Schedule
Schedule and course materials for Animal Physiology (Zool 430 Fall 2024).
Assignment Schedule SUBJECT TO CHANGE
| Class Topic | Assignment Due | Lab | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | ||||
| 8/27 | T | Intro to Course/Megalodon Discussion [html] [paper] [Google Drive copy] | (Reading Assessment) | Lab1: PC1-G-HR/Data analysis [overview] [podcast] [lab manual] [protocol] |
| Th | Library Day - Meet at Hamilton [html] | |||
| Week 2 | ||||
| 9/3 | T | Metabolism [html] [reading assignment and questions] [HWA readings] | Lab2: PC2-G-Honolulu Zoo [lab manual] | |
| Th | Size and Scaling [podcast] | |||
| F | Background Design 1 [html] | |||
| Week 3 | ||||
| 9/10 | T | Temperature [html] [discussion] | PS1: Metabolism [pdf] | Lab3:PC3-IWS-Peripheral Circ/Dive Resp [overview] |
| Th | Iterative Method/Heterothermy | |||
| Week 4 | ||||
| 9/17 | T | Finish Temperature/Cardiac Function [html] | PS2: Temperature [pdf] | Lab Practical / Lab4: PC3-G-ECG/Cardiac Function [overview] |
| Th | Design 1 chat | |||
| F | ||||
| Week 5 | ||||
| 9/23 | M | Design 1 Due [assignment] [pdf] [FAQs] [turn in] | ||
| 9/24 | T | Sustained Metabolic Scope Paper [discussion] [Hammond and Diamond 1997], [optional: Peterson et al. 1990] | Design Critique Session/Peer Critique 1 [turn in] | |
| Th | Design 1 Workday | |||
| Week 6 | ||||
| 10/1 | T | Feeding [html] [discussion] | ||
| Th | Digestion | Lab5: PC1-IWS-Toad Heart [overview] | ||
| F | Design 1 Rewrite [Due midnight] | |||
| Week 7 | ||||
| 10/8 | T | Sample Problem [html] Max Size Herbivores Paper Claus 2003 [on drive] | PS3: Feeding & Digestion [pdf] | Lab6: PC2-G-Lobster Heart [overview] |
| Th | Neurons [html] [discussion] | |||
| Week 8 | ||||
| 10/15 | T | Synapses/Sensory Receptors | Design Presentations | |
| Th | Muscles [html] [discussion] | |||
| Week 9 | ||||
| 10/22 | T | Motor Control [html] [discussion] | Design 2 Feeding & Digestion [html] [resources] [turn in] | Lab 7:PC1-G-Vertebrate Action Potential [overview] |
| Th | Biomechanics | PS4: Neurons [pdf], Peer Critique 2 [see turn in] | ||
| F | Design 2 Feeding & Digestion [html] [resources] [turn in] | |||
| Week 10 | ||||
| M | Peer Critique 2 [see turn in] | |||
| 10/29 | T | Finish Muscles/Biomechanics [html] [discussion] | Lab8: PC2-G-Human Muscle [overview] | |
| Th | Locomotion | |||
| F | Rewrite Design 2 [Due Friday midnight] | |||
| Week 11 | ||||
| 11/5 | T | Election Day! (No class, but review Locomotion) [html] | Lab9: PC3-G-Toad Muscle [overview] | |
| Th | Blood and Respiratory Media | |||
| F | PS5: Muscles & Biomech [pdf] | |||
| Week 12 | ||||
| 11/12 | T | Aquatic Respiration [html] | Lab10:PC1-I-Toad Muscle Independent [overview] | |
| Th | Aerial Respiration | PS6: Respiration [due at start of class] | ||
| Week 13 | ||||
| 11/19 | T | Finish Respiration/Begin Osmoregulation [html] | Lab 11: PC1-G-Human EEG [[overview]] | |
| Th | Symmorphosis: Weibel, Taylor, and Hoppeler (1991) The concept of symmorphosis: A testable hypothesis of structure-function relationship. PNAS 88:10357-61 | |||
| F | Design 3 Resipration, Peer Critique 3 [html] [resources] [turn in] | |||
| Week 14 | ||||
| 11/26 | T | Osmoregulation 2 [html] | No Labs | |
| Th | Thanksgiving Holiday | |||
| Week 15 | ||||
| 12/3 | T | Excretion [html] | Lab 12: PC2-G-Human Renal [overview] | |
| Th | Excretion 2 | PS7: Osmoregulation [pdf] | ||
| F | Design 3 Rewrite | |||
| Week 16 | ||||
| 12/10 | T | Student Presentations | Turn in Lab 12 | |
| Th | Student Presentations | Design 4: Osmoreg/Own (draft optional) [html] [resources] | ||
| 12/19 | Th | Finals Week | Design 4 Due | |