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Courses
Upon admission, students are assigned a graduate adviser who guides them through the program's formal requirements. The student also chooses a major professor who serves as a mentor and later supervises the dissertation research. Students work with their major professor and graduate adviser to design a course of study that may include courses offered by other graduate programs or departments.
Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology Graduate Courses
Quarters offered:
- Fall quarter (September to December)
- Winter quarter (January to March)
- Spring quarter (April to June)
MCP 200L. Animal Cell Culture Laboratory (4)
Discussion; laboratory. Prerequisite: courses in undergraduate biochemistry, cell biology, or general physiology, or consent of instructor. Techniques of cell culture, with emphases on cell physiology and the actions of drugs and toxicants on cultured somatic cells. Design, performance and interpretation of experiments with animal cells in vitro. (II) Wilson
MCP 210A-210B-210C. Advanced Physiology (4-6-6)
Lecture; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite: graduate student in the Physiology Graduate Group Ph.D. program, or consent of instructor. Advanced course on general principles of physiology, surveying homeostasis, cellular and selected topics, and neurophysiology. (I-II-III) Cala, Ferns, Stebbins, Adams
MCIP 210L. Physiology Laboratory Rotations (5) Laboratory-15 hours. One mandatory 10-week rotation and up to two more voluntary rotations in a laboratory of the student's choice. Students will learn techniques and perform experiments related to a particular research problem. Students will prepare a poster (on either their first or second rotation) to be presented at the Spring colloquium. (I-II-III) Widdicombe, Zheng
MCP 216. Neurophysiology Literature (3)
Lecture; discussion. Lectures covering experimental and theoretical methods in studying cell membrane ion channels and the resulting characterization of the physiological functions and structure/function relationships of some of the most important channel types. Discussion of classical and current original papers. (I) Pappone
MCP 219. Muscle Growth and Development (3)
Lecture; seminar. Prerequisite: Biological Sciences 103, Biological Sciences 104 or Molecular and Cellular Biology 150, or consent of instructor. Integration of growth and development of skeletal muscle; morphology, biochemistry, neural control mechanisms, circulatory and nutritional factors. Prenatal and neonatal differentiation of fiber types. Experimental and hereditary myopathies. Offered in alternate years. (III) Bodine
MCP 220. General and Comparative Physiology of Reproduction (3)
Lecture. Prerequisite: Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior 101, 101L; Biological Sciences 101, 103. Basic phenomena of sexual and asexual reproduction and comparisons of processes in a wide variety of animals; gamete formation, structure, and metabolism; fertilization; neuroendocrine mechanisms in maturation and reproductive cycles; behavioral aspects. (III) Adams, Berger, Conley
MCP 222. Mammalian Gametogenesis and Fertilization (3)
Lecture/discussion. Prerequisite: Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior 121 or the equivalent. Course will emphasize our current understanding of events in mammalian gametogenesis and the fertilization process. Published results, conclusions drawn from these results, and their contribution to our understanding will be discussed. (III) Berger
MCP 242. Biological Rhythms (3) Lecture; lecture/discussion. Prerequisite: Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior 110 or the equivalent. General aspects and basic mechanisms of biological rhythms; the importance of rhythm desynchronization in areas of pharmacology and space medicine; telemetry; mathematical methods; chronometry; daily, reproductive, and annual periods; shift-work, jet lag and sleep disorders. Offered in alternate years. (I) Fuller
MCP 255. Stress Physiology (2) Lecture; seminar -1 hour. Prerequisite: graduate student in the Physiology Graduate Group Ph.D. program, or consent of instructor. Advanced course on principles of neuroendocrine and cellular stress physiology, mechanisms of adaptation to environmental and extracellular stress, and evolution of the stress response. (III) Kueltz
MCP 261A. Topics in Vision (2) Lecture/discussion. Prerequisite: Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior 100 and 112 or the equivalent, graduate standing. Visual system functions and underlying mechanisms. Emphasis on recent research and pertinent aspects of anatomy, biochemistry, electrophysiology, psychophysics, development and genetics. Topics may vary each year. (Same course as Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior 261A and Neuroscience 261A.) (S/U grading only.) (II) Ishida
MCP 290. Seminar Seminar. Discussion and critical evaluation of advanced topics and current trends in research.
MCP 290C. Research Conference in Physiology Discussion. Prerequisite: graduate standing and consent of instructor. Presentation and discussion of faculty and graduate student research in physiology.
MCP 291D. Research Approaches in Physiology (2) Seminar. Prerequisite: graduate standing in Graduate Group in Physiology or consent of instructor. Current research in physiology. Overall design of experiments and particular research areas. (II) Eiserich
MCP 298. Group Study
MCP 299. Research
MCP 300A-300B. Pedagogical Aspects of Physiology in Higher Education Lecture, discussion, or laboratory, or combination. Prerequisite: meet qualifications for teaching assistant in physiology. Participation as a teaching assistant for one quarter in a designated physiology course. Instruction in methods of leading discussion groups, leading laboratory sections, writing and grading quizzes, operation and use of laboratory equipment, and reading and grading laboratory reports. Course meets teaching requirements for Ph.D. program in Physiology.
MCP 390. The Teaching of Physiology Discussion. Prerequisite: Teaching Assistant assignment to a physiology lecture course and consent of instructor. Practical experience in methods and problems of teaching physiology lecture courses. May include analyses of texts and supporting material, discussion of teaching techniques, preparing for and conducting discussion sessions, and formulation of topics and questions for examinations under supervision of instructor.
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