Bio 465/565 Neurophysiology Lab Schedule - Spring 2001

date lab

Week 1 Electrophysiology instrumentation orientation;
introduction to NEURON and STELLA modeling.

Week 2 Resting membrane potentials in crayfish abdominal muscles

Week 3 Intracellular potentials in invertebrate giant axons: Resting and action potentials

Proposal for group research on intracellular potentials due in class Sep. 26

Week 4 Group research of giant axon intracellular potentials

Week 5 Intracellular synaptic potentials at the frog neuromuscular junction

Invertebrate giant axon potentials manuscript due

Proposal for group research of synaptic potentials due Oct. 10

Week 6 Group research of synaptic potentials

Peer review of invertebrate giant axon manuscript due

Week 7 Cell culture I: Tissue Culture Technique

Self evaluation of invertebrate giant axon manuscript due

Week 8 Cell culture II: Regulation of cell division and differentiation in PC12 cells

Week 9 Cell culture III: Expression of membrane proteins - PC12 cell Acetylcholinesterase

Week 10 Neural networks in an invertebrate brain I

Proposal for group research of neural networks due Nov. 14

Week 11 Neural networks II - Group Research

Cell culture group research manuscript due

Week 12 Neural networks III - Group Research

(Wednesday) Peer group evaluations of cell culture manuscript due in class Nov. 28

Week 13 Poster preparation

Week 14 Poster presentations of neural network research, including peer and group

evaluations

Self evaluations of cell culture group manuscript due