2024 Faculty Courses School of Life Science and Technology Undergraduate major in Life Science and Technology
Cell Engineering
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Life Science and Technology
- Instructor(s)
- Shoen Kume / Junji Hirota / Yoh-Ichi Tagawa
- Class Format
- Lecture (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 7-8 Tue / 7-8 Fri
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- LST.A352
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2024
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Cell engineering involves the characterization and manipulation of cell functions with their application in life science research and regenerative medicine.The couse will cover the base and aplicaitons of celll engineering, combined with molecular cell biology, developmental biology and genetic engineering to establish fundamental understanting of property-function relationships and manipulation of cell properties to alter, maintain,restore or improve cell functions. This course will also give an overview of milestones of in vivo genetic engineering and stem cell researchs and expose students to current topics of these fields, in which techniques for cell engineering, live-imaging, gene-targeting, and stem cells engineering will be highlighted.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Understand how to ulitize cell and cell engineering technology.
2) Understand the principles and applications of cell fusion
3) Understand the principles and applications of transfection.
4) Understand the principles and applications of bioimaging techniques.
5) Establishes a solid base of generation of generically modified animals.
6) Understand stem cell biology including ES and iPS cells.
7) Uderstand the principles and applicaiton of stem cell for regenerative medicine
Keywords
Cell, Cell death, Proliferation, Aging, Immortalization, Cell fusion, gene expression, transfection, bioimaging, transgenic, gene-targeting stem cell, embryonic stem cell, iPS, regenerative medicine
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
In the first quater of the class, a summary of the previous lecture followed by the main points of the day’s lecture posed asquestions are given. Then, these main points are discussed in detail. Always check the required learning for each class and besure to complete them as part of preparation and review.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction to Cell Engineering 1 | Understand aims of this course. Stucent will be introduced to cell engineering and regenerative medicine. |
| Class 2 | Introduction to Cell Engineering 2 | Understand history and fundamantals of cell engineering, cell sources and stem cells. |
| Class 3 | Cell fusion | Understand principles of cell fusion and its application including production of a monoclonal antiboddy. |
| Class 4 | Genetic manipulation of mammalian cells | Students will be introduced to genetic manipulation of mammalian cells including designs of expression vector and various techniques of transfection. |
| Class 5 | Bioimaging | Understand principles and application of live imaging technology using genetically engineered fluorescent proteins. |
| Class 6 | Introduction to stem cells | Students will be provided with an overview of embryogenesis and embryonic stem cell. |
| Class 7 | Transgenesis | Understand principles and applications of generation of genetically engineered animals |
| Class 8 | Principle of Gene-targeting | Understand principles of gene-targeted animals, including knock-out / knock-in mice. |
| Class 9 | Application of gene-targeting techniques | Understand applications of conditional gene-targeting techniques of including Cre-loxP system, drug-induced gene egineering. |
| Class 10 | Stem cell biology and its appliaction | Students will be provided with an overview of pluripotent stem cells from embryonic stem cells to iPS cells. |
| Class 11 | Approaches for developmental biology | Understand genetic engineering and reprograming of stem cells and iPS cells. |
| Class 12 | in vitro differentiation of iPS cells | Understand base of cell differentiation and in vitro differentiation of iPS cells. |
| Class 13 | Cell transplantation and regenerative medicine | Students will be provided with an overview of current stem cell applications in regenerative medicine. |
| Class 14 | Modeling disease using iPS cells | Understand use of iPS and adult stem cells in modeling desease. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
None is required.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Molecular Biology of the Cell, 6th Edition (Bruce Alberts et al., Garland Science)
Biochemistry, 4th Edition (Donald Voet, Judith G. Voet, Wiley)
Evaluation methods and criteria
Assessment is based on the exams and/or reports at the end of each class.
Related courses
- LST.A203 ： Biochemistry I
- LST.A218 ： Biochemistry II
- LST.A208 ： Molecular Biology I
- LST.A213 ： Molecular Biology II
- LST.A406 ： Molecular Developmental Biology and Evolution
- LST.A336 ： Genetic Engineering
- LST.A342 ： Biomedical Materials
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Genetic Engineering is required.