Intracellular Trafficking

MCDB
435

Course Discipline

Biotechnology

Course Level

400

Course Credits

3

Term(s) Offered

Winter

Course Description

Topics covered include molecular basis of secretion, vesicle transport, protein targeting, molecular motors and organelle biogenesis. Students are presented lectures introducing them to current issues, and then read the latest experimental papers anticipated having a large impact in the field. The course includes critical discussions of the experiments, interpretations, and conclusions of primary research papers.