Consent Form For the Beaty Museum and Sustainable Building Tour

Reminders for next weeks events:

Monday: microbiology quiz.  this includes notes as well as information in the disease slide presentation
Wednesday:  field trip to UBC.  Download the consent form
Friday:  Microbial wine and cheese AND virus/bacteria model due.

Our field trip:

We will meet at the CK Choi building and do a walkabout in and around the building.  Microbes are used to take care of the waste in this building.Next, we will proceed to the CIRS building and then make our way to the Beaty museum so we may enter at 10am when it opens.  The Beaty Museum is a research collection of biodiversity. It is like a library.  It's primary purpose is archival. The public is invited to come and take a peek at the specimens.  The flagship specimen is a huge blue whale skeleton collected from the shores of Prince Edward Island.

Quiz on Microbiology: December 17th

based on the microbiology notes and disease slideshow.  this is our last quiz of 2012!

Disease activity

slideshow on disease for our Centre for Disease Control activity:  

Next day we will be doing the CDC activity.  Here are useful links:

Very generalized differences between viral and bacterial infections

A list of bacterial pathogens and viral pathogens (note the error under viral pathogens: botulism is not a viral disease - gov't of australia website made a mistake here!). some of the pathogens are particular to Australia, but others are common worldwide (such as measles, meningitis, salmonella, influenza).  These sites are easy to navigate.

 a more comprehensive list of viral pathogens .  this list is undergraduate level.

CASE STUDIES

Airborne Diseases

            Preventing airborne diseases case study: a viral airborne disease (SARS)

            http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/topics/respirators/factsheets/respsars.html

Managing an airborne disease case study:  a bacterial airborne disease (TB)

            http://www.cdc.gov/tb/pubs/slidesets/InfectionGuidelines/airborne.htm

STI: 

http://www.cdc.gov/std/default.htm

Foodborne:http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/facts.html

dine safe website: a comprehensive list of health inspection reports for any restaurant!

Animal vector:

            Vertebrates mainly :

http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/browse_by_diseases.htm

Insect vector: note only the ones caused by virus and bacteria:

http://www.capitalhealth.ca/EspeciallyFor/TravellersHealth/InsectTransmittedDiseases/default.htm

Waterborne:

http://www.azdhs.gov/phs/oids/epi/disease/waterborne/list.htm

Microbiology, An Introduction

Today you will go over the Introduction to Microbiology Notes, which cover Virus, and Monerans, with a mention of unicellular fungi.  You will also be given our Microbial Wine and Cheese assignment.  due date TBA.  And finally, our virus in a box assignment: below:

Make a model of a virus or bacterium of your choice.  Make it out of any material.  It must fit within a shoebox. 

the model:  10
it is complete and presented well: 4
the write up is on the outside of the shoebox:  6 marks:

bonus marks for the best three assignments.


   on the sides of the shoebox: 
side 1:  name of the virus or bacterium and a description
side 2:  disease that it causes in humans
side 3:  what is your name, draw a picture of yourself and describe a disease you had in the past (not the same disease that is in the box.
side 4:  a picture of the virus.

Bamfield Video Conferencing! Learning Evolution from a Baby Grey whale Skeleton

Dr. Hana Kucera and Dr. David Riddel will be guest speakers via video conferencing in our biology course.  Stay tuned for an opportunity to learn about ecology and evolution from marine educators .  Ask questions and interact with Canada's premiere marine science station.   We will arrange for our video conferencing session in the next two weeks.

Evolution notes - Quiz next tuesday

There will be a Quiz on evolution next tuesday.  We will go over these notes today in detail.

The following notes summarize our lessons in evolution
Evolution
How evolutionary change occurs

also images from a discussion on
punctuated equilibrium
natural selection
For those of you following along in the Miller and Levine text, this material is covered in chapters 13 and 14.

Quiz will be based on the notes and include multiple choice and short answer.  When you hand this in, there will be an open book portion where you will be expected to identify fossils.  You may use your lab notes for this portion of the quiz.

Fossil Lab

There was a lecture on Geological time, a video on why we ought to be grateful to be related to jawed ancestors, and also box sets of fossils, which, like chocolate boxes, come with a nice legend so you can see which one to sample first.  This lab will take two periods, after which, you will hand in your colour coded geological timeline with your observations of known and unknown fossil specimens.

Fossil stations include:
1.  comparative anatomy of modern and fossil animals:  boxed samples
2.  Wards fossil box (little samples, use the lenses)
3.  unknown sample set, mainly plants,  including a gingko fossil, with some modern gingko for comparison
4.  Texas Cordova Shell limestone, dating back to the cretaceous, and featuring Trigonia, a clam-like shell and turritella, a tightly spiraled snail-like creature.

Draw, observe, place in the correct location on the timeline and hand in wednesday.