Teaching
Undergraduate Courses
ETX 10. Introduction to Environmental Toxicology (3 units)
Various Quarters
Course Description: Hazardous substances, their effects on humans and their actions and movement in the environment. Emphasis on substances of current concern and science literacy.
ETX 140. Genes & The Environment (3 units)
Spring Quarter
Course Description: In the postgenomics era, we realize that genetic sequence is not the sole explanation for health and disease. This course explores the possibility that this is due to complex interactions between genes and the environment and our susceptibility to these interactions. We focus on cancer, as well as metabolic, cardiovascular, and neurological health outcomes as assessed by genotoxicity and toxicogenomic methods.
Graduate Courses
GGG 201A - Advanced Genetic Analysis (5 units)
Fall Quarter
Taught by Drs. Segal and Bannasch, with guest lecture on mouse models for genetic analysis of human disease by Dr. La Merrill
Course Description: Fundamentals of genetic analysis and chromosome structure using model organisms including mutation, transmission, complementation, suppression, and enhancement as well as epigenetic phenomena at the whole organism and molecular levels.
PTX 203 - Principles of Pharmacology and Toxicology (4 units)
Spring Quarter
Taught by Drs. Lein and Geller, with guest lecture on chemicals contributing to metabolic syndrome by Dr. La Merrill
Course Description: Integrated physiological systems, cardiovascular and nervous systems and how drugs and toxicants act to perturb function.
NUT 253 - Control of Energy Balance and Body Weight (3 units)
Spring Quarter
Taught by Drs. Havel and Ramsey, with guest lecture on chemicals contributing to obesity by Dr. La Merrill
Course Description: Comprehensive study of the biochemical, nutritional and physiological mechanisms controlling food intake, body composition and energy expenditure.
EPI 272 - Cancer Epidemiology (2 units)
Winter Quarter
Taught by Rosemary Cress, with guest lecture on gene x environment interaction in cancer epidemiology by Dr. La Merrill
Course Description: We will cover the underlying concepts essential to understanding cancer epidemiology, such as trends in incidence and survival, epidemiologic methods used to assess cancer etiology, prevention and control, and an introduction to the cancer initiation and progression multi-stage model.
