Universiteit Utrecht (UU) • Biologie

Concise, lecture‑based summary of Week 4, covering the physical principles underlying cellular behaviour, oxygen‑dependent regulatory pathways in plant development, and organelle organization in neurons. Ideal for rapid revision of biophysical modelling of cytoskeletal and cellular processes, hypoxia signalling and stress responses, and the dynamic architecture of neuronal organelles such as mitochondria, ER and endosomes.

Concise, lecture‑based summary covering Week 2-3 of the course. Includes core concepts from Agathe Chaigne on mitotic and cytokinetic dynamics, Frederik Verweij on extracellular vesicle biogenesis and trafficking, Anne Rios on organoid‑based human cancer immunity models, Emmanuel Marquez Legorreta on whole‑brain circuitry underlying innate fear responses, and Ting‑Feng Lin on calcium imaging approaches to study neural plasticity. Ideal for rapid revision of cell division mechanics, EV bi...

Compact, lecture‑based summary of Week 1, covering Anna Akhmanova’s Cytoskeleton and Regulation of Microtubule Dynamics lectures, and Lukas Kapitein’s Cytoskeletal Motor Proteins. Ideal for rapid revision of actin and microtubule architecture, polymerization kinetics, dynamic instability, +TIP recognition, motor protein mechanisms (kinesin, dynein, myosin), and the molecular logic that drives intracellular transport, cell division and cytoskeletal organization.

Compact, exam‑focused summary of Week 2 covering fluorescence principles, photophysics, fluorophores, sample preparation, fixation and labeling strategies, confocal imaging, optical sectioning, and key exercises/seminar insights.

Compact, exam‑focused summary of HC07-HC09, exercises and seminars. Covers super‑resolution methods (STORM, PALM, STED, SIM), live‑cell imaging principles, phototoxicity control, modality choice, detectors, environmental stability and practical troubleshooting.

Compact, exam‑focused summary of HC10-12 and the tutorial. Ideal for quick revision of EM principles, TEM/SEM/cryo‑EM workflows, tomography vs SPA, CLEM strategies, sample prep, contrast mechanisms, radiation damage, and choosing the right EM technique.

Compact, exam‑focused summary covering HC01-03 and exercises. Ideal for quick revision of light properties, basic optics (Snell, lenses, NA, resolution), and core contrast methods including brightfield, phase contrast, DIC and fluorescence imaging.

Compact, exam‑focused summary of the Week 6-8 lectures, tests and tutorials, covering all core concepts. Ideal for quick revision of enhancer biology, chromatin marks, eRNA function, enhancer‑promoter looping, comparative genomics, evolutionary mechanisms of regulatory change, transcription factor duplication, Polycomb/Trithorax systems, bivalent chromatin and DNA methylation within Gene Regulation.

Compact, exam‑focused summary of the Week 3-4 lectures, tests and tutorials, covering all core concepts. Ideal for quick revision of lambda‑phage lysis/lysogeny control, operator logic, cooperativity, long‑range interactions, RecA‑mediated switching, synthetic gene circuits, autoregulation, feed‑forward loops and fundamental gene regulatory network motifs.

Compact, exam‑focused summary of the Week 1–2 lectures, tests and tutorials, covering all core concepts. Ideal for quick revision of genome organization, promoter architecture, sigma‑factor recognition, operators, activators/repressors, the Lac operon, cis/trans regulation, and the lambda phage genetic switch.