Selected Chapters of Cell Biology

2025/2026

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Department of Fundamental Mathematics (Faculty of Informatics, Mathematics, and Computer Science (HSE Nizhny Novgorod))

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 2 module

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course "Selected Chapters in Cell Biology" covers key aspects of cell biology, focusing on the specificity of cells from various groups of eukaryotes, characteristics of membrane structure and function, intercellular signaling processes, thermodynamic foundations of life, regulation of the cell life cycle, mechanisms for storing and implementing genetic information, as well as the perception of physical fields and radiation by living organisms.

Learning Objectives

• The purpose of the course is to gain knowledges of the cell biology

Expected Learning Outcomes

• A student knows main types of cells, main organoids of cells, their functions.
• A student knows main types of cells signaling, types of receptors and reaction times.
• A student knows definition and conditions of homeostasis, metabolic map, Gibbs energy, ways ud energy transformation. A student knows about mathematical modeling in bioenergetics
• A student knows main oscillating processes in organisms and cells, base of synthetic biology.
• A student knows a modern ideas about the mechanisms of the emergence of new genes
• A student knows principle of perception of electromagnetic waves of the radio frequency range by organisms, the risks of EM pollution of the environment

Course Contents

• Introduction. Cells.
• Reception and signalization
• Life is living
• The cycle of life
• Genomics and Epigenomics
• Perception of physical fields and radiation

Assessment Elements

• Modern approaches and existing projects/platforms for mathematical simulation of the hole cell
• Final Test
• Base

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 2nd module
  0 * Base + 0.5 * Final Test + 0.5 * Modern approaches and existing projects/platforms for mathematical simulation of the hole cell

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• 9781284104516 - Jocelyn E. Krebs; Elliott S. Goldstein; Stephen T. Kilpatrick - Lewin's GENES XII, 12th ed. - 2017 - Jones & Bartlett Learning - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=1491538 - nlebk - 1491538
• Author(s Harvey Lodish, Arnold Berk, Chris A. Kaiser, Monty Krieger, & Publisher W. H. Freeman. (2006). Text Book(s) Title Molecular Cell Biology. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.701535BE
• Cell biology : a short course, , 2022
• Cell signalling, Hancock, J. T., 2017
• Molecular cell biology, , 2016
• Review questions on cell biology and genetics for students : учебно-методическое пособие / N. S. Abdukaeva, N. S. Kosenkova, Т. I. Gracheva [и др.]. — Санкт-Петербург : СПбГПМУ, 2019. — 32 с. — ISBN 978-5-907065-95-6. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/174468 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• 9781439848890 - Eren, Halit; Webster, John G. - Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook : Spatial, Mechanical, Thermal, and Radiation Measurement, Second Edition - 2016 - CRC Press - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=694516 - nlebk - 694516
• Genes and the agents of life : the individual in the fragile sciences, biology, Wilson, R. A., 2005

Authors

• Stankevich Nataliia Vladimirovna
• Bagaev Andrei Vladimirovich