2) Course summary of topics to be covered and tentative Lecturers. Date Session Topics Faculty Week 1 8/23 Structure and function of mitochondria C. Leeuwenburgh Week 2 8/30 Mitochondrial bioenergetics and aging Russ Hepple Week 3 9/6 Mitochondria and eye disease John Ash Week 4 9/13 Mitochondria and hearing loss Shinichi Someya Week 5 9/20 Mitophagy Jonathon Burman Week 6 9/27 Mitochondria in heart disease Christina Pacak Week 7 10/4 Mitochondria: replication, import, Al Lewin mutation, and deletion Week 8 10/11 Mitochondrial genetic diseases Al Lewin Week 9 10/18 Mitochondrial dynamics Jonathon Burman Week 10 10/25 Midterm Christiaan Leeuwenburgh Week 11 11/1 Assessments of mitochondrial function by Steffi Wohlgemuth respirometry: Part 1 Week 12 11/8 Assessments of mitochondrial function by Steffi Wohlgemuth respirometry: Part 2 Week 13 11/15 Assessment of mitochondria by Sung Min Han microscopy: Principle and theory of optical assessment and hands-on Week 14 11/29 Part 2 Microscopy hands-on Sung Min Han Evaluations/Pre-Review Final Jonathan Burman Week 15 12/6 Final Jonathon Burman Christiaan Leeuwenburgh 3) Text: No text is required. Weekly assigned scientific journal articles will be used for reading, presentation and discussion material. Specifically, on a weekly base, original research papers will be presented from Journals with a high impact Factors such as Cell, Nature, Science, Neuron, PNAS, JCB, JBC, and JCI on topics to be presented for that week. Original research papers will be selected by the Professors and publications will be selected from papers published in the past year.
2) Course summary of topics to be covered and tentative Lecturers. Date Session Topics Faculty Week 1 8/23 Structure and function of mitochondria C. Leeuwenburgh Week 2 8/30 Mitochondrial bioenergetics and aging Russ Hepple Week 3 9/6 Mitochondria and eye disease John Ash Week 4 9/13 Mitochondria and hearing loss Shinichi Someya Week 5 Week 6 9/20 9/27 Mitophagy Mitochondria in heart disease Jonathon Burman Christina Pacak Week 7 10/4 Mitochondria: replication, import, mutation, and deletion Al Lewin Week 8 10/11 Mitochondrial genetic diseases Al Lewin Week 9 10/18 Mitochondrial dynamics Jonathon Burman Week 10 10/25 Midterm Christiaan Leeuwenburgh Week 11 11/1 Assessments of mitochondrial function by respirometry: Part 1 Steffi Wohlgemuth Week 12 11/8 Assessments of mitochondrial function by respirometry: Part 2 Steffi Wohlgemuth Week 13 11/15 Assessment of mitochondria by microscopy: Principle and theory of optical assessment and hands-on Sung Min Han Week 14 11/29 Part 2 Microscopy hands-on Evaluations/Pre-Review Final Sung Min Han Jonathan Burman Week 15 12/6 Final Jonathon Burman Christiaan Leeuwenburgh 3) Text: No text is required. Weekly assigned scientific journal articles will be used for reading, presentation and discussion material. Specifically, on a weekly base, original research papers will be presented from Journals with a high impact Factors such as Cell, Nature, Science, Neuron, PNAS, JCB, JBC, and JCI on topics to be presented for that week. Original research papers will be selected by the Professors and publications will be selected from papers published in the past year.
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