Elective List

Cell-to-cell communication and signaling mechanisms; signals and receptors, adaptor proteins, kinase and phosphatases, G protein signaling cascades, small GTP-binding proteins, phosphatidyl inositol signaling mechanisms- calcium signaling, signaling scaffolds and signaling between cascades, examples from signaling mechanisms such as Wnt, Notch, BMP etc; the role of signaling mechanisms in development and disease