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Jan 18
Introduction
Jan 20 Overview of chemotaxis
Jan 25 Discovery of chemoreceptors
Jan 27
Discovery of flagellar rotation
Group
1
Feb 1 Gradient sensing and chemotaxis
Group
2
Feb 3
Transmembrane signaling in a chemoreceptor
Group 3
Feb 8
Signaling through a dimer
Group 4
Feb 10
Cytoplasmic signaling pathway: CheA
Group 5
Feb 15 Regulation by phosphorylation: CheB Group
6
Feb 17 Regulation by phosphorylation:
CheY Group
7
Feb
22
Review
Feb 24 Test 1
Mar 1 Chemoreceptor
clustering
Mar 3 No class:
watch
NOVA
"Judgement
Day-Intelligent Design on Trial"
+ see
reading assignment
Mar 8 Trimer-of-dimers
Mar 10 Clustering & Adaptation
SPRING BREAK
Mar 22
Morphogenetic signals:
Flagella assembly
Mar 24
: Length
control
Mar 29 Surface
(?) signals :
Swarming in
Vibrio/Salmonella
Mar 31
:
Retractile motility in
Pseudomonas /Myxococcus
Apr 5
Review
Apr 7 Test
2
Apr 12 Cell density signals
:Quorum sensing
(Social Cheating)
Apr 14 No
class:
Watch
BBC
"Nice Guys Finish First" (1987)
+ see
reading assignment
Apr 19
:Quorum sensing (sRNA)
Apr 21
:Quorum sensing (Biofilms)
Apr 26
:Paracrine signaling (Biofilms)
Apr 28 c-di-GMP signals :
Caulobacter
development (Ejecting flagella)
May 3
:
E. coli/Salmonella chemotaxis (Braking the motor)
May 5
Test 3
Key
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