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NEW COURSES FOR SPRING 2008
Special Topics: Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory (BIO330) - 4 credits
Prerequisite: Bio 215 and Bio 329
Registration No. 354438
Instructor: Michael Yu, Ph.D.
Tues 1-4pm
Thurs 1-4pm
And Fri 11-12pm (recitation)
Course description:
This newly designed course will offer SUNY advanced Biology-major students
an opportunity to learn research methods/techniques in molecular biology
field used in current academic and industry settings. These techniques
include the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), agarose and polyacrylamide gel
electrophoresis, immunoblotting, immunoprecipitation, chromatin
immunoprecipitation, and recombinant protein purification. The student must
register for one lab and one recitation.
Recitation Specific Student Activities:
The students will be required to attend and participate the recitation part
of this course. The purpose of the recitation is to go over the results from
the laboratory experiments each week, as well as discussion behind the
theories and expected results for each set of experiments.
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Cell Biology Honors Enrichment (BIO211) - 2 credits
Co-requisite: BIO201 - 4 credits
Instructor: Marie Janicke, Ph.D
Meeting times: Lecture on Fridays from 12-12:50, Discussion Groups from 12-12:50 on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday.
Class size: 96 maximum, with 24 in each Discussion Group section
Course description:
Cell Biology Honors Enrichment (BIO211) is a two-credit course that may be taken by students who are concurrently taking any section of the Biology Department’s regular Cell Biology course (BIO201 A, B, or C). Each BIO211 student will attend a once weekly hour-long large-group meeting, during which he will be introduced in greater depth to key aspects of Cell Biology. In addition, each BIO211 student will attend a once-weekly small-group discussion section, during which students will talk with their classmates about recent advances relating to the enrichment material and make a short presentation on some aspect of the enrichment material that they have chosen and researched. Typically, the basic enrichment material can be found in the BIO201 textbook and includes: specialized types of microscopy, thermodynamics and enzyme function as they relate to cellular energy transduction, membane potentials and nerve impulses, cellular mechanisms of drug action (such as Prozac, Viagra, and Gleevec), the biology of bacterial cells and the viruses that infect cells, bioengineering methods used by cell biologists, cellular aging, mechanisms of nuclear transport, the extracellular matrix, cellular communication and signaling, mitotic mechanisms, cancer, and stem cells. Emphasis is put on topics in Cell Biology that are currently ground-breaking, that are stressed on standardized tests such as the PCAT, MCAT, or DAT, and/or that have particular relevance to medicine. Honors Cell Biology presents a good opportunity to get to know your instructor and upper-level undergraduate teaching assistants and to learn about training and careers in biology and biomedical sciences. Student evaluation methods will focus on participation and creativity. BIO211 is recommended for students who have good high-school backgrounds in math (working with logs and exponents without a calculator being essential in BIO201) and science (a semester of freshman chemistry and/or evolutionary biology being optimal) and, most importantly, a passion for learning about how cells work.
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