Also offered for graduate students. Correlation of visual functioning with known optical, biochemical, physiological, and anatomical substrates. Gordon Topics include excitation-contraction coupling, muscle structure, and molecular basis of contraction, regulation of contraction, muscle mechanisms, energetics, and adaptation. Emphasis on skeletal muscle with some discussion of cardiac and smooth muscle. Series of six lecture discussions.
Students participate in the performance of ongoing projects in designated research laboratories.
Emphasis is on experimental design, methodology and techniques. Steiner Emphasizes the cellular and molecular aspects of several topics in neuroendocrinology, including neuropeptide genes, reproduction, steroid hormone regulation of gene expression, mechanisms of hormone action, endocrine rhythms, and neural oscillations. Students write a critical evaluation of each paper in the manner of a peer review. All three quarters are required for second-year P BIO students. Students write a critical evaluation of each paper in the manner of a peer review.