WEEK 1 |
Lab Meeting on Monday
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lecture 1 (Ch18.1-ICB) Are cricket songs are heard by enemies? on Wednesday
WEEK 2 |
Lab Meeting on Monday
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lecture 2 (online) (Ch18.1-ICB) Do frog choruses attract predators? (exploiting communication)
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JClub1: Raj Ulagaraj (crickets) + Rachel Page (bats) papers on Wednesday
WEEK 3 |
Lab Meeting on Monday
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lecture 3 (Ch18.3-ICB) What information is used by corals during settlement? on Wednesday
WEEK 4 |
Lab Meeting on Monday
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lecture 4 (online) (Ch17.1-ICB) How is info transmitted between fireflies? (info between members of species)
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JClub2: Rachel Lewis (fireflies) + Lindsey Harrington (coral) papers on Wednesday
WEEK 5 |
Lab Meeting on Monday
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lecture 5 (Ch17.2-ICB) What about complex communication in storm petrels? on Wednesday
WEEK 6 |
Lab Meeting on Monday
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lecture 6 (online) (Ch17.3-ICB) Is there specialized communication in social meerkats (group's derived mechanisms)
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JClub3: Vincent Bretagnole (petrels)+ Marta Manser (meerkats) papers on Wednesday
WEEK 7 |
Lab Meeting on Monday
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lecture 7 (online) (Ch16.1-ICB) Sandwort plants & barnacles (What causes individual variation?)
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JClub4: Caiazza (pollution, stomata and hairs) paper on Wednesday
WEEK 8 | EXAM #1 WEEK
WEEK 9
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lecture 8 (online) (Ch1.1, 1.2-ICB) Historical data of Griffith & Avery (What is the heritable material?)
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JClub5: Watson & Crick & Wilkins & Franklin (DNA structure) et al papers on Wednesday
WEEK 10 |
lecture 9 (online) (Ch1.5-ICB) Hello epigenetics (Is all genetic information encoded linearly in the DNA sequence?)
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JClub6: DeSimone (epigenetics) paper on Wednesday
WEEK 11 |
lecture 10 (online) (Ch2.3-ICB) Translation: Deciphering the codes of codons (How do cells make proteins?)
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JClub7: Dang & Johnson (Warfarin, fetal hemoglobin, blood clotting) papers on Wednesday
WEEK 12
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lecture 11 (online) (Ch3.1-ICB) Mendel & pea plants (reappear in a later generation?)
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JClub8: Collins (birth weight) papers on Wednesday
WEEK 13 |
lecture 12 (online) (Ch4.1-ICB) Evolution of Life (What is Evolution?)
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JClub9: Ingman (human evolution, out of africa) et al paper on Wednesday
WEEK 14 |
lecture 13 (online) (Ch4.3-ICB) Lipids evolving into membranes (Can non-living objects compete & grow?)
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JClub10: Stanley Miller (origin of life) paper on Wednesday
Thanksgiving Break
WEEK 15 | EXAM #2 WEEK