PřF:Bi1500 Tumor biology for non-biologis - Course Information
Bi1500 Tumor biology for non-biologists/Cell philosophy
Faculty of ScienceAutumn 2013
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: z (credit). Other types of completion: graded credit.
- Teacher(s)
- prof. RNDr. Jana Šmardová, CSc. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. RNDr. Jan Šmarda, CSc.
Department of Experimental Biology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Jana Šmardová, CSc.
Supplier department: Department of Experimental Biology – Biology Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Mon 16. 9. to Fri 6. 12. Thu 16:00–17:50 B11/235
- Prerequisites
- High-school knowledge of essential cell biology.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- Multicellular organism represents a system composed of cells that interact and cooperate. Detailed understanding of tumors and their general features provide deeper insight into principles and rules that have to be followed by cells to create functional and healthy multicellular organisms. The lectures of the course will aim to clarify the specific attributes of tumors to focus the attention of listeners to some of important principles determining function of healthy multicellular organisms. This will be the starting point for looking for parallels and extrapolations of these principles and their validity in other systems, such as in human society. We are going to think together, whether human beings, similarly as tumor cells, are capable of breaking these rules in dangerous and self-destructing way. To attend the course, only basic knowledge (high-school level) of biology and effort to think and understand are required. To pass the course successfully and get two credits, the students have to participate in the talks regularly and write short essay. In this essay, the student is supposed to interconnect the theme of the course with his/her own field of study.
- Syllabus
- cell philosophy
- multicellular organisms as a system
- regulation of cell division
- cell death
- cell immortality
- tumor nutrition
- metastasis formation
- genetic instability - the rules of coexistence
- two views on tumor development – the role of microenvironment
- intercellular communication
- multicellular organisms II
- tumor as a principle
- Literature
- recommended literature
- WEINBERG, Robert A. Jediná odrodilá bunka :ako vzniká rakovina. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Kalligram, 2000, 177 s. ISBN 80-7149-361-9. info
- Teaching methods
- lectures – disscussions
- Assessment methods
- regular attendance of the course, written assay
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
- Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2013, recent)
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