Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand current and past legal, political and social issues related to regenerative medicine. This includes laws and regulations, but also an understanding of clinical ethics issues, translational research and commercialization, and emerging, novel techniques requiring careful ethical consideration.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Understand more about relations of science, the state, and public, particularly around controversial or novel innovations and will learn how best to address emerging controversies and public concerns ethically in their professional careers.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Learn the guidelines for the responsible conduct of research for stem cell science, where to access regulatory and oversight documents, and how to apply for research protocols with ethics oversight.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Gain analytical skills for addressing policy, legal and social issues through research and writing exercises. Analytical and professional presentation skills will also be learned through classroom interactions and discussion.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Appreciate the broad range of stem cell and regenerative medicine research and potential clinical applications
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Critically consider the current state of specific regenerative medicine applications
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Evaluate the ethical and public policy questions that stem cell research raises
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Identify and describe potential clinical applications of current stem cell and regenerative medicine research
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Apply the knowledge gained on current themes in stem cell and regenerative medicine to research in the field
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply knowledge of molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying normal and malignant blood cell development to understand biological and pathological processes.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Evaluate translational research approaches in hematology and how these approaches contribute to developing preventative and therapeutic strategies for blood diseases.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Integrate omic technologies and multi-disciplinary approaches to the hematopoietic system and extend these approaches to address diverse scientific problems.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Apply mechanistic and biological knowledge to design controlled experiments to discover mechanistic, biological, and pathological insights.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the characteristics of embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells, and adult stem cells from cardiac, blood, neural, endodermal, and vascular tissues
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Identify experimental technologies used to investigate stem cells
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Present scientific articles assigned by the instructor
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Moderate a scientific discussion among their peers
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Critique and discuss scientific articles
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Formulate hypotheses and propose experiments as future directions that could follow from the discussed articles
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe common biological principles of organogenesis and unique pathways for different organs
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe current experimental technologies used to investigate organogenesis
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Critically read, discuss, and summarize scientific articles
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Recognize and restate the hypothesis underlying a research article
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Give a formal scientific presentation
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Identify strengths and weaknesses of different experimental approaches
Audience: Graduate

7. Propose future experimental directions based on data presented
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop understanding of the main principles of cardiovascular physiology and biology, use of genetic model organisms, stem cell biology and regenerative medicine (didactic portion of course; attendance, and exams).
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Formulate the main themes of heart biology and current challenges for developing therapeutic strategies for heart disease by reading and discussing state-of-the-art literature with peers and instructors (journal reviews; evaluated by lecturer for each journal review session).
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Develop ability to Identify the main concepts of techniques and methods that are currently used for cardiac biology research
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Analyze scientific data and methodology employed in the field of heart biology.
Audience: Graduate

5. Create an experimental design for different types of heart biology research (such as hypothesis, methodology or phenomenon driven studies).
Audience: Graduate

6. Describe the current challenges for developing therapeutic strategies for heart disease and regeneration and propose feasible approaches to resolve these challenges.
Audience: Graduate

7. Explain the concepts of techniques and methods that are currently used for cardiac biology research.
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Describe the challenges for developing therapeutic strategies for heart disease and regeneration.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply, analyze, or evaluate advanced theories, concepts, or methods in cell and regenerative biology
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Identify and describe key theories, concepts, and methods in cell and regenerative biology
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Explore a new phenomenon or modality in cell and regenerative biology and apply the knowledge gained to research in the field
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply concepts learned in coursework to real life situations and settings
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Read, understand, and effectively search scientific literature
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Develop critical, analytical, and independent thinking skills
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically evaluate the primary literature underlying medical knowledge.
Audience: Graduate

2. Practice presentation and leading discussion of primary literature.
Audience: Graduate

3. Read the basic evidence underlying landmark discoveries and controversies in cancer biology.
Audience: Graduate

4. Understand how grant proposals are written and evaluated.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Ability to critically evaluate published scientific work (journal reviews).
Audience: Graduate

2. Ability to communicate critical evaluations professionally and articulately (lecturer and TA feedback at each session).
Audience: Graduate

3. Develop deep knowledge of developmental biology, use of genetic model organisms, stem cell biology and regenerative medicine (didactic portion of course).
Audience: Graduate

4. Improved presentation skills (each student has a scheduled presentation four times during the semester in addition to ad hoc participation).
Audience: Graduate

5. Skills in providing feedback to peers (through student evaluations peer presentations each class period).
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe common biological principles of organogenesis and unique pathways for different organs
Audience: Graduate

2. Describe current experimental technologies used to investigate organogenesis
Audience: Graduate

3. Critically read, discuss, and summarize scientific articles
Audience: Graduate

4. Recognize and restate the hypothesis underlying a research article
Audience: Graduate

5. Give a formal scientific presentation
Audience: Graduate

6. Identify strengths and weaknesses of different experimental approaches
Audience: Graduate

7. Propose future experimental directions based on data presented
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate the working principles of commonly used optical microscopes.
Audience: Graduate

2. Evaluate pros and cons of various imaging modalities and judiciously choose a modality which is well suited for a specific biological question.
Audience: Graduate

3. Interpret optical images and quantify image data to extract biologically relevant information.
Audience: Graduate

4. Develop clear, accurate, comprehensive data (image) presentation skills.
Audience: Graduate

5. Demonstrate understanding of image formats, metadata, and optical detectors.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Exhibit a broad understanding of general cell and regenerative biology principles.
Audience: Graduate

2. Conduct independent research using a variety of approaches.
Audience: Graduate

3. Think critically to address research challenges.
Audience: Graduate

4. Exhibit and foster professional and ethical conduct in their research.
Audience: Graduate

5. Collaborate with other investigators within or outside the thesis lab.
Audience: Graduate