LABORATORY SCHEDULE

general Lab Notebook Information

LAB NOTEBOOKS WILL BE EVALUATED

Week 1

Introduction to lab, and set up for cichlid lab
   
  LAB EXERCISE & ASSIGNMENT
  Maruska and Fernald 2013 "Social Regulation of Male Reproductive Plasticity in an African Cichlid Fish" ICBt. 53: 938-950
   
  FLY LAB HANDOUT for weeks 4 and 6 (LOOK AHEAD for EXTRA READING)

Week 2

Jwatcher cichlid Observation

 

LAB EXERCISE & ASSIGNMENT same as last week

   

Week 3

Statistics Exercise

 

Download the HANDOUT and read it before lab.
If this seems trivially easy to you, download the WORKSHEET and answer all of the questions.
If this still seems trivially easy to you, you can skip the first hour and a half of lab and simply hand in the completed worksheet.
If this is not trivially easy and you think that you would benefit from additional explanation, come to lab on time and we will work through the problem set together.

 

Work on trouble shooting set up for Drosophila Behavior Lab :: ALL RECORDS SHOULD BE IN THE LAB NOTEBOOK

 
WEBSITES :: Before leaving lab today you should have a partner and a topic selected !!! form
 

Week 4

Behavioral Observation Techniques
  ZOO LAB HANDOUT and Excercise to do BEFORE LAB
 

Martin and Bateson Chapter 6-9 :: THIS CONTAINS OBSERVATION METHODS IN MORE DETAIL

  Hosey, G. R. (1997). "Behavioural research in zoos: Academic perspectives." Applied Animal Behaviour Science 51(3-4): 199-207.
  Swaisgood, R. R. and D. J. Shepherdson (2005). "Scientific approaches to enrichment and stereotypies in zoo animals: What's been done and where should we go next?" Zoo Biology 24(6): 499-518.
extra Blumstein, D. and E. Fernandez-Juicic (2010). A Primer of Conservation Behavior, Sinaur. Chapter 1.
extra Lagen, M., KAs, M.J.H., Staal, W.G., van Engeland, H., Durston, S. (2011) The neurobiology of repeptitive behavior: Of mice ... Neurosci. & Behav. Reviews 35:345-355.
   

Week 5

Guppy Male Display and Mate Choice        HANDOUT & EXERCISE
  Dugatkin., L.A. and Godin, J.G.J. (1998) How Females Choose their Mates Scientific American 56-61.
extra Gross, M.R., Suk, Y.Y., Robertson, C.T. 2007 Courtship and genetic quality: asymmetric males show their best side. Poc. Roc. Soc. B
extra Lens, L., Van Dongen, S., Kark, S., and Matthysen, E. (2002) Fluctuating asymmetry as an indicator of fitness: can we bridge the gap between studies? Biol Rev. 77:27-38.
extra Morell, V. (2002) Guppy Sex and Gluttony Guided by Orange Glow. Science 295 :1816b.
& see response letters Jayasooriya (2002) Science 296:847-848.
& see original paper Rodd et al (2002) PRS 69:475-481
eatra Neff, D. Bryan., Pitcher, E. Trevor. (2003) Multiple mating and sequential mate choice in guppies: females trade up. The Royal Society., p1623
   

Oral presentation of Zoo based Grant Proposals :: Put your .ppt on the COURSES SEVER BEFORE LAB

Written Zoo based Grant Proposal is due :: TURN THIS IN BY UPLOADING IT TO COURSES SERVER

 

Week 6

DreamWeaver - Website Construction ::

 
  1. Youand your partner should have begun to research the topic..
  2. You should have a few images of your animal.
  3. You should have selected some research figures that will be appropriate to include.
  4. You should know some other websites that present information about this animal.
  5. You should have several research papers related to your animal behavior.
  6. You should have 1-2 paragraphs written as well as bullet points describing the animal behavior.
  7. You should know whether you want to use Tinbergen’s 4 questions, Dewsburry’s 3 areas or some other scheme to comprehensively describe both proximate and ultimate explanations for your animal behavior.

We will work through the basics of Dreamweaver together

 

Week 7

Execute Drosophila Behavior Lab

 

FLY LAB HANDOUT (same as at link for weeks 1)
   
extra Pennisi (2008) Abuzz about behavior. Science 320:1581
extra Greenspan, R. J. (2004). "E pluribus unum, ex uno plurAlcock_Chapter: Quantitative and single-gene perspectives on the study of behavior." Annual Review of Neuroscience 27: 79-105.
extra Benzer (1973) Genetic Dissection of Behavior Scientific American 229; 24-30.
extra Makay and Anhold (2004) Quantitiative genetic analysis of complex behaviours in Drosophila. NRG 58638-849.
   

Week 9 (after break)

Independent Project Planning - use Project management template

 

Work on Website

 

 

Week 10

Work on Independent projects.

Work on Websites

 

WEEK 11

Work on Independent projects.

Evaluations of each other's websites due Tuesday in lecture ony Nov 6th

 

WEEK 12

Work on Independent projects.

WEEK 13

 

 

Final Website is due at 5:00 PM on Tuesday Nov 20th

WEEK 14

Work on Independent projects.

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND POSTER PREPARATION see template 1 or template 2

POSTERS SHOULD BE PRINTED BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON !
(due to thesis printing you may need to get them monday)

WEEK 15

(tuesday is a thursday: Wednesday is a Friday)

Abstracts dueMONDAY December 3rd at 5:00 PM on the sever

POSTER SESSION TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AT 1:00 STUDENTS MUST ATTEND AT LEAST ON OF THESE

FINALS WEEK

NO FINAL