LMP1103H: Tissue injury, repair and regeneration

Who can attend

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course description

This seminar/reading and conference course is an interactive course designed to provide graduate students a basic understanding of tissue injury, repair and regeneration processes in major body tissues. Each week, we will invite a leading guest speaker to present a seminar on their respective field of research related to tissue injury, repair and regeneration. The Invited Speaker will present a seminar on his/her research for 45-min followed by an in-depth discussion on two papers assigned by the Guest Speaker. In addition to discussing the papers, the speaker and students will discuss the 2 written questions that each student submitted prior to lecture time. 

A total of two hours will be dedicated to each session, which will include the seminar by the Guest Speaker and a detailed discussion of an assigned paper and submitted questions, led by the Guest Speaker.  There will be 6 lectures (2 hours).  

Course coordinators

Dr. Mohit Kapoor
mohit.kapoor@uhnresearch.ca

Dr. Sowmya Viswanathan
Schroeder Arthritis Institute, Krembil Research Institute (University Health Network) and Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and at the Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

lmp.grad@utoronto.ca for administrative queries.

Timings and location

This course is offered every year in the Fall session.

Tuesdays 10 am – 12 pm

Location: Synchronous online delivery (Zoom)

Evaluation methods

Attendance (20%)

• Total - 20 marks
• Students are required to be in attendance for all 6 lectures 

Class participation (30%)

• Total – 30 marks for six classes (5 marks each)
• Students are required to submit:
  • at least two written questions and
  • participate in the discussion on the paper that follows the guest lecture

Term paper (50%)

Due date: Nov 15, 2022

• Total - 50 marks
  • Abstract: 6 marks
  • Introduction: 6 marks
  • Methods: 6 marks
  • Results: 12 marks
  • Discussion including references: 20 marks

Schedule