Offered in alternate years. Emphasis is placed on mechanisms underlying physiological processes found throughout the animal kingdom. Three lectures and one laboratory each week. Offered in alternate years. Lecture includes discussion of papers from the current literature.
Laboratory features multiweek investigations on selected topics in each area.
Three lectures, one scheduled lab each week. Laboratories emphasize quantitative analysis and experimental design in ecology and include several field projects. Lectures focus on the development of ecological concepts and theory. Three lectures and one laboratory per week. This course examines selected topics that are the focus of current research describing the molecular biology of eukaryotic cells.