Signal Transduction VL-AP BIO

Students will work through 3 topics.

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Topic 1:

What you’ll learn: 

-How to identify the general components and events of signal transduction

-How the components and events of signal transduction play out at both the macroscopic and microscopic levels

Your task is to: 

Learn how the general components and events of signal transduction are like the game pool, and how they work in the fight/flight response

Topic 2:

What you’ll learn:

-Some key properties of intracellular signal transduction such as specificity, amplification, translocation and negative regulation

-How components of olfactory signal transduction in a female mosquito reflect the above four properties

-How an extracellular signal molecule can initiate intracellular signal intracellular signal transduction

Your task is to:

-Observe how a bloodthirsty female perceives and responds to swear from a human arm

Topic 3:

What you’ll learn in this topic:

-The normal mechanism of estrogen signal transduction

-Possible molecular processes leading to endometriosis

Your task is to:

-investigate signal transduction mechanisms leading to endometriosis