Course Description
Term: Fall 2022
Course Director: Carol Bucking
Day/Time: Wednesday @ 1pm
Location: R S156
Start and End Dates: September 28 to November 09, 2022
This course focuses on global environmental change (past and present) covering broad ranges of topics: from changing global temperatures to ocean acidification. Changing environments are discussed in terms of the resulting physiological stresses and adaptations that have occurred/are occurring in diverse taxa. Emphasis is placed on basic physiology principals, biochemistry, and molecular biology in the context of evolution and ecology.
Environmental change is a source of physiological stress and one of the main drivers of physiological adaptation across diverse groups of organisms. This course focuses on global environmental change (past and present) covering a broad range of topics: from changing global temperatures, to ocean acidification, to changes in oxygen availability. These global changes are discussed in terms of the resulting physiological stresses and adaptations that have both occurred and are presently occurring. Both vertebrate and invertebrate organisms are used as models. Emphasis is placed on basic principles of physiology, along with biochemistry and molecular biology. A holistic approach is featured and both classical and modern techniques and studies are explored. Overall, a genome to biome approach is used in the perspective of environmental adaptations, illuminating evolution and ecology in a physiological context.
Evaluation:
Participation – 20%
Seminar 1 – 40%
Grant Proposal – 40%
Faculty Resources:
Faculty qualified to teach (alphabetical order):
Dr. Carol Bucking
Dr. Andrew Donini
Dr. Scott P. Kelly
Dr. Jean-Paul Paluzzi
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-CELL PHYSIOLOGY
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-GASTROINTESTINAL AND LIVER PHYSIOLOGY
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-LUNG CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
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AMERICAN NATURALIST
ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS
ANNUAL REVIEW OF PHYSIOLOGY
BEHAVIOURAL ECOLOGY
BIOLOGY LETTERS
COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR&INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY&MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
ECOLOGY
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EVOLUTION
EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY
JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSIOLOGY
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART A-ECOLOGICAL GENETICS AND PHYSIOLOGY
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ISME JOURNAL
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
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NATURE
PFLUGERS ARCHIV-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY
PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL ZOOLOGY
PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS
PHYSIOLOGICAL GENOMICS
PHYSIOLOGY
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
SCIENCE
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION