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Goal: For advanced and highly motivated high school students with background in biology and chemistry to learn fundamentals of nervous system function and development. This information will provide context for discussion of research of central nervous system repair and regeneration.
Faculty, Post-docs and Grad students present lectures, discussion groups and lab tours to illustrate how the nervous system functions, develops and responds to injury. Lab sessions give hands-on experience with anatomy, biochemistry and physiology of the nervous system. |
Typical Schedule: |
Week One
Monday
1:00 Introduction to the Nervous System
2:00 Neuroanatomy lab
Tuesday
1:30 Electrical Communication
2:30 Synaptic Communication
3:30 Visit electrophysiology lab
Wednesday
1:30 Cockroach Neurophysiology Lab
Thursday
1:30 Synaptic communication gone bad
2:30 Development: The Big Picture
3:30 Stem cells
Friday
1:30 Proliferation
2:30 Migration of neurons and glia
3:30 Quiz on Lectures
Week Two
Monday
1:30 Neuronal polarity, axonal transport
2:30 Western Blot Lab I
Tuesday
1:30 Axon guidance
2:30 Western Blot Lab II
Wednesday, July 4th University Holiday, Independence Day
Thursday
1:30 Neuronal target selection, retinotectal system
2:30 Review
3:30 Visit Dan Liebl lab
Friday
1:30 Quiz on Lectures 10-14
2:00 Synapse formation: The neuromuscular junction & CNS
3:00 Traumatic Brain Injury - lecture and lab visit
Week Three
Monday
1:30 Spinal Mechanisms underlying Movement.
2:30 Visit Edelle Field-Fote lab
3:30 Cell survival - growth factors, apoptosis
Tuesday
1:30 Synapse elimination, visual cortex
2:30 Review
3:30 Visit Vittorio Porciatt lab in Ophthalmology
Wednesday
1:30 Axonal regeneration, Cajal, Aguayo, Schwab, Silver
2:30 Visit Bunge/Wood lab
3:30 library
Thursday, July 12
Presentations of research papers V Lemmon
Quiz on lectures 15-19 |
