Immunology - BIO307
Molecular Movies
Course Materials for Spring 2006
Immunology Syllabus for Spring
2006
Immunology Reading Schedule for
Spring 2006
Immunology Important Dates for
Spring 2006
Immunology Student Web
Pages
Immunology Standards for Web
Pages
Immunology Web Resources
(including old tests)
Chemokine Mini-lectures Online (courtesy of University of Stony Brook)
Molecular Movies - Flash Animations to help students learn immunology.
These movies require the Flash plug-in which is a free option
from Macromedia, and comes with browser (Netscape or IE) versions
4.5 or later. If you click on one of the animations, it will
search your computer to find the correct plug-in. If you do not
have it, it will provide you with a button for downloading the
correct plug-in, free of charge, or you may click here 
.
This work was funded in part by a Mellon Technology Fellowship from the Associated
Colleges of the South, and Davidson College's Faculty Summmer Support
program.
Awards for Molecular Movies
Selected as "Hot Site", Netwatch, 12 November,
1999.
Selected as HMS Beagle's "Web Pick of the Day"
30 November, 1999.
5 Star Rating MERLOT
web site, September, 2002.
Harvey Project to
advance the teaching of physiology. December, 2005.
Somatic Recombination
of a light chain to demonstrate how antibodies can bind to
so many different epitopes.
MHC I antigen loading
- shows how MHC class one molecules acquire their
antigens for presentation on the cell surface.
MHC II antigen loading
- shows how MHC class two molecules acquire their antigens for
presentation on the cell surface.
IP3 and Ca2+
ions as second messengers - shows how ligand binding to
a receptor initiates the production of IP3 and release
of Ca2+ ions from the ER.
B Cell Maturation
- shows intracellular and extracellular interactions that
illustrate the maturation stages of B cells in the bone marrow.
Activation of B Cells
with Thymus-Independent (TI) Antigen - shows the role
of the B cell receptor and coreceptor when challenged with a bacterial
or viral anitgen that has many copies of a single epitope.
B Cell Selection
- shows how B cells that bind to self-antigen are removed
from the repertoire of B cells with randomly generated binding
specificities. Also shows that non-reactive B cells are permitted
to enter general circulation.
T Cell Selection
- this series of animations shows T Cell development, Positive
Selection, and Negative Selection. The viewer can choose which
process he or she wants to see. The animations were created by
and generously donated to Davidson College by Dr.
Victor Lemas of BioCreations.
MAPK - an animation which shows how cell surface receptors lead to gene activation. This pathway is called the MAP Kinase pathway. The animation was created by and generously donated to Davidson College by Dr.
Victor Lemas of BioCreations.
RT-PCR - shows how the method
of reverse transcriptase-PCR is performed and some sample data
are produced.
If you cannot see the animation listed above after you have clicked
on their links, click on the "Get Shockwave" button
and download the FREE Shockwave Flash Plugin.
Introduction
This is the Hyperlinked
Human Histology (HHH)
Home Page. This is being developed for students to use when they
want to tie together the micro and the macro of immunology. For
example, in immunology classes, students learn about the proteins
involved in T cell responses, but lose sight of where this happens
in the body.
Directions
Click here
to enter HHH. Soon there will
be a human image that will allow the user to pass the mouse over
an organ and click on that organ to zoom in for histological
perspectives. The user will see images with blue
boxes which are hot spots that are hyperlinked to higher
magnifications. To go back to lower powers, just click on the
image outside of the blue boxes to zoom out.
In case you cannot see the Flash image, you can click on the
five links below to skip the Flash image.
List of organs
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