6.35	Human Anatomy and Cell Science

Head: T. Klonisch, Head
General Office: 130 Basic Medical Sciences Building, 730 William Avenue
Telephone: (204) 789 3652
Fax: (204) 789 3920
Email: anatomycellsci@umanitoba.ca
Website: umanitoba.ca/medicine/anatomy

Academic Staff

Program Information
The Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science offers graduate training at both the M.Sc. and Ph.D. levels. The purpose is to prepare students for careers in biomedical research, for teaching in selective areas of anatomy and admission to clinical programs. It is the only department to offer basic and advanced courses in gross, microscopic and developmental anatomy. It also offers courses in neuroscience, cell biology, electron microscopy and cardiac lipids. These have now become particularly important tools in assessing outcomes associated with use of transgenic and gene knockout animals as models of human disease. Graduate students are also provided with opportunities to teach in various sub-disciplines of anatomy. In addition to transmitting knowledge, they must also generate new knowledge by undertaking meaningful research. The department also provides a fine milieu for cross-fertilization of ideas, and more personalized attention; benefits of a smaller department. The department offers a multidisciplinary program in biomedical applications of imaging and spectroscopy in conjunction with Institute for Biodiagnostics – National Research Council. Various members of the department are affiliated with the Faculty of Dentistry, School of Medical Rehabilitation, and St. Boniface General Hospital Research Centre. The department also provides continuing medical education to the allied health science community.

Fields of Research
The Department consists of a number of faculty, each of which are experts in one or more sub-disciplines of anatomy. Quality teaching programs are enriched by scholarly pursuits of department members who are engaged in research of the highest quality in the following areas: muscle repair, developmental anatomy and biology, cardiology, neuroendocrinology, cell and molecular biology and neuroscience. Graduate students are provided with the opportunity to use a variety of contemporary techniques such as autoradiography, light and electron microscopy, morphometrics, tissue culture and transplantation, high performance liquid chromatography, immunocytochemistry, in situ hybridization, radioimmunoassay, electrophoresis, transgenics, molecular biology, magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy.

Research Facilities
The department is spacious, has excellent facilities and is well equipped for research. The department houses an electron microscopy suite equipped with scanning and electron microscopes, a communal tissue culture, histology, and autoradiography facility, and a satellite animal facility. Individual research laboratories are equipped with microscopes (fluorescence, transmitted light, dissecting), photomicrography apparati, high performance liquid chromatography, and radioimmunoassay capabilities, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), DNA sequencing, genomic cloning and other molecular biology facilities. Personnel also have access to magnetic resonance imaging and MR spectroscopy facilities.

M.Sc. in Human Anatomy and Cell Science

Admission
Admission requirements are those of the Faculty of Graduate Studies found in the Graduate Studies Regulations Section of this Calendar. The following categories of students may be accepted for graduate study in this department:

• 4-year undergraduate Science degree with a minimum GPA of 3.0.

• Students who have completed a 3-year general undergraduate degree may be admitted following completion of the required pre-Master's courses. Contact the Department for details.

• Graduates in medicine or dentistry holding M.D., D.M.D. (D.D.S.), or equivalent degrees.

• Other suitable graduates will be considered.