Courses
Upon admission, students are assigned a graduate advisor who guides them through the program's formal requirements. The student also chooses a major professor who serves as a mentor and later supervises the dissertation research. Students work with their major professor and graduate adviser to design a course of study that may include courses offered by other graduate programs or departments.
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MCP 210A. Advanced Physiology (5 units) An advanced course on general principles of physiology. Special emphasis on fundamental principles of cell physiology, transport physiology, physiology of excitable cells, signal transduction, muscle physiology, and neuronal signaling.
MCP 210B. Advanced Physiology (6 units) An advanced course on general principles of physiology. Special emphasis on neurophysiology, cardiovascular physiology, reparatory physiology, and renal physiology.
MCP 210C. Advanced Physiology (5 units) An advanced course on general principles of physiology. Special emphasis on neuro-endocrinology, reproductive physiology, gastrointestinal physiology, energetics and metabolism, and environmental and exercise physiology.
MCP 210L. Physiology Laboratory Rotations (5 units) Laboratory-15 hours. Each quarter is typically comprised of two 5-week rotations in laboratories of the student's choice. Two quarters of rotations are recommended; one quarter is mandatory. Fall offering of MCP 210L has a mandatory lunch seminar component.
MCP 211C (MCP 298). Advanced Physiology Companion Course (2 units) This is an active learning course focused on promoting critical, independent thinking, presentation skills development, and qualifying exam preparation. Based on the general principles of physiology and concepts covered in the basic cellular and systemic physiology course. Conception of a sci
MCP 211A (MCP 298). Advanced Physiology Companion Course (2 units) This is an active learning course where students will critically evaluate physiology research articles, identify key results relevant to conclusions, evaluate interpretations of results, and identify strengths and weaknesses of experimental approaches. Students will participate in critical scientific discussions, present physiology research in context, communication limitations in their understanding, pose scientific questions, and propose experiments.
MCP 211B (MCP 298). Advanced Physiology Companion Course (2 units) This course will build on the physiological principles and concepts covered in the basic cellular and systemic physiology courses (MCP 210A, B). The course will employ active learning techniques, promote independent learning, and help develop problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills. During the course reading material is assigned that exemplifies the current state-of-the-art experimental approaches to study physiological function and dysfunction of the major organ systems.
MCP 211C (MCP 298). Advanced Physiology Companion Course (2 units) This is an active learning course focused on promoting critical, independent thinking, presentation skills development, and qualifying exam preparation. It is based on the general principles of physiology and concepts covered in the basic cellular and systemic physiology course. Students will learn about the conception of a scientific hypothesis, an experimental plan development, rigor and reproducibility.
MCP 215. Electrophysiology Techniques and Applications (3 units) This course covers a broad scope of topics in electrophysiological techniques. The topics include principles of operations of amplifier, sources of noise, signal conditioning, laboratory setup, applications and protocols.
MCP 220. General and Comparative Physiology of Reproduction (3 units) Basic phenomena of sexual and asexual reproduction and comparisons of processes in a wide variety of animals; gamete formation, structure, and metabolism; fertilization; neuroendocrine mechanisms in maturation and reproductive cycles; behavioral aspects.
MCP 234 (ETX 234). Current Topics in Neurotoxicology (3 units) This course covers general principles as well as cellular and molecular mechanisms of neurotoxicity, health impacts of specific neurotoxicants and the contribution of neurotoxic compounds to complex neurodevelopmental disorders and neurodegenerative diseases. Didactic presentations will be followed by discussion of primary scientific articles from the relevant neurotoxicology literature.
MCP 255 (ABG 255). Stress Physiology (2 units) This course covers various aspects of stress physiology including definition of stress; physiological and evolutionary mechanisms of adaptions to stress; hormonal control of the systemic stress response; mechanisms of the cellular stress response; discussions of current trends in stress physiology; and current methods for studying the stress response.
MCP 290 (1 unit). Seminar Seminar. Discussion and critical evaluation of advanced topics and current trends in research. Topics differ by quarter.