BMOL 6106 Course outline

BMOL 6106: Adv. Topics in Cell Regulation

Course Coordinator: Dr A. Omri

Rm. S416

aomri@laurentian.ca

 

Room: F-227

 

Lecture Schedule: Fridays 2 pm to 5 pm

Date

Time

Topic

Professor

January 12

3h

Introduction

Dr. Kumar/ Dr. Omri

January 19

3h

Signal Transduction: ­ the receptors

Dr.  Kumar

January 26

3h

Signal Transduction: Adapter, 2nd Messenger, cAMP

Dr. Parissenti

February 2

3h

Signaling cascades, MAPK, PI3K, JAK/STAT, RAS family

Dr. Lafrenie

February 9

3h

Transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene regulation

Dr. Sutherland

February 16

3h

Translation, translation regulation, protein targeting, post-translational modifications.

Dr. Gauthier

Feb 19

 

Study week

 

March 2

3h

Cell cycle/  

Drs. Lanner/Ritz

March 9

3h

Cell survival/cell death pathways

Dr. Gauthier

March 16

3h

1. Evolutionary biology I.  2. Bioconjugates

Drs. Mallory/Narain

March 23

3h

1. Evolutionary biology II. 2. Metal Ion Homeostasis

Drs. Mallory/ Siemann/

March 30

3h

EM effects and integrating levels of discourse within Biomolecular sciences

Dr. Persinger

April 6

3h

Oral Presentation: all BMOL professors invited

BMOL professors

Final week

 

Grant proposal due Friday April 6 at noon.

Dr. Omri

Grant applications should answer these questions:

  1. What is your research proposal?
  2. Why is the work important?
  3. Describe past studies related to your proposal?
  4. What is your methodology?
  5. What are the expected results.

Grant in Detail

1.   The grant proposal conforming to CIHR guidelines: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/ (budget not included).

2.   You must choose your topic soon. The course coordinator must approve the topic of each student’s grant proposal by Monday, February 12, 2007.

3.   The grant proposal topic cannot be related to the student's Ph.D's. current research.

4.   The grant proposal is due at noon on Friday, April 6 2007, in S-416. TEN marks penalty per day late.

5.   The final grant proposal to be read by the coordinator and a second faculty member (co-reader). The course coordinator, after considering the co-reader’s evaluation, will then give a final mark for the grant proposal.

6.   The grant proposal should have an Introduction including an abstract, a statement of objectives for the research, a justification, and expected benefits, a detailed objective statement including a rationale, any hypotheses to be tested, the plan of work and anticipated schedule, a section on methodology to be used, a discussion of significance (benefits anticipated for science and future research, and a Bibliography of significant references.

7.   Plagiarism will not be tolerated, refer to http://laurentian.ca/vpacademic/POLICIES/ACADEMICDISHONESTY.pdf for L.U. plagiarism guidelines.

 

BMOL 6106: Adv. Topics in Cell Regulation

 

Course Coordinator: Dr A. Omri

 

Professors:

Dr. Gauthier

Dr. Kumar

Dr. Lafrenie

Dr. Lannér

Dr. Mallory

Dr. Narain

Dr. Omri

Dr. Parissenti

Dr. Ritz

Dr. Siemann

Dr. Sutherland

 

Participation:     20%

Seminar:             20% to be held in one week (April-2) with all BMOL professors invited

Grant:                  30% to be selected from outside the student’s area of study; to be selected by the student and approved by the course coordinator.

Exam:                  30% take home exam

 

Each section will have a reading assignment of approximately 4 papers.

 

We are estimating that 4-6 students will be enrolled in this course. Each professor's section will be 1.5 to 6 hours in length.

 
 
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