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The Evolutionary Genetics Course is a 3 credit course for graduates and advanced undergraduates. Undergraduates will have to have completed a BIO 300 level course to be eligible to enroll, or have to get permission. The course will cover the following topics: deterministic models with one or two loci, mutation and drift, models and theory of selection, fitness landscapes, evolutionary game theory, recombination, sexual selection, molecular clocks, and the coalescent. The course will be taught on two days a week. The books accompanying this course are: Freeman and Herron, Evolutionary Analysis, 4th Edition, AND Hartl and Clark, Principles of Population Genetics, 4th Edition. They are available in the UB Bookstore.
To download the 2008 student rating of this course - go <HERE>.
evolutionary genetics 456/556 - Next Course: fall 2010
Graduate Student Seminar 610 - Spring 2008
Graduate Student Seminar gives students the opportunity to practice their presentation skills. Students in the Biological Science Department have to present a peer reviewed research paper (1st presentation), as well as their own data relating to their thesis research (2nd presentation). Presentations are about 45-50 minutes long. For suggestions about how NOT to make a power point presentation, see what comedian Don McMillan has to say <HERE>.
For hints on preparing and giving a presentation, download a pdf <HERE>.
To download the 2008 student rating of this course - go <HERE>.
Medical Entomology/ Parasitology 317 - new course/fall 2009
This 3 credit course is geared towards students with an interest in parasitology, and medical entomology. It is therefore well suited for students planning on a career in medicine, veterinary medicine, public health, or epidemiology. The syllabus is designed to provide the student with basic knowledge about the impact of arthropods on animal and human health. During the course we will cover arthropod vectors, and the major disease causing pathogens they transmit, and learn about important arthropod-pathogen interrelationships in the context of ecological, evolutionary, and epidemiological factors. The course will involve fieldwork and experiments in the Western New York region. Requirements to enroll: BIO 200.
EEB Colloqium EEB 553 - Fall 2008
The colloquium of the Ecology - Evolutionary Biology - Behavioral Science program covers various topics each semester relating to the core disciplines of the program. In the Fall 2008 semester I will cover a section on “Parasitism and Convergence”. The introductory lesson can be downloaded <HERE>.