Course Identification

Title:

Principles in Developmental Neurobiology

Code:

20233151

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Avraham Yaron, Prof. Oren Schuldiner, Prof. Elior (Ori) Peles

TA's:

N/A

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2023

Semester:

First Semester

When / Where:

Sunday, 14:15 - 16:00, WSoS, Rm A
Wednesday, 14:15 - 15:00, WSoS, Rm A

First Lecture:

06/11/2022

End date:

10/02/2023

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Life Sciences: Lecture; Elective; Regular; 3.00 points
Life Sciences (Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience Track): Lecture; Obligatory; Regular; 3.00 points
Life Sciences (Brain Sciences: Systems, Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Track): Lecture; Elective; Regular; 3.00 points

Comments

See Syllabus
Priority will be given to students from the Mol. Neuro program

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

Participants:

26

Language of Instruction

English

Registration by

Registration By:27/10/2022

Attendance and participation

Required in at least 80% of the lectures

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Attendance

20%

Seminar:

80%

Evaluation Type

Seminar

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

1.5

Syllabus

This interactive course will provide an overview to our current understanding of the molecular mechanism underlying neuronal development with specific emphasis on examples from fruit flies and mammals. Topics that will be covered include neuronal induction, cell fate determination, cell-cell interactions, neuronal migration, axon guidance, target selection, myelination, neuronal remodeling, and synaptic development and competition.

The course is based on frontal lectures and a seminar. Its an interactive course in which students are expected to be engaged in the discussion. Grades will be based on the seminar (80%) and participation and discussion in the classes (20%).

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be be able to:

[1] learn to dissect basic problems in developmental neurobiology.

[2] think of experimental strategies to solve them

[3] know classical experiments that lay the foundations of our current understanding of the principles of developmental neurobiology.

[4] teach students critical reading and presentation skills (seminar part)

Reading List

N/A

Website

N/A