8. Still on Neurons

module 6

week 8

neurons

action potentials

electricity

signals

You all know about action potentials, but how do they actually work? The details, and how they scale up in the biological heirarchy are so much more interesting.

Author

Affiliation

Marguerite Butler

School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaii

Published

October 15, 2024

Pre-class materials

Read ahead

Before class, you can prepare by reading the following materials:

Tuesday start Neurons Discussion [discussion & reading assignment]
Please watch the podcasts below.

Announcements/Reminders

Presentations in lab this week
Design 2 Draft due Tuesday 10/22
Start gathering your diet data for [Design 2 and work through the basic analysis. Also check out the [FAQs
[HW 4] due Thursday 10/24
Design 2 Final will be due 11/1

Week 8 Discussion Groups

Group	Partner 1	Partner 2	Partner 3
1	Sean	Abby	Adam
2	Ashton	Mohamad	Veronica
3	Christian	Kylee	Vivian
4	Ilan	James	Hao

Tuesday

Start Neurons Discussion [discussion] [slide deck]

Neurons podcast

(maybe next week) Signal Propagation [slide deck2]

Signal propagation podcast

For Next Time

Reminders and materials