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1.00 Credits
Introduction to topological spaces and the fundamental group; topological spaces, continuous maps, metric spaces; product and quotient spaces; compactness, connectedness, and separation axioms; and introduction to homotopy and the fundamental group.
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1.00 Credits
This course will involve topics in algebraic topology, possibly including homology, cohomology, homotopy, and generalized cohomology theories.
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1.00 Credits
Group theory including Sylow theorems, basic ring and module theory, including structure of finitely generated modules over principal-ideal domains.
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1.00 Credits
This is a topics course in number theory.
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1.00 Credits
This course will cover a wide range of topics of current interest that are at the intersection of biology and chemistry. In particular, the molecular basis of issues related to drugs and disease will form a focus of the course. Topics to be discussed will include psychoactive and performance-enhancing drugs, mad cow, cancer, viral and bacterial diseases, and the chemistry of foods.
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1.00 Credits
This course presents an entrance-level exploration of the contemporary view of the cell and an introduction to the molecules and mechanisms of genetics. The course will begin with a general introduction to the principles of biology and the concept of the gene. The first half of the course will focus on the DNA molecule as the genetic material, and the "central dogma" of molecular biology describing the process of information transfer from the genetic code to protein synthesis and function. Topics include DNA replication, DNA mutation and repair, chromosome dynamics, RNA transcription and transcriptional regulation, protein translation, protein structure, posttranslational regulation of protein function, signal transduction and the molecular basis of cellular behavior. The second half of the course will focus on cell theory and the underlying molecular mechanisms of cellular activities. Topics will include membrane dynamics, energetics, the cytoskeleton, cell motility, the cell cycle, mitosis, meiosis, and nuclear and chromosome structure. To demonstrate the scientific process, lectures will stress the experimental basis for the conclusions presented.
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0.50 Credits
This laboratory course, to be taken concurrently with MB&B181 or BIOL181, provides direct experience with techniques used in cell biology and molecular biology. These include polymerase chain reaction (PCR), electrophoresis, enzyme assays, microscopy, and spectrophotometry. The lab course is a chance to learn these key techniques firsthand.
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1.25 Credits
This introductory course in cell biology and molecular genetics is designed for students with a substantial background in biology. All of the material and lectures of BIOL/MB&B181 will be included, and an additional two-hour meeting per week will cover related topics in considerably greater depth. Students will be exposed to the primary research science literature, develop a detailed appreciation of current methodologies used in the field, learn how to interpret various forms of experimental data to infer biological meaning, and discuss applications of modern molecular/cellular research in medicine and society.
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1.00 Credits
This course is a comprehensive survey of the molecules and molecular mechanisms underlying biological processes. It will focus on the cornerstone biological processes of genome replication, gene expression, and protein function. The major biomacromolecules--DNA, RNA, and proteins-will be analyzed to emphasize the principles that define their structure and function. We will also consider how these components interact in larger networks within cells to permit processing of external and internal information during development and discuss how these processes become perturbed in disease states.
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1.00 Credits
One of the major catalysts of the revolution in biology that is now under way is our current ability to determine the physical properties and three-dimensional structures of biological molecules by x-ray diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and other spectroscopic methods. This course is designed to familiarize students with current research techniques in biochemistry and molecular biophysics. Students will perform spectroscopic investigations on a protein that they have isolated and characterized using typical biochemical techniques, such as electrophoresis, enzyme extraction, and column chromatography. It will provide hands-on experience with spectroscopic methods such as NMR, fluorescence, UV-Vis absorption, and Raman as well as bioinformatic computational methods. All of these methods will be applied to the study of biomolecular structure and energetics. This course provides a broad knowledge of laboratory techniques valuable for independent research at the undergraduate level and beyond.
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