BIO 1404 “Cellular organization of life”

COURSE FILE

A short quiz to test your knowledge

LINK to SOCRATIVE

Please get to Socrative and log in as student. Get in the ROOM MOSCHOU and try get the quiz done.

Click here to see the biggest known unicellular organism

Check these out

Plant Cell walls
Euglena with chloroplasts
Membrane fluidity demonstration with optical tweezers
Centrosome functions
Dynamic microtubule instability
Actin dynamics
Optical trapping
FRAP
FRET
TIRFM

Animals with chloroplasts

https://umich.uloop.com/news/view.php/77109/4-incredible-photosynthetic-animals

LITERATURE

Coordination of Cell Polarity, Mechanics and Fate in Tissue Self-organization.

A mechanosensitive Ca2+ channel activity is dependent on the developmental regulator DEK1

Single‐cell damage elicits regional, nematode‐restricting ethylene responses in roots

Tricellular junctions: a hot corner of epithelial biology

A wall with integrity: surveillance and maintenance of the plant cell wall under stress

The plant cell wall integrity maintenance and immune signaling systems cooperate to control stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana

Can a biologist fix a smartphone?—Just hack it!

Can a biologist fix a radio?—Or, what I learned while studying apoptosis

Tricellular junctions: how to build junctions at the TRICkiest points of epithelial cells

Isolated nuclei adapt to force and reveal a mechanotransduction pathway in the nucleus

Sources

About Richard Feynman