoskeleton (I) |
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| Lecture 9 (September 27,2011; Week 5) |
The Cytoskeleton (I) (II) |
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| Lecture 10 (September 29, 2011; Week 5) |
The Cytoskeleton (II) (III) |
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| Lecture 11 (October 04, 2011; Week 6) |
Review: Systems Biology; The Cytoskeleton (III) Molecular Motors |
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| Lecture 12 (October 06, 2011; Week 6) |
The Cytoskeleton (III); Mechanical Properties of Cytoskeletal Polymers |
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| Lecture 13 (October 11, 2011; Week 7) |
Mechanical characterization of cytoskeletal polymers; Modeling biochemical reactions |
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| Lecture 14 (October 20, 2011; Week 8) |
Review: polymer mechanics; Modeling biochemical reactions |
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| Lecture 15 (October 27, 2011; Week 9) |
Chromosome organization & DNA packaging; preliminary |
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| Lecture 16 (November 01, 2011; Week 10) |
DNA packaging; Structure of cell nucleus; preliminary |
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| Lecture 17 (November 03, 2011; Week 10) |
Gene expression I: From DNA to RNA; preliminary |
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| Lecture 18 (November 15, 2011; Week 11) |
Gene expression II: From RNA to Protein; preliminary |
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| Lecture 19 (November 17, 2011; Week 11) |
Gene expression III: Protein degradation; Control of gene expression; Cell signaling I: Overview |
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| Lecture 20 (November 22, 2011; Week 12) |
Control of gene expression; Cell signaling I: Overview; preliminary |
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| Lecture 21 (November 29, 2011; Week 13) |
Cell signaling II; preliminary |
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| Lecture 22 (December 01, 2011; Week 14) |
Cell signaling III; Cell cycle I; preliminary |
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| Lecture 23 (December 08, 2011; Week 15) |
Cell cycle II; preliminary |
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| Lecture 24 (; Week 13) |
Cancer |
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| Lecture 25 (; Week 14) |
Literature review: quantitative analysis and modeling of gene expression and cell signaling
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| Lecture 26 (; Week 15) |
TBA |
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| Lecture 27 (, Week 15) |
TBA |
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