Medicine and Surgery

LUCIA STEFANINI
LUCIA STEFANINI
LAURA STRONATI
LAURA STRONATI

Based on the attachments to Ministerial Decree no. 418 of May 30, 2025, the syllabus for this course is uniform nationwide and has the following general objectives:

The Biology course aims to provide students with a solid and integrated understanding of the fundamentals of biology, which is essential for understanding the physiological and pathological processes addressed in subsequent courses in the biomedical field.

The Biology course aims to provide students with a solid and integrated foundation in the fundamentals of biology, an essential foundation for understanding the physiological and pathological processes addressed in subsequent courses in the biomedical area.

Knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology is required, consistent with the preparation promoted by educational institutions that organize educational and teaching activities consistent with the National Guidelines for high schools and the Guidelines for technical institutes and vocational institutes.

- Structure and function of the main biological macromolecules
- Molecular basis of living matter
- Cellular organization and compartmentalization, intracellular traffic, and interactions between cells and the external environment
- Molecular and cellular mechanisms that regulate the expression and transmission of genetic and epigenetic information, identifying their implications in inherited
pathologies.
- The fundamentals of cellular communication and signal transduction, with particular attention to the control of cell proliferation and death, as well as the processes that regulate mitosis and meiosis in germ cells

BIOLOGY (SUGGESTED)
● Essenziale di Biologia molecolare della cellula. Alberts. Zanichelli
● Biologia molecolare della cellula. Alberts. Zanichelli
● La cellula un approccio molecolare. Cooper. Piccin
● Il mondo della cellula. Becker. Pearson
● Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare. Karp. Edises
● Biologia molecolare della cellula. Lodish et al., Zanichelli
● Molecole, Cellule e Organismi. Ginelli et al., Edises
● Biologia e genetica. De Leo, Fasano., Edises
● Manuale di Biologia e Genetica per il semestre filtro. Alessandro et al., Edises (in lavorazione


GENETICS (SUGGESTED)
● Genetica. Un approccio molecolare - VI edizione (2024) - Russel PJ - Pearson
● Genetica – II edizione (2016) - Pierce BA - Zanichelli
● Genetica. Principi di analisi formale - VIII edizione (2021) - Griffiths et al. - Zanichelli

Frontal lectures
Tutoring online

Attendance to 2/3 of the lectures is mandatory.

Written exam

The exam will be in italian.

• Teaching Unit 5. Cellular Structures: Biogenesis, Morphology, and Functions (teaching effortevaluated in CFU = 1.5)


• Teaching Unit 6. The Cell and the Environment, Cell Signaling, and Signal Transduction(teaching effort assessed as 0.75 credits)


• Teaching Unit 7. Control of Cell Proliferation and Survival (teaching effortvalued at 0.75 credits)