Signaling
Credits: 3
Signaling course outline (Raghu-RP, Sunil-SL, Sandeep-SK), Feb-April 2017
Course will consist of two classes a week (Tuesday and thursday), one lecture covering a topic, and one set of papers for discussion. Total: 10 lectures+10 discussions
Open house on Thursday, 31st, for a short summary of the course outline and structure. This will be at the colonnade (SLC) at 10 am.
Course outline:
1) Introduction to signaling (RP) Feb 5, Feb 7
2) Receptors (RP) Feb 12, 14
3) Transducers (RP) Feb 19, 21
4) Second messengers (SL) Feb 26, 28
5) Mechanisms of protein phosphorylation by kinases (& ub & ac) (SL) Mar 5, 7
6) Reversing signals (phosphatases, phosphodiesterases etc) (SL) Mar 12, 14
No class in the week of March 18 – 22 (inStem annual talks)
7) Allosteric regulation of signaling enzymes (SL) Mar 26, 28
8) Signaling complexes (RP) April 2, 4
9) Modern methods to study signaling (SL) April 9, 11
10) Variability and noise (SK) April 16, 18
Final exam TBD, end of April
Course assessment:
50% for course participation, weekly discussion sections
50% from the exam, which will be a traditional question paper with 5 questions (any three to be answered).
- Teacher: Sandeep Krishna
- Teacher: Sunil Laxman
- Teacher: Raghu Padinjat