Year 4, 2011-12
Module leaders
Dr Ian Godsland
Dr Alan Purohit
Reproductive and developmental sciences
Monday 10 October - Friday 11 November 2011

Module 1: Hormone-dependent systems and cancers - timetable weeks 1-3 [Word] - timetable weeks 4-5 [Word]

Coursework submission:
  • Submit the Essay coursework at the portal - select option: 'BSc1112-REPRO-Module1-ESSAY'
  • deadline is 5 pm on Thursday 10 November, after which penalties for late submission will apply
PowerPoint presentations [learning objectives are Word documents]:
Mon 10 Oct The nuclear receptor superfamily + learning objectives - Dr Ian Godsland
Steroid receptors and their antagonists + learning objectives - Dr Ian Godsland
Control of steroid hormone production [pdf] - Professor Stephen Franks
Tues 11 Oct How does gene regulation control gene expression? - Professor Malcolm Parker
Progesterone receptors + references [Word] - Dr Jaya Nautiyal
Control of peptide hormone production / Gonadotrophin action and resistance - Professor Ilpo Huhtaniemi
Wed 12 Oct Oestrogen receptors - Professor Simak Ali

Tissue availability of steroid hormones - Dr Alan Purohit
Thurs 13 Oct Cancer and hormones: the basics + learning objectives - Dr Ian Godsland
Growth factors and tumour susceptibility genes + learning objectives - Dr Ian Godsland
Fri 14 Oct The menstrual cycle [pdf] - Dr Mandy Donaldson
The menstrual cycle 2: interventions - Dr Mandy Donaldson
Mon 17 Oct Advanced prostate cancer - Professor Paul Abel
Puberty - Dr Mandy Donaldson
Prolactin - Dr Mandy Donaldson
Tues 18 Oct Ovarian cancer - Peter Mason
Pathology of breast cancer - Dr Gemma Petts
Tissue integrity and angiogenesis in cancer - Dr Mark Sullivan
Thurs 20 Oct Epigenetics and cancer 1 [pdf] - Dr Constanze Zeller
Epigenetics and cancer 2 [pdf] - Dr Nadine Chapman-Rothe

Molecular profiling - Dr Euan Stronach
Fri 21 Oct Progesterone in breast and endometrial cancer - Dr Laki Buluwela

Prostate cancer - Dr Charlotte Bevan
Tues 25 Oct MR imaging appearances of gynaecological malignancies - Dr Syed Babar
Tyrosine kinases as drug targets in cancer - Dr Nick Dubb
Cell surface receptor signalling [Word] - Dr Nick Dubb
Thurs 27 Oct Cancer chemotherapy - Dr Sarah Blagden
Principles and applications of radiotherapy - Dr Alexandra Taylor
Drug resistance and cancer - Dr Jo Day
Mon 31 Oct Spermatogenesis [pdf] - Dr Kevin Lindsay
Sperm transport [pdf] - Dr Kevin Lindsay
Tues 1 Nov Cervical and vaginal cancer part 1 and part 2 [pdf] - Dr Maria Kyrgiou
Endometrial carcinoma - Dr Sadaf Ghaem-Maghami
Vaccines in gynaecological oncology - Dr Sadaf Ghaem-Maghami
Thurs 3 Nov Growth and differentiation of the female tract: ovary [pdf] - Professor Kate Hardy
Folliculogenesis [pdf] - Professor Kate Hardy
Fri 4 Nov Oogenesis [pdf] - Professor Kate Hardy
Fertilisation [pdf] - Dr Kevin Lindsay
Mon 7 Nov Management of  women with premature ovarian failure (POF) - Dr Etienne Horner
Female incontinence - Dr Vik Khullar
Tues 8 Nov Bisphosphonates and statins - Dr Mike Schachter

The science behind HRT [pdf] - Dr John Stevenson
Fri 11 Nov Anovulation [pdf] - Professor Stephen Franks
Endocrine disorders and reproduction [pdf] - Professor Stephen Franks
Genesis of aneuploidy - Dr Nobuaki Kudo

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