- Docente: Barbara Monti
- Credits: 6
- SSD: BIO/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Second cycle degree programme (LM) in
Molecular and cellular biology (cod. 8021)
Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Health Biology (cod. 8023)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student has deepened inside the molecular mechanisms of cell physiology, including the response to hormones and to other cellular messengers, as well as of development and aging processes at the cellular, organ and body level.
Course contents
1. Physiopathological role of protein degradation mechanisms (proteasome and lysosomes) and autophagy.
2. Physiopathological cell death types.
3. Physiopathological role of conventional and non-conventional cellular communication systems, in particular those mediated by vesicles and gases (nitrogen monoxide).
4. Molecular mechanisms at the basis of homeostatic integration systems: neuroendocrine regulation.
5. Development of the nervous system as a model of functional molecular interactions and their alterations in senescence.
6. Gut-brain axis as a model of molecular interaction between the nervous system, the immune system and the digestive tract with the intestinal microbiota in relation mainly to the development of the CNS and to its alterations in the neurodevelopmental pathologies.
Readings/Bibliography
Basic knowledge of the already used texts of Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular biology will be required. Specific review and research articles will be suggested for the advanced stage of information.
Teaching methods
The course is organized in groups of lessons of 6 hours/week, 4 of which 4 (common both to the 6CFU course and to 4CFU one) on the different topics of molecular physiology indicated in programme points from 1 to 4 and 2 hours (only for students from 6CFU course) on points 5 and 6 of the programme. The teaching methods include frontal lectures, as well as presentation and discussion of scientific articles by students.
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Students who attend the 6 credits course are expected to present a scientific paper during the course. To this presentation it will be assigned a rating that is 50% of the final grade. At the end of the course, the oral examination will be an interview; to this inteview will be assigned a rating that will be the other half of the final grade.
For students who attend the credits course, there will be only an oral examination that will determine the final grade.
In both cases, the interview will ask the student to start from chosen subject and then to continue the discussion on various topics of the course.
Teaching tools
The material utilized for lectures (power point presentation) will be made available to students. Reading and analysis of research article will be encouraged.
Office hours
See the website of Barbara Monti