General overview and introduction to most exciting and fundamental topics encompassing field of neuroscience.
Pre-requisite: Life Sciences 2 or 7C. Corequisite: course M101A.
Overview of human nervous system, brain development, anatomy and function, pathology. Introduction to brain circuits involved in fear and anxiety, memory, sensory, motor activities.
Structural survey of human body, including skeletomuscular, nervous, circulatory, respiratory, digestive, and genitourinary systems. Laboratory includes examination of human cadaver specimens.
Understanding of human body, its organization from molecular to cellular to tissues and organs, and how component parts function in integrated manner to permit life as we know it.
Pre-requisites: Life Sciences 3 and 4, or 7A, 7B, and 23L.
Historical foundations of microbiology; introduction to bacterial structure, physiology, biochemistry, genetics, and ecology.
Pre-requisite: Chemistry 153A.
Evolution, biodiversity, and sequencing of genomes; bacterial and viral genomes; bioenergetics; gene knockouts; genomics of antibiotic resistance; proteomics. Guest lecturers from department and related departments who discuss key papers with focus on their areas of expertise.
