Are you still looking for classes to take this semester? Check out these classes that still have open spots!
*MCB 198: *How to Read and Write a Scientific Paper (1 unit) Instructor: Dr. P. Robert Beatty, [email protected] Location: 2070 VLSB Time/Day: Friday; 1-2pm Class number: 34768 This 1-unit seminar class will focus on improving scientific writing skills for upper division MCB majors (must be declared MCB). The course will begin with lectures by the instructor to introduce scientific writing, exercises in science writing, critique and dissection of papers and most importantly practice in writing a scientific article or honors thesis. Enrollment in the class will be limited to MCB majors who have a research project from their labwork to write about in the class projects. This class is highly recommended for students writing an honors thesis. *MCB 133L: *Cell Biology & Physiology Laboratory (4 units) Instructors: Dirk Hockemeyer, Gloria Brar, Polina Lishko Time/Day: Lec: Mo 1-2pm, Lab 101: MoWe 2-5:30p, Lab 102 TuTh 2-5:30p Prerequisites: MCB 104 Course Overview: Experimental analyses of central problems in cell biology and physiology using modern techniques, including DNA cloning and protein biochemistry, fluorescence microscopy of the cytoskeleton and organelles, DNA transfection and cell cycle analysis of cultured mammalian cells, RNA interference and drug treatments to analyze ion channel function in cell contractility and intracellular signaling, and somatosensation. *MCB C110L:* General Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Laboratory (4 units) Instructors: Andreas Martin, Isabelle Le Blanc Time/Day: Lec: MoWe 1-2p, Labs: MoWe 2-5:30p, Experimental techniques of biochemistry and molecular biology, designed to accompany the lectures in 100B and 110. *MCB C116:* Microbial Diversity Instructor: John Coates Time/Day: TuTh 9:30-11a, Tu 11-12n This course for upper-division and graduate students will broadly survey myriad types of microbial organisms, both procaryote and eucaryote, using a phylogenetic framework to organize the concept of "biodiversity." Emphasis will be on the evolutionary development of the many biochemical themes, how they mold our biosphere, and the organisms that affect the global biochemistry. Molecular mechanisms that occur in different lineages will be compared and contrasted to illustrate fundamental biological strategies. *MCB 166: *Biophysical Neurobiology Instructors: Alan Miller, Tamira Elul Time/Day: Lec TuTh 11a-12:30, Dis Mo 3-4p or We 4-5p Electrochemistry and ion transport phenomena, equivalent circuits, excitability, action potentials, voltage clamp and the Hodgkin-Huxley model. Biophysical properties of ion channels. Statistical and electrophysiological models of synaptic transmission, Quantitative models for dendritic structure and neuronal morphogenesis. Sensory transduction, cellular networks as computational devices, information processing and transfer. *IB C144:* Animal Behavior Instructors: Damian Elias, Eileen Lacey, George Bentley Time/Day: Lec MWF 9-10, Dis: Tu 11-12, 12-1, 1-2, We 2-3, 3-4, Th 12-1, 1-2, 2-3 An introduction to comparative animal behavior and behavioral physiology in an evolutionary context, including but not limited to analysis of behavior, genetics and development, learning, aggression, reproduction, adaptiveness, and physiological substrates. *IB C143A:* Biological Clocks: Physiology and Behavior Instructors: Lance Kriegsfeld Time/Day: Lec TuTh 3-4p, Dis Tu 12-1, 1-2, We 9-10, 10-11, 11-12 A consideration of the biological clocks that generate daily, lunar, seasonal and annual rhythms in various animals including people. Emphasis on neuroendocrine substrates, development and adaptive significance of estrous cycles, feeding rhythms, sleep-wakefulness cycles, reproductive and hibernation cycles, body weight and migratory cycles. *IB 123AL:* Exercise Physiology with Laboratory Instructors: George Brooks Time/Day: Lec MWF 8-9, Lab Tu 1-4, We 1-4, Th 1-4 Discussion of how chemical energy is captured within cells and how potential chemical energy is converted to muscular work. Energetics, direct and indirect calorimetry, pathways of carbon flow in exercise, ventilation, circulation, skeletal muscle fiber types. Laboratory component of the course is to obtain practical experience in the measurement of physiological parameters and to be able to compile, compare, contrast, and interpret physiological data. Laboratory demonstrations and exercises will explain lecture content. *IB 160:* Evolution Instructors Kevin Padian, Noah Whiteman Time/Day: Lec MWF 10-11, Dis Fr 12-1, 11-12, 12-1, 2-3 An analysis of the patterns and processes of organic evolution. History and philosophy of evolutionary thought; the different lines of evidence and fields of inquiry that bear on the understanding of evolution. The major features and processes of evolution through geologic times; the generation of new forms and new lineages; extinction; population processes of selection, adaptation, and other forces; genetics, genomics, and the molecular basis of evolution; evolutionary developmental biology; sexual selection; behavorial evolution; applications of evolutionary biology to medical, agricultural, conservational, and anthropological research. -- Molecular and Cell Biology Undergraduate Affairs Office University of California, Berkeley 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building, #3140 Berkeley, CA 94720-3200 P: 510-643-8895 Office hours: Mon - Thur 9-12 and 1-4 Friday 9-12 and 1-3 -- This list is managed by the Undergraduate Affairs Office and is used to communicate with majors in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology.The above message does not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the MCB Department, its student clubs, or UC Berkeley. --- To post to this list, send an email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[email protected]" group. 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