Undergraduate HONOR Seminar 1 Credit, Fall 2008 (BIOL494)

This seminar has a number of major objectives: 1) to introduce you to lifelong task of keeping up with the new scientific information; 2) to teach you how to read and listen to the primary reports of scientific discoveries in a form of a Journal Club and how to properly critique the content of such reports; 3) to develop the skill of the separation of an objective scientific information reported in the paper or in the presentation from the scientific speculation (a hypotheses) that still warrant further research to be proven; 4) to chart future experimental plan according to given state of the knowledge in a certain field; 5) – Entirely novel objective ! to integrate you into Wikipedia community

SYLLABUS 494

ZIPPED (RAR) archive of the paper for presentations

WIKIPEDIA lecture

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BIOL695/BIOS704: Genes and Environment in human diseases.

This is a 1 credit seminar course aiming in understanding of interactions of genes and environmental factors in the pathogenesis of complex (multifactorial) human diseases. This class will meet five times during Fall semester of 2008.   As a part of this class students will do detailed, one-hour long presentations and written essay on related topic.

SYLLABUS 2008

ZIPPED (RAR) archive with all the papers for presentations

GENES and ENVIRONMENT lecture

Undergraduate GENE THERAPY 1 Credit, Summer2007 (BIOL417)

Gene Therapy course (1 credit) will cover general principles of modern therapeutic approaches to treat inherited human diseases and cancer. Topics discussed in course includes a review of basic mechanisms and approaches in gene therapy, compilations of current clinical trial efforts, methods of gene delivery, immune therapeutics, oncolytic virus therapeutics, antisense therapeutics as well as ethical considerations in all these novel methods of therapy.

Enterprise Hall 278

Wednesdays 3:40 pm - 6:50 pm (Session A) - May 23rd is the first class

SYLLABUS 417

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Graduate GENE THERAPY 1 Credit, Summer2007 (BIOL692)

Robinson Hall A101

Tuesdays 3:40 PM -6:50 PM (Session A) - May 22nd is the first class

SYLLABUS 692

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• Undergraduate Honor Seminar 1 Credit, Fall 2006
  
    Structure of the research paper
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  Doctor Born's lecture
  
• Biol/BIOS seminar in Molecular and Microbiology ENGINEERED ANTIBODIES: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION, 1 credit, SPRING 2007
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• Ancha's introductory lecture
  
• Biol 572 Human Genetics, 3 credits, FALL 2006
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• Biol 575 Cancer Genomics 3 Credits Spring 2007
  
  HUMAN TUMORS -- epidemiology, classification, conventional treatment. Clonal selection in human tumors. Metastasis as a product of cell evolution. Tumor suppressor genes and oncogenes. Cancer syndromes and other types of cancer predisposition.
  Instability of genome as a fundamental feature of a cancer cell. Types of mutations, LOH and LOI. Cancer- associated polymorhisms.
  How the new cancer related gene can be cloned and characterized. A review of the strategies in pre-genomic and post-genomic eras. Signaling pathways damaged or short-circuited in human tumors. RB genes network, cyclines, CDKs, CDKIs. Receptors and RTKs, SMADs, RAS-cascade, PTEN, NF1 etc. Extracellular matrix signaling, hypoxia, angiogenesis-related pathways and VHL. Differentiation-related pathways in leukemias and lymphomas. P53 as guardian of genome; BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. Genome instability diseases as precondition for cancer. HNPCC, AT, XP, Bloom, Fanconi, Werner syndromes and underlying genes. Programmed cell death. Experimental cancer therapies
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  Dr. Dan Cox guest lecture on stem cells in cancer
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• Biol 693/BIOS742 Biotechnology 3 Credits, Spring 2006
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• Biol 213 Cell structure and Function (undergrade) Spring 2006
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• Biol/BIOS seminar in Molecular and Microbiology MOLECULAR DRUGS: ACTION AND DESIGN, 1 credit, FALL 2004
  

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