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Lecture providing basic principles in ion channel function, physiology research techniques

Topics, lecturers:

1. Cellular excitability (Flucher) 

2. Synaptic transmission (Vogl) 

3. Endocrine cells and hormone release (Tuluc) 

4. Excitation-contraction coupling (Campiglio)

5. Disease genetics (Ortner)

6. Vision / hearing (Koschak)

7. Calcium in cell differentiation and survival (Meyer)

Ion channels in cellular functions

oral examination

The CavX I core lecture on ion channels in cellular functions is held as a combination of lectures, reading assignments, and paper presentations. The 6 individual topics will be presented by faculty members in 2h lectures. Finally, each student will briefly present 2 papers from 2 different topics. Please find dates and times of the lectures below, room allocations will be announced in due time. The meetings for the paper presentations will be individually arranged together with the respective lecturer.

 Summary:

• 7x2h lecture series by the faculty members, max. 7additional meetings for paper presentations

• 14 papers to be read by each student, 2 papers presented