Part I. Chemical and Molecular Foundations.1. Molecules,
Cells, and Model Organisms2. Chemical Foundations3. Protein
Structure and Function4. Culturing and Visualising
Cells
Part II. Biomembranes, Genes, and Gene
Regulation5. Fundamental Molecular Genetic Mechanisms6.
Molecular Genetic Techniques7. Biomembrane Structure8. Genes,
Genomics, and Chromosomes9. Transcriptional Control of Gene
Expression10. Post-transcriptional Gene Control
Part
III. Cellular Organization and Function11. Transmembrane
Transport of Ions and Small Molecules12. Cellular Energetics13.
Moving Proteins into Membranes and Organelles14. Vesicular Traffic,
Secretion, and Endocytosis15. Signal Transduction and G
Protein–Coupled Receptors16. Signaling Pathways That Control Gene
Expression17. Cell Organization and Movement I: Microfilaments18.
Cell Organization and Movement II: Microtubules and Intermediate
Filaments19. The Eukaryotic Cell Cycle
Part IV. Cell
Growth and Differentiation20. Integrating Cells Into Tissues21.
Stem Cells, Cell Asymmetry, and Cell Death22. Cells of the Nervous
System23. Immunology24. Cancer
Harvey Lodish is Professor of Biology and Professor of
Bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a
member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Dr.
Lodish is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was President (2004) of
the American Society for Cell Biology. He is well known for his
work on cell membrane physiology, particularly the biosynthesis of
many cell-surface proteins, and on the cloning and functional
analysis of several cell-surface receptor proteins, such as the
erythropoietin and TGF-ß receptors. His lab also studies
hematopoietic stem cells and has identified novel proteins that
support their proliferation. Dr. Lodish teaches undergraduate and
graduate courses in cell biology and biotechnology.
Arnold Berk is Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and
Molecular Genetics and a member of the Molecular Biology Institute
at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Berk is also a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is one of
the original discoverers of RNA splicing and of mechanisms for gene
control in viruses. His laboratory studies the molecular
interactions that regulate transcription nitiation in mammalian
cells, focusing particular attention on transcription factors
encoded by oncogenes and tumor suppressors. He teaches introductory
courses in molecular biology and virology and an advanced course in
cell biology of the nucleus.
Chris A. Kaiser is Professor and Head of the
Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His laboratory uses genetic and cell biological methods to
understand the basic processes of how newly synthesized membrane
and secretory proteins are folded and stored in the compartments of
the secretory pathway. Dr. Kaiser is recognized as a top
undergraduate educator at MIT, where he has taught genetics to
undergraduates for many years.
Monty Krieger is the Whitehead Professor in the
Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For his innovative teaching of undergraduate biology and human
physiology as well as graduate cell biology courses, he has
received numerous awards. His laboratory has made contributions to
our understanding of membrane trafficking through the Golgi
apparatus and has cloned and characterized receptor proteins
important for the movement of cholesterol into and out of cells,
including the HDL receptor.
Anthony Bretscher is Professor of Cell Biology at Cornell
University. His laboratory is well known for identifying and
characterizing new components of the actin cytoskeleton, and
elucidating their biological functions in relation to cell polarity
and membrane traffic. For this work, his laboratory exploits
biochemical, genetic and cell biological approaches in two model
systems, vertebrate epithelial cells and the budding yeast. Dr.
Bretscher teaches cell biology to graduate students at Cornell
University.
Hidde Ploegh is Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and a member of the Whitehead Institute for
Biomedical Research. One of the world’s leading researchers in
immune system behavior, Dr. Ploegh studies the various tactics that
viruses employ to evade our immune responses, and the ways in which
our immune system distinguishes friend from foe. Dr. Ploegh teaches
immunology to undergraduate students at Harvard University and
MIT.
Angelika Amon is Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, a member of the Koch Institute for
Integrative Cancer Research, and Investigator at the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute. She is also a member of the National Academy of
Sciences. Her laboratory studies the molecular mechanisms that
govern chromosome segregation during mitosis and meiosis and the
consequences—aneuploidy—when these mechanisms fail during normal
cell proliferation and cancer development. Dr. Amon teaches
undergraduate and graduate courses in cell biology and
genetics.
Kelsey Martin is Professor of Biological
Chemistry and Psychiatry and interim Dean of the David Geffen
School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
She is the former Chair of the Biological Chemistry Department Her
laboratory studies the ways in which experience changes connections
between neurons in the brain to store long-term memories—a process
known as synaptic plasticity. She has made important contributions
to elucidating the molecular and cell biological mechanisms that
underlie this process. Dr. Martin teaches basic principles of
neuroscience to undergraduates, graduate students, dental students,
and medical students.
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