Cellular Biology: Experimental Approaches to Cellular Processes and Molecular Medicine

Cellular Biology: Experimental Approaches to Cellular Processes and Molecular Medicine is a turn-key online course package that serves as an introduction and a guide to a student just starting to explore the fascinating world of the cell. It is well suited as a text for a quarter or semester long course taught to upper level biology undergraduates.

Cellular Biology includes coverage of membrane structure and function, protein trafficking between organelles, interactions between the cell and its environment, regulation of the cytoskeleton, the cell cycle, and intracellular signaling. In addition, it relates how the studied processes relate to human disease, including cancer, immune function, and bacterial infection.

Students using Cellular Biology learn how molecular machines function to regulate cellular processes; use the experimental approaches learned in genetics and biochemistry to understand how to dissect molecular and cellular pathways and regulatory mechanisms; appreciate the contributions of model systems, such as bacteria, yeast, flies, worms, mice, plants, and tissue culture cells, to our understanding of cellular processes important for health, agriculture, and industry; understand how defects in many cellular processes lead to diseases, including cancer, and how various pharmaceuticals target cellular processes; and ultimately become better citizens by understanding the promises and limitations of research in cell biology.

This package includes access to online electronic versions of the workbook and textbook.