Biology: Discovery and Innovation
Biol 402/502 (3 cr)
Mondays 2 - 4:30 Room 107; Fall Semester 2008
2 office hour discussions - to be arranged
Research paper instructions, more guidelines
The goal of the course is to introduce UNM students to a broad range of biomedical research, involve them in discussions, and allow students to engage researchers who are involved in research at the frontiers of Biology.
Schedule:
This class is sponsored by the UNM- IMSD (Initiatives to Maximize Student Diversity)
08/25/08 |
Introduction | Maggie Werner-Washburne | Biology | UNM |
09/08/08 |
Heart development in flies | Richard Cripps | Biology | UNM |
09/15/08 |
Subdiffraction-limited microscopy | Diane Lidke | Pathology | UNM-HSC |
09/22/08 |
Maggie gone - Sushmita Roy/Diego Martinez | |||
09/29/08 |
Virology -West Nile Virus | Greg Ebel | Pathology | UNM-HSC |
10/06/08 |
Hummingbird systematics | Chris Witt | Biology | UNM |
10/13/08 |
Fungal Genomes | Scott Baker | Pacific Northwest National Labs | |
10/20/08 |
Stem cell biology | Xinyu Zhao | Neurosciences | UNM-HSC |
10/27/08 |
Computational Biology | Melanie Moses | Computer Sciences | UNM |
11/03/08 |
Papers - discussion | Papers due on or before Nov 24 | edit | Final papers due week of Dec. 8 |
11/10/08 |
Yeast bioengineering - aging | Frank Rosenzweig | Biology | U Montana |
11/17/08 |
Life in extreme environments | Penny Boston | Geology | New Mexico Tech |
11/24/08 |
Two-Hybrid Analysis: From Single Proteins to Proteomes | Stan Fields | Genome Sciences | U Washington |
12/01/08 |
Bioenergy | Plamen Atanassov | ChemNucEng | UNM |
12/08/08 |
Presentations |