Calendar

WEEK #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Background of Protein Misfolding and Disease
2	Origins of the Protein-only Hypothesis of Prions
3	Controversial Evidence against the Virus-hypothesis of Prion
4	Pathology of the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies
5	Structure of the Prion Protein
6	The Prion Species Barrier	Assignment 2 due
7	Detection of Prion Diseases in Humans and Animals
8	Alzheimer's Disease
9	Transmission Electron Microscopy: Field trip to TEM facility
10	Oligomeric Ring Structures in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease
11	Parkinson's Disease and α-synuclein
12	Polyglutamine repeats in Kennedy's and Huntington's Diseases
13	Senile Systematic Amyloidosis and Inflammation	Assignment 3 proposal due