Courses

Anatomy & Cell Biology: An introductory course describing the biochemistry and molecular biology of selected key functions of animal cells, including: gene expression; mitochondrial production of metabolic energy; cellular communication with the extra-cellular environment; and regulation of cell division.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Winter
• Prerequisite: BIOL 200
• Restriction: This course is also listed as BIOC 212. Not open to students who have taken or are taking BIOC 212 or BIOL 201

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: Introduction to the gross anatomy of the various organ systems of head, neck and trunk regions of the human body. Emphasis on functional anatomy. Laboratory component includes exploration of the human body through cadaveric prosections, imaging and other materials.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Fall
• 2 hours lectures, 2 hours laboratory
• Prerequisites: BIOL 112 (or CEGEP equivalent), PHGY 209 and PHGY 210
• This course is limited in size, with guaranteed admission for all students enrolled in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. Students in other programs will be permitted to enroll as space allows.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: An introduction to light and electron microscopic anatomy in which cell and tissue dynamics will be explored in the principal tissues and organs of the body.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Fall
• 3 hours lectures, 2 hours laboratory
• Must be taken in U1 by students in Anatomy and Cell Biology programs
• Prerequisite: BIOL 112 or CEGEP equivalent
• Restriction: Open to students in biological sciences and others by special permission

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: The architectural, functional and temporal continuity of organelles and the cytoskeleton of mammalian cells is introduced as well as their functional integration in the phenomena of exocytosis, endocytosis, protein trafficking and cell motility and adhesion.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Winter
• 3 hours lecture
• Corequisites: ANAT 212 or BIOC 212 or BIOL 201
• Restriction: Open to students in biological sciences and others by special permission

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: Introduction to the gross anatomy of the musculoskeletal system (bone, joints, muscles and neurovascular structures) of the head, neck, trunk, upper and lower limb regions of the human body, emphasizing functional anatomy and including surface anatomy and imaging. Exploration of the human body through cadaveric prosections, imaging and other materials.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Winter
• Prerequisite: ANAT 214
• Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ANAT 315.
• 2 hours lectures, 2 hours laboratory

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: The regional human gross anatomy of the skeleton, joints, muscles and neurovascular structures of the body as it relates to physical and occupational therapists. Laboratories include the study of prepared cadaveric specimens and the completion of a cadaveric-dissection.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Fall
• 2 hours lectures, 2 hour laboratory
• Restriction: Open to students in Physical and Occupational Therapy and Kinesiology. Not open to students who have taken or are taking ANAT 314.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: The gross anatomy of the various organ systems of the human body, with emphasis on those aspects of greatest relevance to physical and occupational therapists. Laboratories include the study of prepared specimens.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Winter
• Two hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory
• Prerequisite: ANAT 315 or permission of instructor
• Restriction: Open to students in Physical and Occupational Therapy and Kinesiology. Not open to students who have taken or are taking ANAT 214.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: This course explores the functional organization of the human brain and spinal cord. The course focuses on how neuronal systems are designed to subserve specific motor, sensory, and cognitive operations.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Fall
• 3 hours lecture
• Prerequisites: ANAT/BIOC 212 or BIOL 201; and one of PHGY 209, NSCI 200 or PSYC 211; or permission of instructor

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: A lecture course describing brain-endocrine relationships. Emphasis on modern experimental evidence and conceptual developments within the field.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Winter
• 3 hours lecture
• Prerequisite: PHGY 210.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: This course will focus on the structural and functional relationships of the central nervous system. The human neuroanatomy will be introduced via pathological cases and will be illustrated by use of new medical imaging techniques.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Prerequisites for Physical & Occupational Therapy students: ANAT 315 and ANAT 316
• Prerequisites for Honours Anatomy & Cell Biology students: ANAT 214 and ANAT 314.
• Restrictions: Restricted to Honours Anatomy & Cell Biology students and Physical & Occupational Therapy students.
• Not open to students who have taken or are taking ANAT 321.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: This course explores the fundamental mechanisms that govern the organizations of intracellular membranes, how vesicle generation is signaled, how the membranes curve and bud, and how vesicles know where to go and fuse. In addition to intracellular vesicles, the principles of mitochondrial dynamics and process of cellular autophagy are examined. Also, there is a focus on "Applied Cell Biology", with respect to how the exquisite regulation of cellular transport plays a central role in complex biological systems. A series of modules will take students through the mechanisms of cellular polarity, neurotransmission, metabolic cell biology, pathogen invasion, and more. The emphasis is on the morphological aspects of the processes, and on the major techniques that led to discovery.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Fall
• 3 hours lectures
• Prerequisites: ANAT 261, ANAT 262, PHGY 209, or by permission of instructor

