Biology 181 Fall Semester 2009 Schedule
Freshman Seminar in Biology

Date Researcher Topics, Lecture Notes, and Readings
Sept-01 Erik Herzog Unwinding the Biological Clock
  1. Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide mediates circadian rhythmicity and synchrony in mammalian clock neurons
  2. Neurons and networks in daily rhythms
Sept-08 Doug Chalker Science's Next Top Model: The Organisms of Discovery
  1. Model Organisms
  2. RNA Interference: Big Applause for Silencing in Stockholm
Sept-15 Frank Yin Biomedical Engineering
  1. Functional Arteries Grown in Vitro
  2. Lab-Grown Organs Begin to Take Shape
  3. Tissue Engineering
  4. Last Piece in the Puzzle
Sept-22 Joan Downey How Small is Too Small
  1. Outcomes in Young Adulthood for Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants
  2. The Limit of Viability -- Neonatal Outcome of Infants Born at 22 to 25 Weeks' Gestation
  3. Neurologic and Developmental Disability after Extremely Preterm Birth
  4. Neurologic and Developmental Disability at Six Years of Age after Extremely Preterm Birth
  5. Clinical Report—Antenatal Counseling Regarding Resuscitation at an Extremely Low Gestational Age
Sept-29 Gammon Earhart Investigating the Neural Control of Movement: From Turtles to Turning to Tango
  1. Gaining Insight by Going in Circles
  2. Changes in perception of active but not passive turning following stepping on the rotating treadmill
Oct-06 Petra Anne Levin

From Frogs to Bacteria: Development Large and Small

  1. The Division Inhibitor EzrA Contains a Seven-Residue Patch Required for Maintaining the Dynamic Nature of the Medial FtsZ Ring
  2. The great divide: coordinating cell cycle events during bacterial growth and division
Oct-13 Elaine Mardis The Human Genome: Our Encyclopedia and How to Use It
  1. Welcome to the Genomic Era
  2. The "new" genetics and clinical practice
  3. The impact of next-generation sequencing technology on genetics
  4. Recurring Mutations Found by Sequencing an Acute Myeloid Leukemia Genome
Oct-20 Jon Chase

Environmental Biology: From Local to Global Scales

  1. Filling key gaps in population and community ecology
  2. Frontiers of Ecology

 

Oct-27 Jan Brunstrom-Hernandez Cerebral Palsy: Basic Research, Clinical Care, Advocacy
  1. Human Neocortical Development: The Importance of Embryonic and Early Fetal Events
  2. Classification and Definition of Disorders Causing Hypertonia in Childhood
  3. Promotion of Physical Fitness and Prevention of Secondary Conditions for Children With Cerebral Palsy: Section on Pediatrics Research Summit Proceedings
  4. Cerebral Palsy Chapter 40 in Current Management in Child Neurology
  5. Frequency and Severity of Visual Sensory and Motor Deficits in Children with Cerebral Palsy: Gross Motor Function Classification Scale
Nov-03 Bob Blankenship

Photosynthesis

  1. On the Origin of Photosynthesis
  2. The Evolutionary Transition from Anoxygenic to Oxygenic Photosynthesis
  3. Defossiling Fuel: How Synthetic Biology Can Transform Biofuel Production
Nov-10 Kendall Blumer How Does the Retina Work?
  1. The need for speed
  2. Defects in RGS9 or its anchor protein R9AP in patients with slow photoreceptor deactivation
Nov-17 Kathy Miller Biology 500 and Presentations by Undergraduate Researchers
  1. Biology 200/500 Independent Study
  2. Biology Department
  3. Undergraduate Studies
  4. Students interested in research
  5. Washington University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  6. Research/Job Opportunities
  7. Strategy for finding a mentor
  8. Help finding a summer job
  9. List of potential mentors
  10. WU Research Opportunities In Biology and Biomedical Fields Information Sheet
  11. Clinical Research Funder Studies at WUSM
  12. NIH
  13. Community of Scholars

Presentations by Biology 500 students

  1. Joanna Kovalski A CHARACTERIZATION OF MYELOID CELL INFILTRATION IN RESPONSE TO ANTIANGIOGENIC TREATMENT IN A CONDITIONAL MODEL OF HIF-1 ACTIVATION <jkovalski@wustl.edu>
  2. Jacob Rubens IMPROVED PHOTOSYNTHETIC PRODUCTIVITY FOR RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES VIA SYNTHETIC REGULATION OF THE LIGHT HARVESTING ANTENNA LH2 <jacob.rubens@gmail.com
Nov-24
NO CLASS
Dec-01 Paul Stein Spinal Cord Control of Limb Movement in the Turtle
  1. A Multiple-Level Approach to Motor Pattern Generation
  2. Neuronal control of turtle hindlimb motor rhythms

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