WELCOME to CELL BIOLOGY 03-240

Alert: There was a typographical error in question 1.

The Not I recognition sequence is GCGGCCGC, not GCGGCGC.

Problem Set 2 Questions: JPEG images of figures for Q3 and Q4

Check out some 3D models!!!

The class average for TEST 1 was 65.85

The class average for TEST 2 was 75

Here are the answers to the first test.

Syllabus

Problem sets

  Lecture Figures: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

MONDAYWEDNESDAYFRIDAY
8/24 INTRODUCTION 8/26 Cell components 1: pp 37-608/28 Cell components 2: pp 60-73
8/31 Energy and catalysis 1: pp 77-949/2 Energy and catalysis 2: pp 94-1069/4 NO CLASS
9/7 NO CLASS9/9 Protein structure & function 1: pp 133-154 9/11 Protein structure & function 2: pp 154-166 
9/14 Protein structure & function 3: 166-1799/16 REVIEW SESSION9/18 TEST 1
9/21 NO CLASS9/23 Molecular Biology 1: pp184-1989/25 Molecular Biology 2: pp 212-224
9/28 Chromosomes 1: pp 245-2579/30 NO CLASS10/2 Chromosomes 2: 257-276
10/5 Chromosomes continued10/7 REVIEW SESSION10/9 TEST 2
10/12 NO CLASS10/14 Membrane Structure 1: 347-357 10/16 Membrane Structure 2: 357-369
10/19 Membrane Transport 1: 371-38510/21 Membrane Transport 210/23 Membrane Transport 3
10/26 Intracellular compartments 110/28 Intracellular compartments 210/30 TEST 3
11/2 Intracellular compartments 311/4 Intracellular compartments 411/6 Cell Communication 1
11/9 Cell Communication 211/11 Cell Communication 3 11/13 Cell Communication 4 
11/16 Cytoskeleton 111/18Cytoskeleton 2 11/20 TEST 4
11/23 Cytoskeleton 311/25 NO CLASS11/27 NO CLASS
11/30 Cell cycle 112/2 Cell cycle 212/4 SCIENCE FAIR

Some Important Facts:
Instructor: Dr. Jon Minden, Office: MI 279, Phone: x8-2669, E-mail: minden@cmu.edu
Teaching Assistants: Steve Jesch, Office: Mellon Institute 238, Phone: 8-8274, E-mail: sj2t+@andrew.cmu.edu
Heather Ziegler, Office: Mellon Institute 611, Phone: 8-5637, E-mail: hziegler+@andrew.cmu.edu
Server: Connect to BioServer in the Mellon zone under the AppleShare icon in the Chooser. The UserName is cellbio and the Password is 03240. Open the 03240 file.
Lectures: Porter Hall 100, MWF 11:30-12:20
Recitation: Porter Hall 125C, T 9:30-10:20. This an optional drop-in/help session.
Text: Essential Cell Biology by Alberts, Bray, Johnson, Lewis, Raff, Roberts, and Walter.