Holobionts in Space: Designing a Healthy Human from Scratch

Learn the Necessary Components to Keep and Sustain Colonists’ Health on Mars

 

Imagine humans have successfully settled a colony on Mars. There would be necessary components to keep and sustain their health on this new and strange terrain. This includes how angiogenesis initiates the process of new blood and vessel growth. Students will witness how the human body can regenerate itself from wounds and also research immunity and what foods naturally boost the human immune system.

What You Will Learn

Humans need certain conditions to ensure health for survival on Mars. Learn how angiogenesis, regeneration and mitochondrial health affects their health!

• Learn about angiogenesis and new blood vessel growth.
• Encounter how the human body regenerates itself like a starfish and can heal itself from wounds.
• Explore the human microbiome and which flora in the human gut are necessary for us to thrive.
• Learn about DNA protection and how the genetic code can repair itself including unique risk factors in a xenic (non-Earth) environment.
• Research immunity and what foods naturally boost the actions of the immune system.
• Discover the fascinating organelle known as mitochondria that grows and divides independently of our cells—though it exists within them!

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Note: Upon successful enrollment of a section, students will receive a confirmation email from our Student Services team. This email will include a link to an authorization form that is required to be completed within 72-hours of enrollment. 

In response to COVID-19 health guidelines, we have restructured our in-person Junior Academy workshops as
online courses. Contact us at srs@ucsd.edu if you have questions.

Course Number: BIOL-90047
Credit: 1.50 unit(s)

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6/20/2022 - 6/24/2022

$175

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• SECTION ID:

  164871

• CLASS TYPE:

  Synchronous web-based class meetings that are scheduled to meet online at published times (time/date).

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Smith, Lincoln

  Lincoln Smith interviewed at medical schools across the country in two medical school application cycles, with two accompanying official administrations of the MCAT. He pursued programs that treated a specific type of quadraplegia in the first cycle, and those programs that studied cancer immunotherapy for his terminally ill father the second. He has taught and now prepares MCAT curriculum for pre-medicine students, passing his medical school application and MCAT knowledge on to aspiring medical professionals. Lincoln went on to teach the MCAT at a major Test Prep company for the next three years. Subsequent to this, he has continued to tutor the MCAT privately, with a spin off P98 CARS curriculum from his 98th percentile CARS section. He has a 97th percentile overall MCAT score. H...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself 1st
  by William W Li MD
  ISBN / ASIN: 9781538714621

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  1st meeting mandatory.
  Early enrollment advised.
  No UCSD parking permit required.
  No visitors permitted.
  Pre-enrollment required.
  No refunds after: 6/13/2022.
  

• NOTE:

  This is a HIGH SCHOOL level course. Instructor will email student with Zoom information 24-hours in advance of start date. Please note this email will go to the student email on file, and not the parent email. The course runs the first two hours with an optional office hour the last hour. No supplies are needed for this course.

DATE	DAY	START	END	LOCATION
6/20/2022	Mon	9:00 a.m.	12:00 p.m.
6/21/2022	Tue	9:00 a.m.	12:00 p.m.
6/22/2022	Wed	9:00 a.m.	12:00 p.m.
6/23/2022	Thu	9:00 a.m.	12:00 p.m.
6/24/2022	Fri	9:00 a.m.	12:00 p.m.