The lecture material is correlated with laboratory work in which the student has the opportunity to gain firsthand information about fundamental physiological processes. Lectures and assigned reading will serve to demonstrate to the student the differences and similarities of function in the vertebrate and invertebrate phyla.
Graduate students prepare the topic presentation one or more times each semester.
BIOC 5103 or equivalent. Advanced studies in structural biology at the subcellular level, including consideration of appropriate physical techniques. This interdisciplinary course treats the basic development, anatomy, physiology and biochemistry of the brain. It considers the gross and internal morphology, pathways and functions of the nervous system. Basic principles of the nerve action potential and synapses, and of sensory, motor, autonomic limbic and higher systems will be discussed.