- From www.fun-mooc.fr
Cellular neurophysiology: how neurons communicate
- Free Access
- Free certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on October 2, 2017
- Ends on December 4, 2017
Course details
Syllabus
- Week 1: Ion gradients
- Week 2: Action potential
- Week 3: Neurotransmitter release
- Week 4: Glutamatergic synaptic transmission
- Week 5: GABAergic synaptic transmission
- Week 6: Postsynaptic integration
Prerequisite
We strongly recommend that you know essential concepts of cell biology (cell, membrane...) and a few basics of chemistry (ions, proteins...). We will review some principles, but this course is for people who have completed a year of college/university in a scientific field. It is even better if you know some physics (the notions of current, potential, resistance), but do note that we will use only two mathematical equations in this course.
Obviously, this training also requires you to be able to use a computer and the internet and that you have enough motivation and autonomy to complete it.
Instructors
Constance Hammond, Ph.D.
INSERM emeritus research director at INMED, in Marseille, Constance Hammond led a team interested in the basal ganglia. She also created the Tous chercheurs experimental center, where high school students and patients come to work just like researchers, under the supervision of researchers, in a fully-equipped research laboratory.
Isabelle Virard, Ph.D.
Passionate about teaching science, Isabelle Virard manages this MOOC and coordinates its technical support.
Editor
The University of Aix-Marseille or Aix-Marseille Université is a multidisciplinary French university created on 1 January 2012 by the merger of the three universities of Aix-Marseille existing previously, the University of Provence, the University of the Mediterranean and university Paul-Cézanne.
The campus of the University of Aix-Marseille, located predominantly in the cities of Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. Its headquarters are in Marseilles, Pharo.
Platform
France Université Numérique is the broadcaster of the online courses of French higher education institutions and their partners.
It operates several platforms of diffusion, of which the best known, FUN MOOC, is the first French-speaking academic platform worldwide. Thanks to many partner institutions, this platform offers a vast catalog of courses enriched daily with various themes and current events.