Photosynthetic Life -- BSCI 348P and CBMG 688P
Syllabus Spring 2001 (with Tentative Lecture Schedule)
M Jan. 29

Introduction to Photosynthetic Diversity

 B: 102-130
W   31

Prokaryotic Diversity

 B: 422-452
F Feb. 2

Fun with mud: Winogradsky Columns

 B: 650-653
M   5

Individual exercises

 B: 146-162
Photosynthetic Bacteria
W   7

Proteobacteria

 B: 453-470
F   9

Green Sulfur Bacteria & Green Nonsulfur Bacteria

 B: 533-537, 498-502
M   12

Carbon fixation in prokaryotes

  
W   14

Heliobacteria and the evolution of photosynthetic bacteria

 B: 512
F   16

Individual exercises

 B: 573-639
M   19

Oxygenic Photosynthesis: Cyanobacteria

B: 524-529; G: 97-131
W   21

Photosynthetic prokaryotes in the wild : physiology and ecological niche

B: 642-719
F   23

Eutrophication and nuisance organisms in the freshwater environment

 
M   26

Phototrophy in the Archaea

 B :546-552

Plantae, the Eukaryotes with Primary Plastids, Part I: Red and Cyan Plastids
W   28 Overview of Eukaryotic diversity & The Endosymbiotic Origin of Plastids B720-739, GW132-153
F Mar. 2

Contemporary Research Discussion

  
M   5 Midterm Exam  
W   7

Glaucocystophyta - Plastids with cell wall

 GW 1-39
F   9

Rhodophyta - Life cycles, life without flagella, parasitic nuclei, polysaccharides.

 GW 343-396
M   12

Rhodophyta (cont.)

  
W   14

Photosynthetic organisms in the fossil record

 GW40-79
F   16

Contemporary Research Discussion

  
Mar. 19-21: Spring Break

Eukaryotes - Taxa with secondary plastids derived from red algae

M   26 Cryptomonads - The ultrastructure of secondary endosymbiosis GW 169-179
W   28

Introduction to the Heterokonts:
Chrysophyceae -- Xanthophyceae -- Eustigmatophyceae,

GW 232-342
F   30

Bacillariophyta (Diatoms), and Phaeophyta (Brown Algae)

 
M Apr. 2

Adaptation to the intertidal environment

GW 606-639
W   4

Haptophyta (prymnesiophytes)

 GW 180-197
F   6

Phytoplankton Ecology - Algae in the open ocean

 GW 544-571
M   9

Dinoflagellates, Apicomplexa - a microcosm of chloroplast evolution

GW 198-231
W   11

Red tides, mahogany tides, toxin production and shellfish poisoning

 
F   13

Contemporary Research Discussion

  
M   16 Midterm Exam  
Plantae part II: Green Plastids (and Taxa with Green Secondary Plastids)
W   18 Chlorophyta GW 397-419, 452-459
F   20

Algae as model systems, Chlamydomonas

  
M   23

Taxa with secondary plastids from green algae - Euglenophyta

 GW 154-168
W   25

The molecular biology of secondary endosymbiosis - Chlorarachniophyta

  
F   27

Tropical marine green algae & cell differentiation

 GW 420-451
M   30

Terrestrial algae and lichens

 GW 460-493
W May 2

The evolution of cell division

  
F   4

Charophyceae sensu Mattox and Stewart -- the Streptophyta

 GW 494-543

Land Plants: the Drier Algae
M   7 The transition to a terrestrial flora, alternation of generations  
W   9 Structural adaptations & the fossil record of plants and algae  
F   11

Contemporary Research Discussion

  
M   14

Biochemical adaptations to life on land

  
Th May 17 Final Exam , 1229 HJ Patterson Hall, 8:00 am HMM: 409-415