ELT-72106 Cellular Interactions, 5 cr

Person responsible

Jari Hyttinen

Lessons

Implementation Period Person responsible Requirements
ELT-72106 2016-01 4 Jari Hyttinen
Accepted assignments, exercise work, oral seminar presentation, and final exam.

Learning Outcomes

Student can explain the basic mechanisms of cellular electrophysiology and mechanobiology and the inter-cell communication underlying these physical phenomena. Student can explain the bioelectric and mechanobiological phenomena of various cell types such as neuronal cells in nervous system and cardiac cells in heart. Student can explain the common methods to measure and model bioelectric and mechanobiological systems. Finally, student can also describe the basics of modelling of these cellular phenomena and design simple computational models. .

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Basic cellular communication and mechanism.   Cellular communication and mechanisms in various cell types.   Application towards tissue repair 
2. Cellular electrophysiology, an bioelectric phenomena and their models.   Cellular electrophysiology, and functions of ion channels and interaction in various cell types.   
3. Basics of mechanobiology and mechanic interactions.   Mechanobiology and biomaterial interaction.    
4. Recordings and manipulation of the cellular functions.      
5. Modelling of cellular functions with compartmental and cellular automata model.  Computational modelling of cellular bioelectric phenomena.   

Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes

The final grade of the course is determined based on the assessment of all part of the course. The weighting factor of each part is given at the beginning of the course. Grades 1-2: Learning outcomes have been achieved. Satisfactory command in core content of the course. Grades 3-4: Some learning outcomes have been exceeded qualitatively or quantitatively. Good command in core content and complementary knowledge of the course. Good or very good marks from all parts of the course. Grade 5: Most of the learning outcomes have been exceeded. Deep command in the whole content of the course. Almost maximum performance in all parts of the course.

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (0-5)

Partial passing:

Completion parts must belong to the same implementation

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Additional information Examination material
Lecture slides   Lecture slides           Yes   

Prerequisites

Course Mandatory/Advisable Description
SGN-51006 Biology of the Cell Mandatory   1
YHTTAY-21021 Solun biologian perusteet Mandatory   1

1 . One of these.



Correspondence of content

Course Corresponds course  Description 
ELT-72106 Cellular Interactions, 5 cr BME-5106 Cellular Interactions, 5 cr  
ELT-72106 Cellular Interactions, 5 cr BMT-72106 Cellular Biophysics , 5 cr  

Updated by: Nousiainen Juha, 14.04.2016