Biology Integration: From Molecules to Organisms.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Enrollment is restricted to students with graduate standing that have completed at least a minor in biology or equivalent. This course will expose students to the recent advances in the biology subdisciplines that span from molecules to organisms, by examining how molecular and cellular processes scale and culminate to affect organisms. Students will focus on understanding experimental approaches and practical applications critical to evaluate research in molecular, cellular, developmental and organismal biology. The course is the first of two courses with the goal of equipping the students with the conceptual framework that will allow them to make sense and integrate the broad biological information they will be exposed to during their careers. The overall approach reflects the broad multidisciplinary, multi-scale reality of modern/contemporary biological sciences and will help students identify themes, patterns and processes that transcend the scales of biological organization from molecules to organisms.