Biology 596 Lecture Schedule, Spring 2005

 

Class Meeting

Day

Month

Date

Instructor

Topic

Chapter

Pages

1

Tues.

Jan.

25

BZ

Introduction - Genomics

9

294-303; 381-387

2

Thurs.

Jan.

27

BZ

Mobile Elements

10

415-424

3

Fri.

Jan.

28

BZ

Chromatin Structure

10

424-437

4

Tues.

Feb.

1

BZ

Eukaryotic Transcriptional regulation

Review Ch. 11: pp 454-468

15

621-635

5

Thurs.

Feb.

3

BZ

Paper 1 P element screen

Quiz

 

 

6

Fri.

Feb.

4

BZ

Eukaryotic Transcriptional regulation

15

621-635

7

Tues.

Feb.

8

BZ

Paper 2 - Transcriptional regulation

Quiz

 

 

8

Thurs.

Feb.

10

BZ

Histone Acetylation Deacetylation

11

471-476

9

Fri.

Feb.

11

BZ

Comparative Genomics

 

 

10

Tues.

Feb.

15

BZ

Gene Silencing

9

393

11

Thurs.

Feb.

17

BZ

Paper 3 - Gene Silencing  paper

Quiz

 

 

12

Fri.

Feb.

18

BZ

Experimental design – transcriptional regulation

 

 

13

Tues.

Feb.

22

BZ

Homologous Recombination and transgenic animals

9

387-392

14

Thurs.

Feb.

24

BZ

Exam I -

 

 

15

Fri.

Feb.

25

SB

Actin filaments & binding proteins

19

779-784

16

Tues.

Mar.

1

SB

Actin based movement

19

784-791

17

Thurs.

Mar.

3

SB

Myosin structure and function

 

Actin-myosin in nonmuscle cells

19

3

19

791-796 

81-82

800-805

18

Fri.

Mar.

4

SB (AC)

Muscle, a specialized contractile machine

19

797-800

19

Tues.

Mar.

8

SB (AC)

Excitable cells

7

276-294

20

Thurs.

Mar.

10

SB

Paper 1 - actin-myosin;

Quiz on paper 1.

 

 

21

Fri.

Mar.

11

SB

Intermediate filaments;

Exam on paper 1.

19

805-813

22

Tues.

Mar.

15

SB

Microtubules

20

817-829

23

Thurs.

Mar.

17

SB

Kinesin, dynein and intracellular transport

20

829-835

24

Fri.

Mar.

18

SB

Cilia and flagella; Mitosis and motor proteins

20

835-850

25

Tues.

Mar.

22

SB

Paper 2 - Cytoskeleton;

Quiz on paper 2

 

 

26

Thurs.

Mar.

24

SB

Cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion;

Exam on paper 2

6

197-209

27

Fri.

Mar.

25

SB

Components of the extracellular matrix

6

209-235

28

Tues.

April

5

SB

Paper 3 - Extracellular matrix

Quiz on paper 3

 

 

29

Thurs.

April

7

SB

Exam II

 

 

30

Fri.

April

8

CT

Signal Transduction

20

848-856, 862, 865-884, 888-890, 894-896, 902-905

31

Tues.

April

12

CT

Signal Transduction

 

 

32

Thurs.

April