UNIV 110 Keller
UNIV 110 Fall 2018
#18A Do you &!*%$#@ love science? [Linked to BIOL 151 (Introduction to Zoology)
Tentative Schedule and Readings
Note: "Discussion" will link to the reading for that day. Weekly Reading Reports are due at the start of the discussion. Discussion leaders will be assigned the preceding week.
"Presentation" indicates meetings in which some type of lecture or informative exercise or activity will occur.
Week Monday Wednesday Discussion leaders
1 (Aug 22) ----- Syllabus and introduction
2 (Aug 27, 29) Student introductions Presentation
3 (September 3, 5) Labor Day (No class) Discussion ("Strong Inference:...") Keller
4 (Sept 10, 12) Discussion ("Unskilled and...") Presentation
5 (Sept 17, 19) Presentation Discussion ("Nothing in Biology...")
6 (Sept 24, 26) Presentation Discussion (Selective bird predation on the peppered moth...)
7 (October 1, 3) Presentation Discussion (https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/developing-the-chromosome-theo...)
8 (October 8, 10) Assessment Day (No class) Discussion ("Sex limited inheritance in Drosophila")
9 (October 15, 17) Presentation Discussion ( Griffith and Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty and DNA as the "transforming principle":
Groffith discovery of bacterial transformation
DNA is "the transforming principle" )
10 (Oct 22, 24) Presentation (Super) Presentation (Grad requiements)
11 (Oct 29, 31) Presentation (Keller) Activity with Rafena
12 (November 5, 7) Presentation Discussion (The Hershey and Chase experiment
the bacteriophage lifecycle
the "blender experiment"
13 (Nov 12, 14) Veteran's Day (No class) Service project
14 (Nov 19, 21) Presentation Discussion (Bacteria and infectious diseases:
John Snow and Cholera
Robert Koch, tuberculosis, and three postulates
15 (Nov 26, 28) Presentation Discussion ( Biomechanics and Godzilla )
16 (December 3, 5) Discussion (Clinical trials: Discussion ( Clinical trials continued:
outline [written for HIV community] Glybera )
very recent example of a Phase III trial)