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The Physiology Course has a rich history, dating back to 1892, of training the leaders in biology and generating Nobel Prize experiments. However, this is not your grandfather’s Physiology Course! This intensive laboratory course has been revamped to meet the new challenges in biology by providing a unique interdisciplinary training environment at the interface between cellular and computational biology. The Physiology Course will bring together biological and physical/computational scientists, both in the faculty and the student body, to work together on cutting-edge problems in cell physiology. Students will learn from leaders in the field of cellular physiology, microscopy, and computational analysis. Students with backgrounds in both the biological and physical/computational sciences are encouraged to apply.
The course design will promote learning by practice, with a particular emphasis on stimulating experimental creativity and interdisciplinary approaches. Biology students will leave the course able to understand and author computer simulations, and physical science students will leave understanding the language of biology, and with experience working on cutting edge biological problems. Students will participate in three research threads (cell division, cell migration, and signaling) that will run through the whole course. Each thread will intensively use microscopy, biochemistry, and computational analysis to address research problems in a highly collaborative setting. State-of-the-art microscopes, as well as other advanced equipment, will be available. It is anticipated that these threads will lead to research discoveries, as well as providing learning opportunities. Post course research opportunities exist for selected students.
To inspire students, and provide them with a sense of the history and future of cell physiology, a visiting scholar program has been established. This program brings four eminent scientists to the MBL for a week. They deliver one or more lectures to the entire community, and participate in both the intellectual and experimental aspects of the course.
This course receives partial support from NIH, the Burroughs Welcome Fund, and the Bauer Center for Genomics Research at Harvard University.
2007 Faculty & Lecturers:
Bruce Alberts, University of California, San Francisco
Eric Betzig, Janelia Farm Research Campus
William Bialek, Princeton University
Michael Brenner, Harvard
Joan Brugge, Harvard Medical School
Marileen Dogterom, FOM Institute AMOLF
Christine Field, Harvard Medical School
Arthur Horwich, Yale School of Medicine
Anthony Hyman, MPI-CBG
Frank Julicher, MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems
Eric Karsenti, EMBL
Susan Lindquist, Whitehead Inst. for Biomedical Research
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, NICHD, National Institutes of Health
Gavin MacBeath, Harvard University
Thomas Müller-Reichert, Max Planck Inst. of Mol. Cell Biology
Dyche Mullins, UCSF
Edwin Munro, University of Washington
Garrett Odell, University of Washington
Erin O'Shea, HHMI/Harvard University
Carl Pabo, Harvard Medical School
Rob Phillips, Caltech
Pardis Sabeti, MIT
Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School
Nico Stuurman, UCSF/HHMI
Alice Ting, MIT
Clare Waterman, National Institutes of Health
Watt Webb, Cornell University
David Weitz, Harvard University
Eric Wieschaus, Princeton University
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