LAB
CONTENT:
Each lab exercise
will have a www page associated with it. On the www page one will find
movies, protocols to conduct the laboratory exercise, and resources to
download. It is expected that one will view the movie and laboratory protocols
prior to coming to the lab period. There will be a prequiz upon arriving
in the lab. This quiz will also be used for purposes of an attendance
check. The quiz will address the purpose of the laboratory exercise and
the basics of how it will be conducted.
There will be two formal laboratory reports due. One will be due by midterm
and the other will be due by the beginning of dead week (assignments are
not suppose to be given during dead week by UK policy rules). The write
up for two lab exercises will need to be as if you were planning to submit
it to a journal for peer review by other research scientist. The format
will be as that described for the Journal of Comparative Biochemistry
and Physiology - Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology. Go to
the www and look up information for authors on this journal's home page.
SAMPLES:
Letter to students via BB (MS
word, PDF)
Sample
cover
letter to paper-1; Sample
paper-1; when published-PDF-1
Sample
cover
letter to paper-2; Sample
paper-2; when published-PDF-2
More
detail on the grading for the lab write up. PDF.
STATS,
graphs and group data for the lab write up. PDF.
The results of
your laboratory exercises and of all the other students across all sections
will be posted on line. This data is to be used in your formal write ups.
Put your results in perspective of the whole. Statistical analysis is
REQUIRED and discussion of the analysis is expected.
Each laboratory
section has 1 TA (graduate teaching assistant) and 1 facilitator (an undergraduate
student) assigned. The "facilitator" will be collecting data
from your experiments weekly and posting it on a www page for your section.
All the sections have a www page with their data posted. This is the data
that will be used in the formal write ups. The data will be discussed
in lecture. The underlying concepts of the laboratory exercises will be
on lecture exams. Content presented in lecture and laboratories are expected
to be integrative such that content on quizzes in lecture or the lab can
be mixed. No laboratory or section will have an advantage over the others
as quizzes are different for each section and lecture exams are constructed
so as not to cover content that particular sections might not have experience
yet during the week.
The "manual"
for the exercises is what will be posted on line within the www pages
for each experiment. This is so the students will not have to buy a manual.
You will be responsible for printing it out or having, in some means,
the protocol to use for the laboratory period. Hard copies will not be
provided. Overall this should save the students money. We cannot guarantee
that the laboratories will have internet accessible during the lab period,
but most likely one should be able to get on the www. So don't rely on
the live feed from the www for your laboratory period. If you want, download
on to a flash drive and bring to the lab.
The TA's will be
grading quizzes and all material associated with the laboratories as well
as being responsible for taking attendance checks. The facilitators will
be helping in conducting the experiments and gathering data from you.
They will have your email address and you are responsible for getting
information to them in a reasonable amount of time so the spread sheets
can be posted on line.
The
TA's and facilitators are present to make the laboratory experience a
valuable part of your learning experience.
Laboratory
conduct:
Every student will have to have completed the on line safety test and
bring to the lab on the 1st day of your section meeting time. It is an
easy test and you can take it multiple times until you get a 100 % . Either
save and email your TA or print it out and bring to the lab. The TA will
check you off for having completed the exercise.
http://ehs.uky.edu/classes/chemhyg/chemclass.php
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Morgan building, Room 202, phone 257- 5950
Animal
care:
Even though you will be using primarily invertebrate animals in these
laboratories no torture of the animals is allowed. If any torturing occurs
to the animals it is reason to be expelled from
the course with an "I" (incomplete) or possible a "W"
(withdrawal) depending the timing within the semester.
No horse play, cutting up, playing ball etc.. allowed in the laboratory
period. Squirting someone with a solution in a syringe or a water bottle
can be dangerous. You might know it is water but another person does not.
3M KCl can be very harmful if squirted by accident in someone's eye.
We
will use a fixative in the lab. The fix solution is a Bouin's solution
(Prepared with saturated picric acid, formaldehyde and acetic acid; Sigma-Aldrich
Co.). Some people are very allergic to
the vapors of formaldehyde. If you
know you are allergic please inform the instructor (Dr. Cooper) as soon
as possible so we can make alternative plans. The fix solution is to remain
in the vented hood.
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