CAMB 518 Current Topics in Ion Channels

Director: Dr. Carol Deutsch

T/R 9:30 – 10:30 ~ 502 Richards

Course Description:

The course is a seminar format, specifically a journal club format, targeted to graduate students and MD/PhD students interested in ion channels.  It meets for one hour, once a week for graduate students and once every other week for the entire group with formal presentation.  On alternate weeks a faculty member meets with students to discuss and review the contents of each selected article for the subsequent week's presentation.  This is an elective course meant to excite and intellectually enlighten students regarding the latest advances in ion channel research.  It includes a wide range of ion channel

topics from basic biophysics, structure, and physiology to cell biology and clinical applications.  It is attended by faculty, students, and postdocs from the departments of Physiology, Pathology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Psychiatry.