BIOLOGY 425-BIOLOGY SEMINAR

Tuesday class: 10:00 AM- 12:00 PM (Start on 5/10/2011)

Room 109 Biology

COURSE OUTLINE

Time & Place:
10:00 am - 12:00 pm on Tuesdays. Room rm 109 in the biology building.

Grading policy: Class participation and attendance (20%). Sometime within the semester you will be required to conduct an oral presentation (in some cases this may be done with a partner). The oral presentation will be a major part of the grade (70%). A comprehensive Final Exam in essay format (10%). It is not so bad- easy.

You will be required to sign up on a topic, research that topic and organize a presentation in which you will then present to the class. The class will ask questions and you are to encourage a discussion of the topic and answer questions from the audience.

Link for topics and papers
Go to the http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
These journals offer you some topics that might be of interest to you for the course. Note--you have to be on a UK computer for full access to the papers for some of the journals.

Pick a topic and be able to present it either via Power point or overhead or even on the chalk board. Plan on a 20 minutes presentation so then we can have 5 to 10 minutes of questions and discussion. This way about 30 minutes per person before going on to the next person.

You can email me your topic then I will post it on the www site so others will know what topic you choose.

Presentors:

Diaz
Lau
Wilson

Dates:

May 10 .....................Moore (ICUAW- intensive care unit-acquired weakness and muscle wasting)

May 17..... Greenlee ( Nosocomial Infections: Impact on Domestic and International Healthcare)

................White (Myonuclear domains in aging)

................West (diabetes)

May 24 .......L (food preservation techs/concerns)  

............................ Morgan (Respiratory issues in Kentucky, focusing on COPD causes and risk).

...... ALL OTHER PRESENTORS and FINAL EXAM

May 31 .... use this time to do your own self assessment...... view your DVDs and make out comments of how you would improve your presentation. (NO class.... work at home or library)