Course Schedule - Bio 101 - Fall 2014
Mon lab lecture 12:00-12:50 pm
T/Th lecture 9-10:20 am
Labs M,T,W,Th,Friday 1:10-5 pm
Also available on Moodle:https://moodle.reed.edu/
| Date | Topic | Lab |
| Genetics and Genomics—Sarah Schaack | ||
| Sept 1 M | NO CLASS—Labor Day | |
| Sept 2 T | Major Themes in Biology and an Overview of Genetics and Genomics | Introduction to Bio Labs, Lab Protocols, and Best Practices |
| Sept 4 Th | Revisiting the Basics Reveals New Surprises: DNA/RNA Structure and Genome Content & Organization | |
| Sept 8 M | LL: The Species Concept/DNA Replication In Vivo and In Vitro | Working with Genetic Material: DNA Extraction, Primer Design, PCR and Sequencing |
| Sept 9 T | A Primer on Inheritance and Gene Expression: Mitosis, Transcription, and Translation | |
| Sept 11 Th | Performing genetics and genomics research using a variety of approaches: A case study of the most well-understood genetic disease in humans (sickle cell anemia) | |
| Sept 15 M | LL: Mutation/Visualizing DNA Molecules and Nucleotide Sequence | Visualizing DNA: Introduction to Bioinformatics and Gel Electrophoresis |
| Sept 16 T | The Segregation and Re-unification of Alleles: Meiosis & Recombination & "Sex" | |
| Sept 18 Th | Using experimentation and manipulation in genetics research: What genetic crosses and lab lines reveal about genes, traits, heredity, and evolution | |
| Sept 22 M | LL: Homology/DNA Sequence Alignment and Tree-Building | Analyzing Sequence Data: Identifying Species Using Genes and Understanding Phylogenetic Relationships |
| Sept 23 T | Using observation and comparison in genetics research: What sequence data reveals about genes, traits, heredity, and evolution | |
| Sept 25 Th | Emerging Areas of Inquiry: Epigenetics, Comparative Genomics, and Synthetic Biology | |
| Cell Biology—Derek Applewhite | ||
| Sept 29 M | LL: What are cells? What are they made of? | Macromolecules in Milk |
| Sept 30 T | Genetics and Genomics midterm exam | |
| Oct 2 Th | Macromolecules: Lipids and Amino Acids | |
| Oct 6 M | LL: How do cells proliferate? Introduction to the Cell Cycle and Mitosis |
Eukaryotic Cell Cycle |
| Oct 7 T | Cell Cycle Regulation and Spindle Dynamics | |
| Oct 9 Th | What happens when the Cell Cycle goes unchecked? | |
| Oct 13 M | LL: How do cells get Energy? Metabolism | Mitochondria and Metabolism |
| Oct 14 T | Mitochondria, Metabolism, and Energy | |
| Oct 16 Th | Mitochondrial origins and their role in disease | |
| Oct 20-24 | FALL BREAK | FALL BREAK |
| Oct 27 M | LL: How do cells move? Introduction to the Actin Cytoskeleton | Muscle Contraction |
| Oct 28 T | Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Adhesion | |
| Oct 30 Th | Lessons from metastasis | |
| Evolutionary Ecology—Bob Kaplan | ||
| Nov 3 M | LL: Some metazoans: Tadpoles and Fish | Quantitative Skills: Stickleback Fish and Tadpole Plasticity I |
| Nov 4 T | Cell Biology midterm exam | |
| Nov 6 Th | Biological hierarchies in space and time. Introduction to the Ecology and Genetics of Populations | |
| Nov 10 M | LL: Populations structures with Amphibians and Sticklebacks | Canyon Stickleback I |
| Nov 11 T | The importance of frequency distributions | |
| Nov 13 Th | Population Growth and regulation in non-age-structured populations | |
| Nov 17 M | LL: Stickleback and Tadpole Finale: Mark-recapture; two-way ANOVA revisited | Reed Canyon Stickleback II and Tadpole Plasticity II |
| Nov 18 T | Population Growth and regulation in age-structured populations | |
| Nov 20 Th | Phenotype and the Ecological Niche | |
| Nov 24 M | LL: SPECIAL LAB LECTURE on TADPOLE PLASTICITY | NO LABS-- Thanksgiving |
| Nov 25 T | Interspecific Competition, character displacement and Introduction to population genetics (to be continued) | |
| Nov 27 Th | NO Lecture-- Thanksgiving | |
| Dec 1 M | LL: Computer Simulations in Population Biology: Neutral theory | Population Genetics |
| Dec 2 T | Natural selection, local adaptation and metapopulations | |
| Dec 4 Th | TBA | |
| Dec 8 M | Midterm review session | NO LABS |
| Dec 9 T | Evolutionary Ecology midterm exam | |
| Dec 17 W | Final Exam 1-4 pm VLH | |