Power point slide shows and hand outs will be available online after (perhaps before) the lecture takes place. Click the link below to dowload the ppt file (or pdf file).

Week

Topic

Lecture hand outs and materials (click on each talk)

1 first day of class)

Overview and review of basic cell structure, function and cell diversity in mammals

L-1

Overview of all lectures, course organization

L2

Equilibrium of ions and anions cross cell membrane

download the lecture (PPT)

The nernst calculation (xls file)

The Nernst Calculation: selected student's works

(Brynn Berg file and Jessica Ellis file )

L3

All you need to know about Bioelectricity

Download the lecture (PPT)

Down load the axon guid (large file!)

2

Membrane voltage-gated ion channels (part 1): molecular structure, biophysics

L4

Action potentials and methods for studying ion channels

Download the lecture (PPT)

Download Hodgkin Nobel lecture: The ionic basis of nerve conduction (pdf formate)

Download Huxley Nobel lecture: The quantitive analysis of excitation and conduction in nerve (pdf formate)

Dowload Erwin Neher Nobel Lecture: Ion channels for communication between and within the cells

Dowload Bert Sakmann Nobel lecture: Elementary steps in synaptic transmission revealed by currents through single cahnnels

/L5

Molecular structure and classification of ion channels

Handout

L6

3

Membrane voltage-gated ion channels (part 2): regulation of physiological and pathological process

Lab1

Nobel Lecture: Roderick MacKinnon, Potassium channels and the Atomic Basis of selective Ion Conduction

dowload pdf formate

 

L7

Mechanisms of ion channels block, toxins

Mechanisms of dendrotoxin’ss block (pdf)

Download handout

L9

Dysfunction of ion channels and human disease: The Channelopathies

Channelophathies reading 1 (pdf)

Voltage-gated channels and disease (pdf)

4

Microscopy theory and techniques, novel microscopy techniques

L10

The light microscopes

L11

Fluorescence(power point file)

Fluorescence imaging (large pdf file)

L12

Two photon, Green fluorescent protein (ppt file)

5

Transport across biological membranes: molecular structures, biophysics and regulation of physiological and pathological process 

L13

Novel microscopy techniques

 

L14

Exam 1 : Membrane channels and microscopy

L15

Principals of transport cross cell membrane /ATPase NaK pump, Ca2+ pump and other membrane transporters

the lecture ppt

6

Cell-to-cell signaling (1): hormones, receptors and intracellular messengers

L16

Transporters: regulation of physiological and pathological process

L17

Introduction to signal transduction system

L18

G-protein coupled receptors

7

Cell-to-cell signaling (2)

Physiology and diseases

L19

Small G-proteins and Protein phosphorylation

L20

Nitric oxide, steroid and cannabinoid signalling

Assignment No. 2: singnal transductions

L21

Nobel lecture: Paul Greengard, Neurobiology and dopaminergic signaling

8

Protein synthesis, vesicular trafficking, endocytosis and exocytosis

L22

The "secrete" life of the cell: exocytosis and endocytosis

L23

Advance topics of endocytosis and exocytosis

L24

Experimental theory and techniques for studying hormone secretion

9

Extracellular matrix and cell-cell interactions 

L25

Extracellular matrix and cell interactions

L20

Gap junctions and cell functions

Handout

L27

Exam 2: Second messengers and cell-cell intereractions

The dates for exam to be annouce soon (October-31)

 

 

 

 

Ligand-gated ion channels

L28

Ligand-gated ion channels1

L29

Ligand-gated ion channels 2

L30

Neurons and glia

 

 

12

Synaptic transmission, and neuromuscular junction

L31

Skeletal muscle, Neuromuscular junction

L32

Cellular mechanisms of Neurological disorders

L19

pH-regulation (acid-base balance)

 

 

13

Genetic approaches to study the physiology of mammalian cell:

L34

The central Dogma, The human Genome project

L35

From genome to mRNA (transcription)

L36

From mRNA to protein (translation)

 

 

14

Aspects of experimental techniques in cell physiology

L37

Manipulating Cells and Viruses in Culture

L38

Recombinant DNA, Gene transfection and manipulation

L39

Protein analysis (2D gel etc), Introduction to Proteomics

 

 

15

Aspects of experimental techniques in cell physiology (II)

L40

Transgenic animals, Animal Cloning and Stem cells

L41

TBD

L42

TBD

 

 

16

Final exam

L43

TBD

L44

 

L45

Exame 3: Final exam: Molecular physiology and selected topics in excitable cells

 

 

17

Student Presentations (2)

L46

 

L47

A example of Student Presentation: Rich Jenkins

DNA Microarray  

L48

 

Last updated : November 6, 2006