Course Identification

Discovery Milestones in Cell Biology
20253061

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Dr. Ofir Klein
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Course Schedule and Location

2025
First Semester
10:00 - 13:00
04/11/2024
27/01/2025

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Life Sciences: Lecture; 2.00 points

Comments

The lectures are pre-recorded (https://www.ibiology.org/online-biology-courses/cell-biology-flipped-course/). 11 out of the 14 weeks of semester, the students will watch a recorded lecture and have a short assignment. In addition, there will be 3 frontal sessions for tutorials and discussion, and home assignments (one in the middle of the course and one at the end).

1) Nov. 25th 2024- 10:00-13:00- To be held in Science Teaching Lab 2
2) Dec. 23rd 2024- 10:00-13:00- To be held in Science Teaching Lab 2
3) Jan. 27th 2025- 10:00-13:00- To be held in Science Teaching Lab 2

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

20

Language of Instruction

English

Registration by

13/10/2024

Attendance and participation

Expected and Recommended

Grade Type

Numerical (out of 100)

Grade Breakdown (in %)

15%
15%
35%
35%
11 short weekly assignments and 2 take-home assignments (interim and final)

Evaluation Type

Final assignment

Scheduled date 1

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-
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Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

2

Syllabus

1 - Origins of life

2 - Organization of the cytoplasm

3 - G-proteins

4 - Vesicle trafficking

5 - Cell motility

6 - Cytoskeletal motor proteins

7 - Cell division

8 - Protein kinases

9 - Cell cycle

10 - Protein localization inside cells

11 - ER membrane contact sites

 

Learning Outcomes

To gain a strong understanding of fundamental cell biology topics and principles, and the key discoveries which shaped the field.

Reading List

Reading material will be given out during the course.

Website

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