SPRING 2004
BIOLOGY 490: NEUROBIOLOGY

SCHEDULE OF LECTURES AND ASSIGNMENTS
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This schedule may be modified during the semester.
Check the course webpage regularly for updates.
Last updated 03/11/04

Exam   1   2  Final
Assignment 1   2   3   4
Research Journal  1  2
 
DATE READING & ASSIGNMENTS TOPIC RECITATION
Jan 15 Chapter 1 Bear text  Introduction to Neurobiology
Jan 20 Chapter 2 Bear text 
Articles in Zuhl Library 
  • Greenfield Ch 1
  • Hof et al Ch.3
 Neuron and Glia Structure & Function
Cell types and diversity
Jan 22 Chapter 2 Bear text 
Articles in Zuhl Library
  • Brady et al Ch.4
 Neuron and Glia Structure & Function
Membranes, organelles and biomolecules
Jan 27  Chapter 2 Bear text 
Articles in Zuhl Library 		Neuron and Glia Structure & Function
Membranes, organelles and biomolecules
Jan 29


 Chapter 3 Bear text 
Articles in Zuhl Library
Neural Signalling:
Fundamentals of electronics and thermodynamics
Electrical properties of neurons:
RC circuits & Nernst equation
Feb 3
Assignment 1 due
 Chapter 3 Bear text 
Articles in Zuhl Library
  • Greenfield Ch 3
  • Purves et al Ch. 2
 Neural Signalling:
Electrical properties of neurons:
Resting potentials and "passive" properties
Membrane time constants, Goldman equation
Feb 5
 Chapter 4 Bear text 
Articles in Zuhl Library
  • Purves et al Ch. 3,4
 Neural Signalling
Action potentials and "active" properties:


Feb 5
 Seminar  (Assignment 4)
 Dr. Diane Darland, Schepens Eye Research Institute and Harvard Medical School.        Neurovascular interactions: heterotypic cell-cell interactions during development and pathology
Feb 10 Chapter 7, 22 Bear text

Neuroanatomy
Development
Feb 12
 Chapter 7 Bear text

Neuroanatomy
Brain structure and function
Feb 17 Chapter 4 Bear text 
Articles in Zuhl Library
  • Purves et al Ch. 3,4
 Neural Signalling
Action potentials and "active" properties:
TUESDAY
Feb 17
 4-5 pm
FH110		 Seminar  (Assignment 4) Dr. Jennifer Curtiss, Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology,  Mt. Sinai School of Medicine-New York.  The Interplay of Selectors and Signaling Factors during Eye Development in Drosophila melanogaster
Feb 19 Chapter 5,6  Bear text
Neural Signalling
Ion channels structural diversity 
Channelopathies
Feb 24

 Integration of Concepts

Feb 26
Assignment 2 due
 Chapter 5,6  Bear text Neural Signalling
Ion channels structural diversity 
Channelopathies
Mar 2
 Tuesday Exam 1 Cell structure, Signalling,Anatomy
Mar 4
 Chapter 5, 6 Bear text
Neural Communication
Electrical and chemical synaptic transmission
Chemical synaptic transmission: CNS and PNS
Mar 9

 Chapter 5,6 Bear text

Neural Communication
Vesicles, fusion, axonal transport, neurotransmitters
Mar 11

 Chapter 5,6 Bear text Neural Communication
Vesicles, fusion, axonal transport, neurotransmitters
Mar 16

Chapter 5,6 Bear text

 Neural Communication
Neurotransmitter  Receptors
Mar 18

 Chapter 15 Bear text Chemical Control of Brain and Behavior 
Hypothalamus, ANS, Diffuse Modulatory Systems, Fear, Aggression
Mar 22-26
 SPRING
  BREAK
Mar 30
 Chapter 9,10 Bear text
 Sensory systems 1: Introduction
Apr 1

 Chapter 9,10 Bear text Sensory systems 1: Visual System: Eye

Apr 6
Journal part 1
 Chapter 9,10 Bear text Sensory systems 1: Visual System: Retinal Processing
TUESDAY
Apr 6
 7:30 pm

 Seminar  (Assignment 4)
At the Thompson-Sak offices on 1036 S, Main (S of Judes; park in Pueblo Plaza)
 Dr. Tommy Thompson, Violence, Executive Functions and Genetic Predisposition. The discussion will include a qEEG demonstration and an examination of qEEG data.
Apr 8

 Chapter 21 Bear text



 Mental Illness 
Anxiety and Mood Disorders, Schizophrenia


Apr 13
 Tuesday Exam 2

 Neural Communication, Neurochemistry, Sensory Systems 1
Apr 15
 Chapter 9,10 Bear text
Chapter 8 Bear text


 Sensory systems 2: Visual System: CNS processing
Sensory systems 2 : Olfaction, Taste
Apr 20
Assignment 3 due
 Chapter 11, 12 Bear text

 Sensory systems 2: Audition and balance, Somatosensory System: Dermatomes, pain
Apr  22
 Chapter 23, 24 Bear text

Learning and memory
Molecular mechanisms
THURSDAY
April 22
4-5 pm
FH 201		 Seminar  (Assignment 4) Dr. Meredith Garcia, Tulane Medical School,  The Nitric Oxide Pathway in the Central Auditory System: Implications for Tinnitus.
Apr 27
Journal Part 2 due
 Chapter 22 Bear text Neural development: Wiring the Brain
Neurogenesis, cell migration, axon guidance
Synapse formation, programmed cell death
Apr 29  Chapter 19 Bear text
Guest lecturer:
Dr. James Kroger
NMSU Psychology Dept
 Brain Rhythms
fMRi and brain imaging
May 4
Assignment  4 due
 Chapter 17 Bear text
Sex and the Brain
Sexual Dimorphism, Hormones and the Brain
May 6 Integration of Concepts

May 11
 10:30-12:30
 FINAL EXAM
Cumulative
Sensory systems 2, Learning, Memory, Wiring, Brain