Course Identification

Title:

Biology module: Cell biology and cancer

Code:

20236122

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Dr. Michal Haskel Ittah, Dr. Sabina Winograd-Katz, Prof. Alexander Bershadsky, Prof. Zvi Livneh, Prof. Moshe Oren, Dr. Leeat Yankielowicz-Keren

TA's:

N/A

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2023

Semester:

Second Semester

When / Where:

Tuesday, 12:45 - 14:00, Musher, Lab 2

First Lecture:

28/02/2023

End date:

11/07/2023

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Science Teaching (non thesis MSc Track): Lecture; Obligatory; Regular; 2.00 points

Comments

לתלמידי שני השנתונים

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

Participants:

20

Other:

For students in the Rothschild-Weizmann program only

Language of Instruction

Hebrew

Attendance and participation

Obligatory

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Attendance

10%

Interim:

10%

Final:

80%

0

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

1

Syllabus

Methodologies of studying cells

The dynamic nature of the cytoskeleton and its function

Cell division

Cell adhesion and cell migration

Living bones - Processes of bone remodeling

Challenges in teaching the cellular level

DNA damage

DNA repair mechanisms

Oncogenes and cancer inhibitors genes

Immunotherapy and the tumor immune microenvironment

Public understanding of cancer and teaching cancer

Learning Outcomes

Students will have the ability to think of the cell as a functional unit and understand the mechanisms underlie its proper function (and what happens when these are disrupted).

Reading List

-

Website

N/A