Recitations/Labs

In our recitations:

you will:

In our labs:

you will:

The laboratories are held in a community lab style that will allow you to work together in groups of 4 students on experiments. More information on the community lab style, including information on how the labs will be graded can be found at this LABS LINK.

Laboratories will cover 5 experiments, four of them lasting 2 weeks, one lasting 3 weeks. At the end of each experiment you will work in the lab to finish a laboratory report and present your findings (and ideas for followup experiments) to the other laboratory working groups.

There will be pre-readings for some laboratories that you will be able to access through WebAssign just like the regular readings.

The recitation sections will be group problem solving. Typically, you will work through an extended multi-part problem, often with a biological context.

 

Week of Recitation Lab Topic Pre-Lab Reading
9/1 NO RECITATION NO LAB
9/8 How big is a worm? Introduction to Community Lab Style
and survey
Introduction to Community Lab Style
ImageJ Download Instructions for Students
9/15 The cat and the antelope Lab 1: Quantifying motion from Images and Videos. Part 1: How do you quantify motion? ImageJ Download Instructions for Students (if you didn't do it already)
Data Analysis with Excel
Excel Quick Reference
9/22 Thinking about forces for objects and systems Lab 1: Quantifying motion from Images and Videos
Part 2: Can you learn biology from physical measurements?
ImageJ Intro Pre-Reading
(RA L1.2 on WebAssign)
ImageJ Quick Reference Sheet
Technical Document Intro To ImageJ
9/29 The DNA Spring Lab 2: Inferring force characteristics from motion analysis. Technical Intro to Video Capture
10/6 Propelling a Paramecium Lab 2: Inferring force characteristics from motion analysis: Error Propagation Technical Intro to Error Propagation
(RA L2.2 on WebAssign)
10/13 Electrical Forces
Hydrogen Bonding
Lab 3a: Observing Brownian Motion Tec Doc: Microscope Basics
Quick Ref.: Video Capture
Tec Doc: Histograms in Excel
Tec Doc: ImageJ Autotracking
10/20 Electrophoresis Lab 3b: Observing Brownian motion Coherent vs random motion (2013)
Diffusion and random walks (2013)
The role of randomness: Biological implications (2013)
10/27 Cell Polarization and Activation
Signal Relay
Lab 3c: Exploring the Diffusion Constant
11/3 Gas Properties
Pressure Recitation
Lab 4: Competition between Brownian motion and directed forces Log-log Plots
Powers and Exponents
11/10 Hold the Mayo
Estimating Capillaries
Lab 4: Competition between Brownian motion and directed forces Log-log Plots: Why do we like them
11/17 Energy Skate Park
Lab 5: Motion and Work in living systems Please watch this video in preparation for lab
11/24 NO RECITATION NO LAB  
12/1 Protein Stability
Lab 5: Motion and Work in living systems Please watch this video in preparation for lab (if you didn't already)
12/8 Temperature Regulation
Makeup Labs and Surveys

 

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Edited by T Antonsen and D Buehrle January 2014