Cell Biology W3041/W4041
Spring 2005

 

Class location:   633 Seeley Mudd Bldg

Class meets:      Tues and Thurs, 10:35 - 11:50/

 

 

Instructors

Audrey Minden, Ph.D.

Chloe Bulinski, Ph.D.

Office location:

813 Fairchild

804A Fairchild

Campus Mail Code

2460

2450

Office Hours

Mondays 2-4 and by appointment

TBA

Phone

854-5632

854-5570

Email

agm24@columbia.edu

jcb4@columbia.edu

 

 

 

TAs:

 

TBA

 

 

 

Text: Molecular Biology of the Cell, 4th edition, by Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, James D. Watson

 

 

Lecture

Date

Topic

Readings in Alberts and Links to figures

1

Tu Jan 18

Minden

Overview

 

Evolution of cells and different cell types

 

Intro to Eukaryotic cell structure.

 

Ch 1

Evolution of cells [pdf]

 

Figures:
evolution [ppt]

 

2

Thu Jan 20

Minden

Review of membrane structure

 Transport across membranes

 

Ch 10

Ch 11 (615-635)

Membranes 

Membrane Transport 

Figures
membranes [ppt]
transport [ppt]

3

Tu Jan 25

Minden

Organelle biogenesis

Secretory pathway I

 

 

Ch 12 (551-560, 577-595)

 

4

Thu Jan 27

Minden

 

Secretory pathway Part II

Organelle Biogenesis [doc]
Organelle Biogenesis [ppt]

Endoplasmic Reticulum [ppt]

Ch 13

5

Tu Feb 1

Minden

 

Vesicle traffic

Transmembrane Transport [ppt]

Transmembrane Transport [doc]

6

Th Feb 3

Review

 

 

7

Tu Feb 8

Minden

 

Exam I

 

 

8

Th Feb 10

Minden

 

Cell signaling I & II

 

Ch 15
lecture notes
figures: Signaling

9

Tu Feb 15

Minden

 

Cell signaling III

Ch 15

 

10

Th Feb 17

Minden

Cell Signaling IV

 

 

Ch 15

11

Tu Feb 22

Minden

No Class

 

 

 

 

 

12

Th Feb 24,

Minden

Cell cycle

 

 

Ch 17

15) Cell Cycle [pdf]

15) Figures: 
Cell Cycle (a)
[pdf]   
Cell Cycle (b)
[pdf]  
Cell Cycle (c)
[pdf]   
Cell Cycle (d)
[pdf]
Cell Cycle (e) [pdf]   
Cell Cycle (f)
[pdf]

 

13

Tu March 1

Minden

 

Cancer and papers

Ch 23

Ch 23

16) Cancer [pdf]

 

14

Th March 3

Minden

 

Review

 

15

Tu March 8

Minden

Exam II

 

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16

Th March 10

Bulinski

 

Cytoskeleton I

 

 

March 14-18

Spring Break

 

 

17

Tu March 22

Bulinski

Cytoskeleton II

 

 

 

18

Th March 24

Bulinski

 

Cytoskelon II

 

19

Tu March 28

No Class

 

 

20

Th March 31

Bulinski

Extracellular Matrix

Cell Cell and Cell ECM interactions

 

 

21

Tu Apr 5

Bulinski

Cell and organelle Movement

 

 

 

22

Th Apr 7

Review and papers

 

 

23

Tu Apr 12

Bulinski

Nuclear transport

Peroxisomal transport

Proteasomes

(or I could fit this in too)

 

 

24

Th Apr 14

Bulinski

 

New Topic I

 

 

25

Tu Apr 19

Bulinski

 

New Topic II

 

26

Th Apr 21

Bulinski

 

New Topic III and/or Review

Or Papers

 

 

27

Tu Apr 26

Bulinski

 

Exam II or papers due?

 

28

Th Apr 28

Bulinski

 

Last class/Review

 

 

 

Finals