Columbia University - Department of Biological Sciences
C2908 - First Year Seminar in Modern
Biology - Fall 2009
| Wednesday 2:40-3:55, 415 Schapiro | Instructor: Dr. Alice Heicklen | Home Pages |
This course gives you a chance to hear about the latest research being conducted by scientists at Columbia University. Attendance at lectures required. After each lecture, you should write a summary of the talk you heard (1/2 to 1 page, maximum) and email it (pasted into the body of your message) to my assistant Christina Panas at cap2115@biology.columbia.edu within a week after each seminar. You can check the Grade Book at CourseWorks to verify that your assignments have been recorded 1 week after the assignment was due. Grading is based on attendance and timely submission of summaries.
| September 9 | No class |
| September 16 | Dr. Stephen Rayport, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia Medical Center, and NYSPI |
| Schizophrenia | |
| September 23 | Dr. Richard Robinson, Department of Pharmacology, Columbia Medical Center |
| Cardiac ion channel function and autonomic signaling cascades | |
| September 30 | Dr. Clark Hung, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University |
| Joint repair | |
| October 7 | Dr. Alla Grishok, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Columbia Medical Center |
| Short RNAs, chromatin, and expression in C. elegans | |
| Dr. Benjamin Ohlstein, Department of Genetics & Development, Columbia Medical Center | |
| Intestinal stem cells in Drosophila | |
| October 21 | Dr. Alice Prince, Department of Pharmacology, Columbia Medical Center |
| Immune response to respiratory viruses | |
| October 28 | Dr. John Loike, Department of Physiology & Cell Biophysics, Columbia Medical Center |
| Battle of the titans: leukocytes, bacteria, and cancer | |
| November 4 | Dr. Ruben Gonzalez, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University |
| Ribosomal protein synthesis | |
| November 11 | Dr. Eric Greene, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Columbia Medical Center |
DNA recombination and repair |
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| November 18 | Dr. Brian McCabe, Department of Physiology & Cell Biophysics, Columbia Medical Center |
| Synaptic development | |
| Thanksgiving - no class | |
| December 2 | Dr. Christopher Henderson, Departments of Pathology & Cell Biology, and Neurology, Columbia Medical Center |
| Neuronal stem cells | |
| December 9 | Dr. John Hunt, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University |
| Structural Genomics |
Grading
Everyone begins with an A. Every missed class decreases your grade one step: A to A-, A- to B+, etc. If you attend class but do not turn in a summary, this counts as if you missed the class. In addition, you must each ask two questions during the semester to keep your grade.
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