Cellular Neurobiology: Stem Cell to Disease

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The nervous system is precisely organized to ensure that animals can react and learn from their environment. This task requires the coordination of numerous neural cell-types including but not limited to glial, immune, blood and neuronal cell populations. Coordinating these cells to make the mature nervous system requires such biological processes as intracellular signaling, cell-cell communication and cellular migration, proliferation and differentiation. Upon successful completion of this class, you will be able to describe how the single-cell zygote produces and organizes cells into a fully functional nervous system covering molecular and cellular events that contribute to such topics as neuronal differentiation, axon guidance, synaptogenesis, glial differentiation, glial ensheathment, immune cell production and brain-blood vessel development.