Prerequisites
An introductory biology course is a prerequisite. Most of you will have taken Introduction to Molecular and Cellular Biology (C2005/C2006) or Contemporary Biology (F2401/F2402) here at Columbia. If you took a biology course a few years ago or at a different school, I suggest that you look through the syllabus for our introductory course C2006/F2402 and review the relevant chapters in Purves (Life: The science of biology, which covers these topics in less depth and in fewer pages) or in Sherwood, both of which are on reserve in the Biology Library.
More specifically, here are some of the topics that I expect you to have studied.
General:
- Cell structure. Purves: 71-92. Sherwood: Chapter 2
- How stuff gets across the membrane, communicating between cells, signal transduction . Purves: Chapter 5. Sherwood: Chapter 3.
Endocrine
- Basic principles of endocrinology. Sherwood: Chapter 18, pages 621-635