Professor: Vida Praitis praitis@grinnell.edu Assistant Professor of Biology Grinnell College, Science 1203, Grinnell, Iowa 50112 Phone: 641.269.4390; FAX: 641.269.4285 Office hours: by appointment

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  Grinnell College Biology 370.01 Fall 2001 (V. Praitis): What do cells do? How do they do it? What can go wrong?
  The course covers a select group of topics in cell biology, including cell division, cell architecture, protein folding, and others.
  
  The primary goal of the course is to gain an understanding of the experimental approaches used by cell biologists by reading the primary literature and performing experiments. Each topic we cover will include a discussion of the relevant background and an in-depth discussion of a classic, seminal or recent paper. For the laboratory portion of the class, we will use cell biology techniques to characterize a mutation in an unknown gene of C. elegans.
  

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