Biology and Biotechnology Degrees

...This weekly seminar course focuses on developing the participants' ability to uncover and confront student misconceptions and to foster student understanding...

...the information that has been collected from studying genetic variation in model systems like nematode and drosophila for mutation studies....

...evolutionary genetics, and the larger scientific, social, ethical, and philosophical implications. Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session How genetics... Learn about: IT risk...

...His paper generated enormous scientific and public interest, and kick-started the field of Biological Computing, the main subject of this discussion based seminar course... Learn about: Molecular Biology, Engineering Science...

...2nd ed. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1992. ISBN: 9780716770305. Fersht, Alan. Enzyme Structure and Mechanism. 2nd ed. New York...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 3 hours / session 9.013J / 7.68J is an introductory course for graduate students aimed at providing a synthetic overview...

...2 sessions / week, 2 hours / session 9.01, 7.012 / 7.013 / 7.014 Each student will be expected to present 2 topics during the semester. All students should...

...and gradient sensing systems. Additional specific topics include: constructing and modeling of genetic networks, lambda phage as a genetic switch... Learn about: Cell Biology, Molecular Biology...

...to illustrate important problems and approaches in the field of computational and systems biology, and provide students a framework from which to evaluate new developments... Learn about: Research Literature...

...and cellular basis of synaptic plasticity, hippocampal function and the role of plasticity in both vertebrate and invertebrate memory. The course is taught... Learn about: Learning and Development...

...course is based on lectures and discussions of primary literature readings of recent research in the field of brain aging in humans. fMRI studies of patients...

...Lectures: One session / week, 2 hours / session Since the discovery of the structure of the DNA double helix in 1953 by Watson and Crick, the information... Learn about: Molecular Biology...

...demonstrations in lecture that allow you to experience the topic under study. Lectures work in tandem with the textbook. The course breaks into small recitations... Learn about: Professor Training...

...information between nerve cells, the effect of drugs on this process, and the development of nerve cells into the brain and spinal cord. We then move...

...concerns the relation of structure and function at various levels of neuronal integration. Topics include functional neuroanatomy and neurophysiology...

...two-term survey of brain and behavioral studies for first-year graduate students. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 3 hours / session 9.011 is an introductory...

...Topics will include visual perception, language, memory, cognitive architecture, learning, reasoning, decision-making, and cognitive development... Learn about: Decision Making, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Development...

...3 hours / session In this seminar anatomical, neurophysiological, imaging and behavioral research will be examined in an attempt to gain a better understanding...

...for perception and sensorimotor control, focusing on physiological and anatomical studies of the mammalian nervous system as well as behavioral studies of animals and humans...

...with an emphasis on human and animal models of hippocampal mechanisms and function. Class sessions include lectures and discussion of papers...