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: The basic processes of reproduction and embryonic development, such as molecular signaling; cell-cell interaction; differentiation; cell fate determination; genetic and epigenetic control of embryonic development.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Fall
• 3 hour lectures
• Prerequisites: ANAT 261, BIOL 202 or permission of instructor
• Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken BIOL 303.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: Independent research project with a final written report.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Restrictions: This course cannot be taken under the S/U option. Departmental permission required. Students cannot be supervised by the same instructor for two 396 Science courses. Open to students in programs offered by the Faculty of Science only.
• Note: Enrolment may be limited. Students are advised to start the application process well before the start of the term and to plan for an alternative course in the case that no suitable project is available. Individual projects may be suggested each term which may have project-specific prerequisites. Students may also approach professors to devise their own projects. Some projects may be accessible to students in other disciplines. See https://www.mcgill.ca/science/research/undergraduate-research/science-research-courses for more information about available projects and application forms and procedures

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: Importance of developmental biology for disease and regeneration. Topics: advanced developmental biology principles; molecular basis for stem cells and their potential applications; organogenesis and its applications to various diseases.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Winter
• 3 hours lecture
• Prerequisite(s): ANAT 381 or BIOL 303 or special permission of instructor

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: Supervised honours research project in biological sciences.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Prerequisite: BIOL 301
• Restriction: For students in the Honours program.
• Course opened to all Anatomy & Cell Biology students and other BSc students by special permission only.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: An integrated treatment of the properties of biological membranes and of intracellular signaling, including the major role that membranes play in transducing and integrating cellular regulatory signals. Biological membrane organization and dynamics; membrane transport; membrane receptors and their associated effectors; mechanisms of regulation of cell growth, morphology, differentiation and death.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Winter
• 3 hours lectures
• Prerequisites: BIOC 212 or ANAT 212 or BIOL 201, ANAT 262, one of PHGY 209 or BIOL 205; one of BIOC 312 or ANAT 365; BIOC 311 recommended
• Restriction: This course is also listed as BIOC 458. Not open to students who are taking or who have taken BIOC 458

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: Supervised exploration of the current scientific literature as it pertains to the advanced field of anatomy and cell biology.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Fall, Winter
• Prerequisites: ANAT 262 and BIOL 202
• Open to U3 Anatomy and Cell Biology students; open to other students with permission of instructor

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: A laboratory course exploring human anatomy education through regionally focused dissection-based projects and applications of technology in anatomy teaching and learning.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Prerequisites: ANAT 214 and ANAT 314
• Restrictions: Open to U3 Anatomy & Cell Biology students
• 1 hour lecture, 4 hours laboratory

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: Complex aging process, including theories and mechanisms of aging, animal model systems used to study aging, age-dependent diseases, for example, Alzheimer's, osteoporosis, and cancer, and age-related diseases, for example, Werner's syndrome and dyskeratosis congenita.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Winter
• 3 hours lecture
• Prerequisites: ANAT 212 (or BIOC 212 or BIOL 201), ANAT 261, ANAT 262, or permission of instructor.
• Corequisite: BIOL 301.

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: Overview of theory, principles and practical applications of conventional and cryo-transmission electron microscopy relevant to biological samples. Major topics to be covered include: sample preparation and imaging, image analysis, three-dimensional reconstruction (including single-particle analysis an tomography).

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor
• 2 hours lectures, 3 hours laboratory

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year

Anatomy & Cell Biology: This course will examine how research into diseases has played a key role in unraveling the intricate molecular mechanisms controlling membrane trafficking in mammalian cells. Membrane trafficking disorders fall into two groups those arising from a) membrane-associated or b) cytoskeletal defect. Topics include a) mechanisms of endosomal maturation, lysosomal storage disorders and rab protein-mediated vesicular trafficking and b) rho GTPase and cytoskeletal binding protein mediated trafficking associated with neurological diseases and cancer.

Offered by: Anatomy and Cell Biology

• Prerequisite: ANAT 365

• Terms
  • This course is not scheduled for the 2024 academic year
• Instructors
  • There are no professors associated with this course for the 2024 academic year