Courses

• GRS BI 623: Marine Biogeochemistry
  Oceanic nutrient and biogeochemical cycling in the context of the marine response to global change. Links between local and global scales are emphasized. Topics include oceanic productivity, iron limitation, oceanic glacial carbon dioxide budget, biogenic particle fluxes, oceanic glacial-interglacial biogeochemistry.
• GRS BI 625: General Endocrinology
  Chemical and physiological principles of hormonal integration in animals, emphasizing chemistry, biosynthesis, mechanisms of action, and homeostatic function of vertebrate hormones. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion
• GRS BI 642: Physiology and Biochemistry of Reproduction
  Physiology and biochemistry of the ovarian cycle, spermatogenesis, and fertilization. Hormonal control of gametogenesis and gestation. Biochemistry of accessory sex glands. Fertility and sterility. Problems of population control, birth control, and abortion. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion. (Offered alternate years)
• GRS BI 643: Terrestrial Biogeochemistry
  The patterns and processes controlling carbon and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. Links between local and global scales are emphasized. Topics include net primary production, nutrient use efficiency, and biogeochemical transformation.
• GRS BI 644: Neuroethology
  
• GRS BI 645: Cellular and Molecular Neurophysiology
  Cellular and molecular basis of neural excitability and synaptic transmission. The molecular understanding of ion channels is extrapolated to higher brain functions such as learning, memory, and sleep. Three hours lecture, three hours lab.
• GRS BI 646: Biology of the Cell Cycle
  Temporal organization and regulation of cellular function. Includes theory and analysis of methodologies applicable to cell proliferation kinetics, cell synchrony, and FACS sorting; molecular genetics, biochemistry, and physiology of cell cycle phses. Emphasis is placed on the molecular regulation of growth and differentiation in eukaryotic organisms, from yeast to humans. Readings in original research literature. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion.
• GRS BI 648: Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
  The study of biological diversity and modern methods to protect endangered plant and animal species. The environment, population, genetic, and human factors which affect the survival of species examined for temperate and tropical communities, as well as terrestrial and aquatic habitats. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion.
• GRS BI 654: Cell Motility and Cytoskeleton
  Investigation of the structures, molecules, and forces responsible for muscle contraction, cell locomotion, chromosome movement and cell division, ciliary and flagellar motion, bacterial chemotaxis, and other types of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell motility. Three hours lecture, with discussions.
• GRS BI 655: Developmental Neurobiology
  Fundamental principles of developmental neurobiology. Course stresses molecular mechanisms that underlie early neural development, differentiation, process outgrowth, and behavior. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion.
• GRS BI 668: Marine Microbial Ecology
  Survey of the diversity of marine bacteria, algae, protozoan, fungi, and metazoan. Focus on fundamental role of their communities in the flow of materials and energy through aquatic ecosystems from Arctic to deep sea vents. Laboratory exercises examine the theory and application of many methodological advances in the area of field microbial ecology. Taught at Woods Hole.
• GRS BI 678: Experimental Marine Biology
  Offers an opportunity for students to conduct in-depth individual research projects in marine biology. Students present their scientific results in a symposium. Lectures concentrate on experimental design, presentation of results, and ethics of science. Taught at Woods Hole.
• GRS BI 685: Biology of Single Cell Eukaryotes
  Free-living, symbiotic and pathogenic unicellular eukaryotes: their taxonomy, distribution, structure, reproduction, life-cycles, metabolism, feeding, development, physiology, behavior, and use as experimental models in cell biology.
• GRS BI 699: Teaching College Biology I
  The goals, contents, and methods of instruction in biology. General teaching-learning issues. Required of all teaching fellows.
• GRS BI 708: Biochemical and Molecular Aspects of Development
  Aspects of eukaryotic animal and plant development as they are currently understood on a biochemical or molecular level are discussed in detail. The usefulness of generalizing from the data available and possible generalization to less well understood systems are discussed. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion
• GRS BI 735: Advanced Cell Biology
  Current understanding of essential topics and important problems in modern cell biology, with emphasis on recent experimental findings, research strategies and approaches, and new techniques for ivestigating how cells work. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion.
• GRS BI 753: Adv Mol Biology
  This course description is currently under construction.
• GRS BI 755: Cellular and Systems Neurosceince
  Survey course in neurobiology. Topics to be covered include: cell biology of the neuron, development of the nervous system, synaptic plasticity, learning and behavior, and netwerk modeling. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion.
• GRS BI 756: Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience
  Team taught survey course in neuroscience. Topics to be covered include cortical structures, information processing, synaptic plasticity, learning and memory, and perception. Lectures will draw on reading from current scientific literature.
• GRS BI 903: Research in Cellular Morphology
  

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