Course: Cell Structure and Function

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Course title Cell Structure and Function
Course code KMB/914
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Frequency of the course In each academic year, in the summer semester.
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Hashimi Hassan, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Anděra Ladislav, RNDr. CSc.
  • Pascual Guillem, Ph.D.
  • Varga Vladimír, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Staněk David, prof. Ph.D.
  • Neumann Pavel, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Dacks Joel, prof. Ph.D.
  • Boudová Michala
Course content
1.Introduction: general architecture of eukaryotic cell (vs prokaryotes) 2.Mitochondria 3.Mitochondria-like organelles 4.Apoptosis (Ladislav Andera (BIOCEV)-9% lecture) 5.Chloroplast (Guillem Pascual (Algatech)-9% lecture) 6.Cytoskeleton/Flagella (Vladimir Varga (UMG)-9% lecture) 7.Nucleus/Nucleolus (David Stanek (UMG)-9% lecture) 8.Mitosis: kinetochore, chromosomes, mitotic spindle (Pavel Neumann (UMBR BC-9% lecture) 9.Endomembrane system: ER, Golgi, trafficking (Joel Dacks, Unversity of Alberta-9% lecture; conducted online) 10.Integration of organelles: movement of mitochondria mitochondria along microtubules in neurons, ER/Mito contacts 11.Evolutionary Cell Biology

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified
Learning outcomes
This course provides students of the program the proper foundation for the basic unit of life, the cell, which decodes the information inherent in DNA.

Prerequisites
Molecular Biology (Molekulární biologie; KBM/250) or equivalent course from former university. Basic Cell Biology (Základy buněčné biologie; KMB/023) or equivalent course from former university.
KMB/250 and KMB/023

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
credit: small essay (2 standard pages/'normostrana', 1800 char) form of 'commentary' of cell biology paper. Also for extra credit toward final exam. exam: Oral or short answer written (min 50%).
Recommended literature
  • Compulsory literature will be a scientific article of the student's choosing published within the last 5 years that deals with one of the aspects of cell biology covered in one of the 11 lectures listed above..
  • Molecular Biology of the Cell' by Alberts et al. (e.g. 7th Edition).
  • Molecular Cell Biology' by Lodish et al. (e.g. 9th Edition).


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