March 25, 2014
Announcing New Neuroscience Courses!
Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) 5194.03: Neuroengineering & Neuroprosthetics
Offered for the first time Autumn 2014!
This 3 credit course provides an overview of the broad field of Neuroengineering for graduate and senior undergraduate students with engineering or neuroscience backgrounds. Focusing on neural interfaces and prostheses, this course covers from basic neurophysiology and computational neuronal models to advanced neural interfaces and prostheses currently being actively developed in the field.
Course Topic List:
• Overview of Neuroengineering
• Neuroscience Basics
• Computational Neuronal Models
• Neural Interfacing Technologies
• Overview of Neuroprosthetics
• Brain Computer Interface
• Deep Brain Stimulation
• Retinal Prosthesis
• Functional Electrical Stimulation
• Optogenetics
• Neural Imaging
• Neural Tissue Engineering
• Regulatory and Ethic Issues
Neuroscience (Neuro) 5640: Neuronal Signal Transduction
Offered for the first time Spring 2015!
This 3 credit course will focus on the fundamental intracellular signaling events and transcriptional control mechanisms that shape CNS physiology and pathophysiology. Cellular signaling pathways will be functionality and mechanistically deconstructed and then placed within a relevant context (e.g., learning and memory, circadian timing, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease). Similar approaches will be used to describe the basic molecular mechanisms that regulate transcriptional and translational control mechanisms in the nervous system. This course is designed for students with a background in cellular and molecular neurobiology. By the end of the course students will have a deep understanding of the cellular signaling networks upon which CNS functionality is based.
Course topic list:
- Cell signaling
- Kinase & phosphatase overview
- Ionotropic & metabotropic receptors
- Calcium signaling and CaMK pathways
- cAMP-PKA, cGMP-PKG, NOS pathways
- RAS and ERK/MAPK signaling
- CREB and the CRE-transcriptional pathway
- Learning & memory
- Cell death: apoptotic, necrotic, autophagic pathways
- Neuroprotective signaling and transcriptional pathways: NRF-2, Sirtuins, NF-kB, AKT signaling
- Synaptic activity and gene transcription
- Inducible translation control: PI3K, mTOR, MNK signaling
- Chromatin structure and dynamic epigenetic regulatory mechanisms
- Non-coding RNA expression and function
- Scaffolding proteins, translation control, and activity-dependent structural plasticity
