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Teacher
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SCAPIGLIATI Giuseppe
(syllabus)
Biology and origin/evolution of life. The scientific experimental method. The macromolecules and their chemical evolution. Animal species and their origin. Mechanisms of evolution and use of phylogenetic data. Evolution of genes and genomes. Differential expression of genes during development. The animal cell: membranes, cytoplasm and organelles. Membrane trafficking. Communications and signaling. Receptors and coupling to transduction molecules. Mechanisms of signal transduction. Micro-RNAs: localization, stability and interactions. Genes: definition and constitution, RNAs, synthesis and replication of DNA and its control. Transcription and transduction. Protein synthesis. Genetic variability: origin and transmission. Specialization of animal cells: physiology and homeostasis, systems and apparatuses. Animal cells in culture: technologies of cell cultures. In vitro cell communities and their application: tissues, staminal cells. Cell factories. Synthetic cells. Comparative cellular and molecular immunology of animal species. Biodiversity as a source of biotechnological applications. Summary of biotechnology products from animal species.
(reference books)
G. Karp, Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare, quarta edizione, edizioni Edises
Alberts B., Johnson A., Lewis J., Raff M., Roberts K., Walther P. Biologia Molecolare della cellula, quinta edizione,. edizioni Zanichelli
Raven P.H., Johnsonn G.B., Mason K.A., Biologia Cellulare, Edizioni Piccin
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