Lecture / Exam Schedule - Summer 2001
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June 21 - Th |
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June 26 - Tu |
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June 27 - W X-hour |
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June 28 - Th |
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5 |
July 3 - Tu |
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July 4 - W |
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Independence Day Holiday |
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July 5 - Th |
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Exam #1 lectures 1-4 in class |
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6 |
July 10 - Tu |
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7 |
July 11 - W X-hour |
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8 |
July 12 - Th |
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9 |
July 17 - Tu |
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July 18 - W X-hour |
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Review session - during X-hour Exam #2 lectures 5-8 7-9 PM |
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10 |
July 19 - Th |
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11 |
July 24 - Tu |
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July 25 - W X-hour |
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Lab overview |
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12 |
July 26 - Th |
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July 30 - M |
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Lab report #1 due at noon |
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13 |
July 31 - Tu |
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14 |
August 1 - W X-hour |
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15 |
August 2 - Th |
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16 |
August 7 - Tu |
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Computational Biology -- lecture notes Computational Biology - download powerpoint presentation Bob Gross - guest lecturer |
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August 8 - W X-hour |
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Review session during X-hour Exam #3 lectures 9-15 7-9 PM |
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17 |
August 9 - Th |
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18 |
August 14 - Tu |
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19 |
August 16 - Th |
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August 20 - M |
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Lab report #2 due at noon |
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August 21 - Tu |
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August 23-25 |
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Review Session for Final , TBA Final Exam lectures 16-20 |
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Prof. Tom Jack, 112 Gilman
Office Hours - 4-5 PM Wednesday (except 7/11) - If this time is not convenient, feel free to blitz and set up another time.
Prof. Sharon Bickel, 312 Gilman
Office Hours - 4-5 PM Monday (except 7/23) - If this time is not convenient, feel free to blitz and set up another time.
Regular classes and X-hours will be held in 006 Steele.
Hayley Webber - Tuesday afternoon section
John Connolly - Tuesday evening section
Yingzhen Yang - Thursday afternoon section
Dhanalakshmi Nair - Thursday evening section
The TAs are most easily contacted via Blitzmail
Ann Lavanway and Hazel Scott - 213 Gilman
First Exam (July 5) 15%
Second Exam (July 18) 15%
Third Exam (August 8) 20%
Final Exam 25%
Lab 25%
The median grade in this course the past several years has been a B. If there are a large number of either outstanding performances or very poor performances this summer then the median will be different and will reflect the overall performance of the class.
You are responsible for material that is covered in class. Most, but not all, of the lecture material is also in the textbook. Note that not everything in the chapters listed in the lecture schedule will be covered in lecture.
The topics and dates listed in the syllabus are approximate. Some of the topics might be covered in less than one lecture period, while others might take more. Think of the chapters as guides to what will be covered in class and as a reference to class notes.
The textbook for the course is Genes VII by Benjamin Lewin. The textbook is available both at the Dartmouth Bookstore and at Wheelock Books.
Many of the figures and text from Genes VII are available at Ben Lewin's "Ergito" web site: http://www.ergito.com/. The web site contains animations and citations that are not in the textbook.
A laboratory manual will be handed out during the first week of lab. The lab manual will also be posted on the Bio 23 web site.
Please disregard the section assignments made by the Registrar's office. You must complete a lab section assignment form to be assigned to a lab section.
You have four lab sections from which to choose:
Thursday 2-6 PM and 7-11 PM.
Please fill out and return the lab section request form to 213 Gilman by 12:00 PM on Friday June 22. We will let you know your section assignment via blitz, hopefully by 10 AM on Monday, June 25.
The lab meets for the first time on Tuesday, June 26 and Thursday, June 28.
The lab meets in 208 Remsen. Lab lectures will be held in 216 Remsen.
Attendance at all labs is required for completion of the course.
We have set up a web site for the course. The site will contain class lecture notes and other useful items. The URL is: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~bio23/
The lab is worth 25% of the overall grade, and is broken down as follows:
Lab report #1 8%
Lab report #2 12%
Pre-lab questions 5%
We encourage students with documented disabilities, including "invisible" disabilities like chronic diseases and learning disabilities, to discuss with one of the professors appropriate accommodations that might be helpful. Please contact Prof. Jack or Prof. Bickel during the first week of class so that we have the time to implement any accommodations. All discussions will remain confidential.
The Dartmouth College Student Handbook states "Fundamental to the principle of independent learning are the requirements of honesty and integrity in the performance of academic assignments, both in the classroom and outside. Dartmouth operates on the principle of academic honor, without proctoring of examinations. Students who submit work which is not their own or who commit other acts of academic dishonesty forfeit the opportunity to continue at Dartmouth." There are a number of situations in which a student in Biology 23 might find him or herself tempted to violate the Academic Honor Principle. These situations include (but are not limited to) the following:
a) Examinations must be completed without reference to written materials other than those provided with the exam paper and must be completed without communication with anyone else (the only permissible exception is that students may request clarification of any exam question from the course faculty and staff who are present expressly for that purpose). The answers that you provide must be entirely your own work.
b) Under certain circumstances, we may allow exams to be re-graded by the instructors. Any alteration of the answers between the time when the graded papers were returned to the student and the time when the paper was submitted for re-grading constitutes a breach of the Academic Honor Principle. To deter this practice, we photocopy exam pages.
c) Laboratory experiments are performed in pairs, and we encourage collaborative analysis of the data. However, any report submitted for grading must represent the original words of the student submitting that report. Do not share computer files of work (including text, graphs, tables, etc.) to be submitted for grading! The student misrepresenting the work of another as his or her own is in violation of the Academic Honor Principle and it is quite possible that the Committee on Standards might find the student providing the original file also to be in violation.
Honesty is the foundation of the academic pursuit of knowledge. In recognition of this, the faculty and staff of Biology 23 will not overlook any violations of the Academic Honor Principle. Indeed, the Faculty Handbook of Dartmouth College states explicitly that College Faculty is obligated to report potential violations of the Academic Honor Principle to the Dartmouth College Committee on Standards.
Lab Schedule
Yeast two-hybrid, plating the mating
ß-galactosidase activity assays
"Smash and grab"
Transformation of E. coli with shuttle plasmids
Colony PCR
Agarose gel electrophoresis
Mini-preparation of plasmid DNA
PCR
Restriction enzyme digest
Sequencing of plasmid DNA
DNA fragment isolation and elution
Ligation
Transformation of ligations into electrocompetent E. coli
Colony PCR