| Instructor: | Karen Oegema & Terry Hwa; e-mail: , |
| Time/Location: | Friday 3 – 5pm; Urey Hall 6120 |
| Course URL: | this page; https://matisse.ucsd.edu/courses/w20-qbio-critical-reading |
| Prerequisite: | interest in quantitative biology; consent of instructor |
Course activity:
| Date | class activity | assignment | |
| W1 | Fri, Jan 10 |
Intro to geometric morphometrics by Scott Rifkin | read ms #1a: review of geometric morphometrics by Lawing & Polly |
| W2 | Fri, Jan 17 |
discuss drosophila wing disc development with Scott [further optimal reading] |
read ms #1b: Quantitative morphological variation in the developing Drosophila Wing. |
| W3 | Fri, Jan 24 |
Intro to limb size and chondrocyte development by Kim Cooper (ppt) [cornstalk paper] [size and proliferation] |
read ms #2: Chondrocyte swelling and skeletal proportion. |
| W4 | Fri, Jan 31 |
discuss ms #2 with Kim Cooper | |
| W5 | Fri, Feb 7 |
prepare for group presentation | |
| W6 | Fri, Feb 14 |
present group project | |
| W7 | Fri, Feb 21 |
Intro to heart physiology and atrial fibrillation by Wouter-Jan Rappel (ppt) | read ms #3: review of cardiac arrhythmogenesis |
| W8 | Fri, Feb 28 |
further presentation by W. Rappel | |
| W9 | Fri, Mar 7 |
prepare for group project #2 | |
| W10 | Fri, Mar 14 |
present group project #2 |