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Lecture Title & Info Lecturer
1
6/20

Introduction

Readings:
Aidley p 264-286
KSJ p 507-516

Handouts:
First day handout (policies & info)

Kerry Kim
2
6/27

Photoreceptors, visual pigments and electric potentials

Readings:
Aidley Chapter 15
KSJ (4th edition) Chapter 26 and p 572-577
KSJ (3rd edition) Chapter 28 and p 467-470

Kerry Kim
3
7/5

The rod transduction cascade

How/where to view this lecture

Readings:
Rieke, F., and D. A. Baylor, 1998, "Single-photon detection by rod cells of the retina," Reviews of Modern Physics, 70(3), 1027-1036. Download [PDF] [From Publisher Site (UW restricted)]

And one of the following:
Aidley Chapter 10 p 173-190
or KSJ (4th edition) Chapter 14 p 253-270
or KSJ (3rd edition) Chapter 13

Kerry Kim
4
7/11

Synapses: Overview & Presynaptic mechanisms

Readings: (one of the following)
Aidley Chapter 10 p 173-190
or KSJ (4th edition) Chapter 14 p 253-270
or KSJ (3rd edition) Chapter 13

Kerry Kim
5
7/18

Synaptic transmission--Postsynaptic Mechanisms

Readings: (one of the following)
Aidley  p 19-21, 26-29, 149-165
or KSJ (3rd edition) p 81-89, 135-144, 153-158, 173-186

Erika Eggers
6
7/25

Ion channels: Structure & Function

Readings: (one of the following)
Aidley  p 13-21,26-29, 35-40, 54-65, 76-84
or KSJ (3rd edition) p 73-78, chapters 6 & 8

Kerry Kim
7
8/1

Signal Transmission: The Action Potential

Readings: (one of the following)
Aidley Chapter 4
or KSJ (3rd edition) Chapters 7 & 8

Erika Eggers
8
8/8

The Retina and Beyond: Adaptation, receptive fields and optical illusions

Readings:

Werblin, F (1991) "Synaptic connections, receptive fields, and patterns of activity in the tiger salamander retina. A simulation of patterns of activity formed at each cellular level from photoreceptors to ganglion cells [the Friendenwald lecture]" Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 32(3):459-83. [Not avaliable online]

And one of the following:
Aidley chapters 5 & 13
or KSJ (3rd edition) chapters 28 & 29

Kerry Kim
9
8/15

Forces in biological systems

Readings: (one of the following)
Aidley chapter 14
or KSJ (3rd edition) chapters 32 & 33

Kerry Kim

 

 
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