Cellular Biology

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures, with all students, are based on presentations with simple texts and diagrams, graphs, etc., with the media support, with some  discussion groups of actual themes in cell biology.

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit has the purpose of providing the student a solid and updated knowledge of the cell as fundamental to understanding life processes, as well as providing a comprehensive view of "items" program highlighting the similarities of mechanisms operating in counterpoint to cell diversity.

Specific Skills:

1. Fundamental knowledge in the area of cell biology.

2. Recognize different levels of organization in living systems.

3. Evaluate metabolic activities.

4. Capacity to compile, synthesize, and communicate new information / ideas / problems concerning the organization and functioning cell.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Eukaryotic cell: General organization of the eukaryotic cell. Origin and evolution of intracellular compartmentalization. The binomial structure / cell function. Biomembranes and Structural and functional correlation between cellular compartments : significance of the processes of selection and distribution of macromoleculees (proteins). Cytoskeleton : structure and functions of microfilaments, intermediate filaments, microtubules, motor proteins, cilia , flagella , centrioles and basal bodies. Extracellular matrix: Chemical composition , structure and functions. Cell cycle and its control: Mitosis , meiosis, cytokinesis and cell death.   

Head Lecturer(s)

Armando Jorge Amaral Matias Cristóvão

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam (90-100 %) and Synthesis work (0-10 %): 100.0%

Bibliography

ALBERTS, B. & col. (2014) Essential Cell Biology. 4 th ed. New York: Garlang Science.

ALBERTS, B. & col. (2008). Molecular Biology of the Cell. 5 th ed. New York: Garlang Science.

AZEVEDO, C. (coord.), (2012). Biologia celular e Molecular. 5 th ed. Lisboa, Porto, Coimbra: Lidel.