Dr. Pankaj Mehrotra
Advanced Biological Sciences

Course Details

In this course students will advance their conceptual understanding of biology, enhance knowledge, and reinforce & further advance skills in interdisciplinary fields of sciences - biology, physics, chemistry, environmental science and STEM. This advanced biological science course presents students with advanced biology topics - organization of living & non-living things to adapt to changing environment, biomolecules in everyday life, cellular processes with organisms, understand the biological genetic variation in organisms, central dogma of molecular biology, biotechnology & its application to environment & organisms, organization of body systems & how living & non-living things adapt to external environment. Students will learn through synchronous teaching - text, images and videos , with integration of learning activities, simulations & virtual labs, project based learning - collaborative skills and assessment will be both formative & summative.

Ecology Diseased Cell Types Medical Genetics Plants & Microbes Ecological Interactions of Organisms New Advancement Tools Development Biology Evolving Genomics 3D Structure in Medicine Molecular Biology Anatomical Structures Pathogens Biochemistry Anatomy Physiological Processes Diagnostic Tools Molecular Interactions of Proteins Physiology Cellular Development Immunology Nll Type Molecular Anatomy Genome Evolution Biological Risk Reduction

This advanced biological science course presents students with advanced biology topics - organization of living & non-living things to adapt to changing environment, bio molecules in everyday life, cellular processes with organisms, understand the biological genetic variation in organisms, central dogma of molecular biology, biotechnology & its application to environment & organisms, organization of body systems & how living & non-living things adapt to external environment. Students will learn through synchronous teaching - text, images and videos , with integration of learning activities, simulations & virtual labs, project-based learning - collaborative skills and assessment will be both formative & summative.

 

This course will construct advanced knowledge and skills on various scientific discipline:

Ecology - ecological interactions of organisms in various biomes, biochemistry - molecular interactions of proteins, structural biology of interactome and their diversity in various organisms, application & importance of 3D structure in medicine,

Cell biology - exploring components of a cell and understanding cell physiology of various cell types, role of single cell genomics in medicine,

Molecular biology - exploring central dogma of molecular biology in normal cell types & diseased cell types, new advancement tools, instrumentation & techniques in hands-on & virtual classes.

Anatomy & physiology - structure & function of invertebrate & vertebrate biology then connecting it to molecular anatomy and physiology including scientific connections to medical genetics.

Development biology - embryology - evolution & development of organisms, understand the role of development biology in controlling anatomical structures & physiological processes, signaling within the cell and its fate in cellular development,

Genetics- genome evolution, understand the expression of genome in animals, plants & microbes and how it regulated diversity, how scientific research and new evolving genomics is helping us to understand the diversity & evolution of pathogens & how we able to create diagnostic tools & genetic medicines by integration of bio-informatics,

Immunology - Innate & passive immune system, immunology of parasitic, viral, fungal, bacterial diseases , diagnostic tools in immunology, scientific advanced in understanding pathogens.

Biological risk reduction - procedures to regulate the spread of infections with special focus on COVID-19., adverse events, blood borne pathogens and CDC-Project First Line.

Lessons

1
L01C01

Organization of atoms, elements and molecules to biomolecules

2
L01C02

Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome and biosphere

3
L01LAB01

Synchronous laboratory

4
L02C01

Cellular components and structure

5
L02C02

Cellular metabolism, photosynthesis & respiration and cell signalling

6
L02LAB01

Virtual labs - Photosynthesis & cell energy and Carolina Biotech hands-on learning

7
L03C01

Mitosis, Meiosis, Mendelian Genetics and Inheritance

8
L03LAB01

Virtual lab on Heredity and hands-on-learning lab by Carolina Biotech

9
L04C01

Structure of DNA, Central dogma of molecular biology and Biotechnology

10
L04LAB01

Virtual lab on Gel Electrophoresis, Gene expression, PCR and Hands-on learning from Carolina Biotech

11
L05C01

Speciation, Genus, Species and Phylogenetic tree

12
L05C02

Microbial diversity, invertebrate diversity and vertebrate diversity

13
L05LAB01

Virtual laboratory - Phylogenetic Tree construction and HMMI-Biointeractive hands-on learning

14
L06C01

System of organism- Anatomical and Physiological systems of human body

15
L06C02

Immune response and adverse events

16
L06LAB01

Virtual immunology lab and hands-on learning from Carolina Biotech