Biology 445

Cancer Biology

Biology 445

Spring Semester, 2008
Tues, Thurs 2:00-3:15 pm
Wilson 128

Please print out all the pages to each lecture guide prior to class.

You will find them EXTREMELY helpful during class.

**Lecture Guides are in Adobe PDF files to keep the file size down. After downloading the file, use Adobe Acrobat to open it.


Date	Lecture	Lecture Outline	PowerPoint Lecture
1/10	1	Intro	Intro
1/15	2	Viral oncogenes- the story of Src	Src
1/17	3	Current thoughts about Src function Paper to read for 1/17 Notes to help in paper interpretation	See above
1/22	4	The road to Ras	Ras
1/24	5	Ras--A fly eye's view	See above
1/29	6	Ras in the worm Paper to read for 1/29 Notes to help in paper interpretation	See above
1/31	8	RTKs and Herceptin therapy	Neu-Herceptin
2/07	7	Cell Cycle in Model Organisms	Cell Cycle 1
2/12	9	Cell Cycle Control via CDKs	Cell Cycle 2
2/14	10	Growth Control and the Cell Cycle Paper to read for 2/14 Notes to help in paper interpretation	Growth
2/19	11	Tumor suppressors-the story of RB	RB
2/21	12	Current thoughts about RB function	E2F
2/26	13	Paper to read for 2/26 Notes to help in paper interpretation	see above
4/3	14	Guest lecture
4/8	15	Chromosomal rearrangements—abl and oncogenesis Paper to read for 4/8 Notes to help you with the paper	abl powerpoint
4/10	16	(continued from above) Paper for 4/10 Notes to help you with this paper	(continued from above)
4/15	17	The tumor suppressor APC Paper for 4/15 Notes to help you with this paper	APC powerpoint
4/17	18	Cell Cycle Checkpoints Paper to read for today Notes to help you with this paper	Cell Cycle Checkpoints
4/22	19	Tumor Suppressor-the story of p53	p53 Story
4/24	20	Paper to read for 4/24	p53 regulation

last revised 12-29-2007