Collins Lab Blog

New course announcement

In recognition of the 2010 UN designated year of Biodiversity, the Field of Pharmacology at Cornell University offers a new course: “Biodiversity and Pharmacology”. This course will draw on recent progress in genetics and genomics to explore the applications of biodiversity to the discipline of Pharmacology. Lectures and case studies will examine how biodiversity enables the development of novel drugs, helps us to understand the molecular action of drugs, and how a patient will respond to a particular drug.

This course will be of particular interest to students in the Fields of Pharmacology, Genomics, and Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology and Microbiology. Topics covered will include pharmacogenomics, bioinformatics, ion channels, G protein coupled receptors, cancer and signal transduction, microbial biotechnology. The emphasis will be on general principles and students will deploy these approaches with assignments tailored to each student’s research interest.

Course details:

This is a 1-credit course. Graduate students majoring or minoring in Pharmacology may take this course in partial fulfillment of their Field course requirements after consulation with the Director of Graduate Studies and the student’s special committee. Classes will be given in C4-129 VMC starting in October.

Prospective students should contact the course director Ruth Collins (ruth.collins@cornell.edu) for additional information. The course is directed towards graduate students, suitably prepared undergraduates may also enroll with the permission of the course director.

Comments

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.