| Instructors: | Dr. Mark Peifer Fordham 521 962-2271 |
Dr. Ann Burke 334 Wilson Hall 962-3038 |
| Office Hours: | Wednesday 4:00-5:30 | TBA |
| Jan. 8 | Things you should have learned in school- Mendel revisited. Gilbert 192-195 (top) ; 543-6 (top) |
| 13 | Slicing the salami- Setting up the segments in the fruit fly embryo Gilbert 559-565 |
| 15 | How to tell your head from your elbow- Homeotic genes in Drosophila Gilbert 569-571; 574-577 |
| 20 | The egg came first- Dorsal-ventral patterning in Drosophila Gilbert 577-585 |
| 22 | Friends and neighbors- wingless and cell interactions in Drosophila Gilbert 565-569, 115 (Fig. 3.38) |
| 27 | R8 and the seven dwarfs- eye development in Drosophila Gilbert 108-109; 687-690; 910-911 |
| 29 | Putting on the brakes: cell cycle regulation in Drosophila Guest lecture-- Bob Duronio Gilbert 196-201 |
| Feb. 3 | EXAM #1 (covers material through Jan 29th lecture) |
| 5 | Not just for fishing: Introduction to the worm, C. elegans Gilbert 795; 521-524 |
| 10 | Tracing the family tree- Cell lineage genes and lin-12 Gilbert 690-693 |
| 12 | A bag of worms- control of vulval cell fates in C. elegans Gilbert 108-109; 690-691; 910-911 |
| 17 | Worms are just little people in disguise--Vulval cell fates continued |
| 19 | Nature versus nurture; Determination and cell interactions in C. elegans Gilbert 524-529 |
| 24 | Nature versus nurture (continued) |
| 26 | Making connections: axon guidance in C. elegans Gilbert 312-313; 320-321 |
| Mar. 3 | EXAM # 2 (covers material through Feb. 26 lecture) |
General: We want you all to do well. Please take advantage of all of the opportunities to learn and review the material. To facilitate this, attendance at all classes is essential. If you have questions about the material, feel free to bring them to the appropriate faculty member at her/his office hours, or before or after class. Don't wait until the day before the exam, because then its too late. Anyone who falls in the bottom 20% of the class on any of the exams is strongly encouraged to meet with the professor at the earliest possible time, to plan how to improve your performance on the next exam.
Exams, and grading: Class participation counts! =20% of final grade. In addition there will be four exams, each worth 20% of the final grade. Samples of old exams will be on Dr. Peifer's Website = http://www.bio.unc.edu/peifer/teaching.htm these are illustrations only and should not be used for studying purposes, as we may not cover the same material this year as we did previously. Grades will not be assigned for individual exams, only points; you will be able to see how you did from a distribution of scores after each test. Final grades will be assigned on a curve based on the total number of points for the entire semester-- thus a single poor performance will be less likely to adversely affect your grade. Exam questions will be taken from lectures, assigned readings, and journal articles discussed in class. Exams must be taken on the dates indicated during the regular class period; makeup exams will only be given in exceptional circumstances, i.e., medical or family emergency documented in writing. The makeup test may be an oral exam. Grading disputes: If your exam points were added incorrectly, please see one of us. All other requests for exam re-grading must be in the form of a written appeal to the appropriate instructor, justifying why your answer should be accepted, and if accepted, the entire exam may be re-graded. Re-grade requests must be made within two weeks of the exam being returned to you. No exam taken in pencil will be re-graded.
Papers assigned for class: Read assigned papers before the class when they will be discussed. You will be asked about them. Journals will be on reserve in the Zoology library, so you can Xerox your own copy.