Topics of Interest:

Cell Biology

(http://ocw.core.org.cn/CORE/biology/cell-biology/Course_listing)

Course Description: Cell Biology is to acquaint the undergraduates with the basic knowledge, concepts and fundamental theories of cell structure, function, and the molecular mechanisms of life activities at the level of molecules, sub-cells and cells, as well as the brief history and most advanced fields of the subject being taught. This course include topics: review of cell biology and its researching methods, biomembrane system, genetic information carrier and expression system, cytoskeleton, and cell proliferation, differentiation and cell senescence and apoptosis. All the teaching contents are finished within 51 periods in one semester.

Online Course Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Techniques in Cell Biology

Chapter 3: Biomembranes: Their Structure, Chemistry and Functions

Chapter 4: Extracelldtar matrix, Cell junction and cell adhension

Chapter 5: The Movement of Substances Across Cell Membranes

Chapter 6: Cell Signaddng

Chapter 7: Endomembrane system, Protein Sorting and membrane trafficking

Chapter 8: Energy Generation in Mitochondria and Chloroplasts

Chapter 9: Nucleus and Chromosomes

Chapter 10: Cytoskeleton System

Chapter 11: Cell proddferation and its regdtation

Chapter 12: Cell differentiation and Cancer cells

Chapter 13: Cell senescence and apoptosis