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 & 6 (LOOK AHEAD for EXTRA READING)

Week 2

Jwatcher cichlid Observation
 

LAB EXERCISE & ASSIGNMENT same as last week
   

Week 3
Behavioral Observation Techniques
  ZOO LAB HANDOUT and Excercise to do BEFORE LAB
 

Martin and Bateson Chapter 5-7 :: 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.
  Martin, M. and D. Shepherdson (2012). "The role of familiarity and preference on reproductive success in ex-situ conservation breeding programs." Conservation Biology 26(4).
  Reading, R. P., B. Miller, D. Shepherdson and E. Insalaco (2013). "The Value of Enrichment to Reintroduction Success." Zoo Biology 32: 332-341
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 4

Zoo Lab Presentations MUST be on server before lab!
 

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 !!!
 

Week 5

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
BEFORE YOU LEAVE: ZIP together all Dreamweaver files and save them on the server.
FLY LAB: You will have additional time to work on your fly lab protocol:
SAVE A PROTOCOL DRAFT TO THE SERVER BEFORE YOU LEAVE

Week 6
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.
  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

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.
  Independent Project Planning - use Project management template

Week 8 (after break)

Independent Project Planning - use Project management template

 

OPTIONAL LAB
   

 

Week 9

Work on Independent projects.

Work on Websites

 

WEEK 10
Work on Independent projects.

 

 

WEEK 11

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 2 hours 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.

 

WEEK 12
 

 

Final Website is due NEXT week at 5:00 PM on Tuesday December 1st

WEEK 13

Work on Independent projects.

Final Website is due THIS week at 5:00 PM on Tuesday December 1st

 

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 14

(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