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Toxicology Courses
Environmental
Toxicology Elective Courses
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Environmental
Toxicology 80E - Aquatic Toxicology
ELECTIVE
COURSES
Biology
200A - Advanced Genetics (F)
An analysis of selected topics in te primary research literature including conditional
lethality, classical fine structure genetics, the coding problem, control of
operon expression, phage lambda, and developmental genetics. A. Chiholm, R.
Ludwig
Biology
200B - Advanced Molecular Genetics (W)
An in-depth coverage of the structure, function, and synthesis
of DNA, RNA, and proteins. Discussion of the roles of macromolecules
in the regulation of information in the cell. H. Noller
Biology
200C - Advanced Cell Biology (S)
An in-depth coverage of topics in cellular and subcellular organization, structure,
and function in plants and animals. Emphasis on current research problems. L.
Hinck
Biology
208 - Cellular Signaling Mechanisms
All eukaryotic cells utilize intricate signaling pathways to control such diverse
events as cell-cell communication, cell division, and changes inc ell morphology.
This course covers themolecular basis of these cellular signaling pathways, focusing
on themost current research. D. Kellogg, A. Chisholm
Biology
226 - Advanced Neural Development
Emphasizes comparative studies in both invertebrate and vertebrate
nervous systems to provide rigorous, first-hand knowledge in neural
development. Specific topics include neurogenesis, fate determination,
migration, axonal guidance and synaptogenesis. Y. Jin, L. Hinck
Biology
287L - Molecular Biotechnology Laboratory (F)
An intensive molecular biology laboratory that presents procedures
used in molecular and biotechnology research. Topics and procedures
include DNA/RNA isolation, cloning and library construction, southern
and northern hybridazation, DNA fingerprinting, PCR, manual and automated
sequencing, and computer methods for analyzing molecular data. new
procedures currently being developed in biotechnology industries are
presented by industry representatives. M. Zavanelli
Chemistry
200A - Advanced Biocehmistry (W)
A detailed discussion of protein chemistry, ranging from the structure, thermodynamics,
and folding of proteins to the relationship between structure and function, and
encompassing the methods used to determine such information. A. Fink
Chemistry
200B - Advanced Biochemistry (S)
A variety of contemporary problems in biochemistry and molecular biology are
investigated in a detailed manner. W. Scott
Chemistry
200C - Biophysical Methods (F)
An introduction to the theory, principles, and practical application of biophysical
methods to the study of biomolecules, especially proteins and nucleic acids.
Emphasis on spectroscopic techniques. Topics include magnetic resonance, optical
spectroscopy, fast reaction techniques, crystallography, and mass spectrometry. O.
Einarsdottir, W. Scott
Chemistry
231 - Enzyme Mechanisms and Kinetics.
A study of enzyme kinetics, mechanisms, and factors involved in enzymic catalysis. A.
Fink
Chemistry
246B - Marine Organic Chemistry
A survey of organic natural products from marine sources. Organic chemical structural
families unique to marine organisms are outlined. Pathways of their synthesis
and interconversions, their role in the marine enviornment; approaches to their
analysis; the distribution of organics in seawater. P. Crews
Computer
Science 244 - Computational Genomics (S)
Genomics databases; analysis of high-throughput geneomics datasets. BLAST, and
related sequence comparison methos. Pairwise alignment of biosequences by dynamic
programming. Statistical methods to discover common motif in biosequences. Multiple
alignment and database search using motif models. Constructing phylogenetic trees.HiddenMarkov
models for finding genes, etc. Discriminative methods for the analysis of bioinformatics
data, neural networks, and support vector machines. Locating genes and predicitng
gene function, including introductin to linkage analysis and disease assocation
studies using SNPs. Modeling DNA and RNA structures. D. Haussler
Earth
Sciences 220 - Groundwater Modeling (F)
Introduction to the role and application of models to solving hydrologic problems.
Discussion of modeling methods include analytical, finite-difference, finite-element,
and analytical element. Emphasis on using models rather than the details of their
functioning. Some comfort with mathematical methods and computers expected. A.
Fisher
Environmental
Studies 201Q - Quantitative Methods in Environmental Studies
(W)
The goals of this course are to enable students to understand the usefulness
of mathematical reasoning and statistical methods, to design experiments and
studies, and to choose the appropriate quantitative tools. Topics include descriptive
elementary modeling, descriptive statistics, testing for differences, testing
for trends, categorical analysis, and experimental design. M. Mangel
Environmental
Studies 210 - Political Ecological Thought and Environment
Provides an introduction to social scientific analyses of the relationships between
capitalistic development and environment in the late 20th century. It has a dual
purpose: first to development a contemporary historical understanding and sensibility
of how econimic change, new institutional configurations, and world scale processes
are shaping interactions with the environment. Second, to examine some recent
political social theoretical perspectives on nature-society relations and radical
environmental and social movements. D. Goodman
Environmental
Studies 220 - Conserv ation Biology Core
The principles of conservation biology, including a review of the core disciplines
of demography, population genetics, island biogeography, and community ecology
and discussion of are and edge effects, population viability, and ecosystem issues
related to the maintenance of biological diversity, especially in fragmented
landscapes. J. Lockwood
Environmental
Studies 230 - Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture
The applicatin of ecological concepts and principles to the design and management
of agricultural systems. The long-term goal of sustainable agroecosystems is
examined in economic, social, and ecological contexts. C. Sherman
Ocean
Sciences 218 - Marine Microbial Ecology (S)
Recent developments in the study of marine bacteria and their role in the marine
ecosystem. Emphasis on biochemistry and physiology in relation to metabolic activity
and elemental cycles, trophic interactions and flows of material dna energy in
marine food webs. J. Zehr
Ocean
Sciences 220 - Chemical Oceanography (S)
A chemical description of the sea; emphasis on the chemical interactions of the
oceans with the biosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere. Topics include biogeochemical
cycles and the use of chemical tracers to study oceanic and coastal processes. K.
Bruland
Ocean
Sciences 242 - Ocean Ecosystems (W)
Discussion of selected topics in animal ecology of the open sea; zooplankton
production, variability of pelagic populations, food webs, deep sea pelagic and
benthic ecology, fisheries oceanography, and human effects on the open ocean
biota. M. Silver
Ocean
Sciences 280 - Marine Geology (W)
Geology of the marine environment. Topics include controls of the types, origin,
and distribution of marine sediments; geology of oceanic crust; evolution of
continental margins and plate boundaries; introduction to paleoceanography. M.
Delaney
Ocean Sciences 285 - Climate Change
Reviews the fundamentals of climate dynamics and exlores how Earth's environment
is a product of the interaction of its components. Uses examples of climate change
from historical and geologic records, and from predictions of the future. A.
Ravelo
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