Cellular & Molecular Medicine Courses

The faculty in the Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine teach in a wide variety of graduate and medical school courses involving cell biology and molecular biology.

Required BMS Graduate Courses:

BMS-200 From the Molecule to the Organism
Course Director: Steve Dowdy, Ph.D., and Alexandra Newton, Ph.D.
Theme Leader Lecturers: Fu, Emr, Hamilton, Cleveland, Spector
BMS-200 Course Syllabus in .PDF Format

BIOM-201 Seminar in Biomedical Research
Course Director: Bruce Hamilton (Medicine and CMM)
Course Faculty: Steven Chessler (Medicine), Seth Field (Medicine), Karen Oegema (CMM), David Williams (Pharmacology), Huilin Zhou (CMM)
http://cmm.ucsd.edu/Lab_Pages/hamilton/BIOM201.html

Required Medical Student Courses:

CBB Core: Cellular and Molecular Basis of Disease
Course Directors: Marilyn Farquhar, Ph.D. and Deborah Spector, Ph.D.
CBB Core Cell Biology Course Syllabus in .PDF Format

Elective Graduate Courses:

CMM250 - Core course in Stem Cell Biology, Medicine, and Ethics
Course Director: Larry Goldstein, Ph.D.
Lectures and discussions on the basic, translational, and clinical elements of stem cell biology. Topics include identification, purification, and properties of stem cells; uses in animal models; clinical application to systems and diseases; ethical, economic, and social issues.
http://genome.ucsd.edu/cmm250/
Offered in Winter term

CMM251 - Laboratory course for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Course Director: Karl Willert, Ph.D.
Laboratory methods for research with hESCs; available lines, culture conditions; markers and karyotypes; thawing and plating; manual and enzymatic passaging; maintenance of hESCs and EBs; differentiation protocols; gene transduction; harvesting; infection; fixing and staining; feeding, confocal and automated microscopy.
Offered in Winter term

CMM252 - Current literature in Stem Cell Biology, Medicine, and Ethics
Course Director: Larry Goldstein, Ph.D.
This course explores in seminar format the latest literature in theory, research method, and clinical application of stem cell biology and medicine, with a strong emphasis on human embryonic stem cell approaches.
Offered in Spring term and Fall term

BIOM 240: Method & Logic in Biological Research

Method & Logic in Cell Biology Research, BIOM 240

Essentials of Glycobiology (BMS 222/CHEM 237/BIO 236/MED 225)
Course Director: Jeff Esko, Ph.D. and Ajit Varki, M.D./Ph.D.

Glycobiology Journal Club (MED 246)
Course Director: Jeff Esko, Ph.D.

Reading Group Workshop (SOM 204), Glycobiology and Medicine
Course Director: Jeff Esko, Ph.D.

Cancer Biology Journal Club (CMM 220)
Course Director: Steve Dowdy, Ph.D.

The Cancer Biology Journal Club is a student presentation format that focuses on and critically reviews a recent paper of importance in the broad field of cancer biology. Students will be expected to prepare a powerpoint presentation on the paper plus a 5-10 minute review of the field taken from a recent review(s) and/or prior publications from the paper's group. Students will be evaluated in a pass/no pass grading system. Students will be coached on their scientific speaking style with emphasis on speaking to the audience, avoidance of slang, correct use of laser pointer, etc.; however, students will not be graded on speaking style as this aspect of the course is intended to be a learning exercise.

Genetics Journal Club (BIOM 242)
Course Director: Bruce Hamilton, Ph.D.

Intended for graduate students interested in principles of classical and molecular genetics.Will attend weekly genetics seminar and participate in didactic/discussion preparatory session.