Specialized Studies of Selected Research Procedures, Strategies or Topics

Subject: 
Biology (BIOL)
Catalog number: 
680
Unit weight: 
0.50
Meet type: 
RDG
Grading basis: 
NUM
Cross-listing(s): 
N/A
Requisites: 
Department Consent Required
Description: 
Critical evaluation and discussion of topics and procedures in biology that are not covered in existing graduate courses. The course must be specially arranged with a faculty member. Students may take only one BIOL 680 course for credit. (Offered to Master's students only.)
Topic titles: 
1 Growth Cycle of Seal Vibrissae
2 Physiology of Dreissenidae Mussels
3 Production and Fate of Planktonic Bacteria
4 Zooplankton Communities of Fishless Lakes
5 The Biodegradation of TNT
6 Aquatic Primary Production
7 Membrane Fluidity and Cell Signaling
8 Regulation of Macrophage Differentiation
9 Biochemistry and Germ Warfare
10 Topics in Sedimentology
11 Comparative Genomics
12 Oil Sands' Related Toxicity
13 The Statistical Analysis of Dive Data
14 Small HSP Gene Expression and Function
15 Diving Physiology of Harbor Seals
16 Nursing Patterns of Harbor Seal Pups
17 Cell Biology of Phagocytsis
18 Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria
19 Transgenic Plants and Ethylene
20 The Feeding Ecology of Caribou
21 Alcohol Fermentation
22 Regulat. of ACC Deaminase Expn
23 Experimental Design
24 Stress Response & Nucleotides
25 Paleoecology of Mexican Wetlands
26 Algal Nutrition
27 Stable Isotopes in Ecology
28 Comparative Physiol of the Eye
29 General and Ocular Toxicology
30 Pathogens in Treatment Wetlands
31 Copper: Metabolism and Toxicity
32 Benthic Microbial Foodwebs
33 Fish Habitat Requirements
34 Nodaviruses and Fish
35 Analysis of Adenosine Kinase
36 Brown Trout Spawning Ecology
37 Applications in Bioinformatics
38 Biological Hydrogen Production
39 Advanced Ocular Toxicology
40 Bacterial ACC Deaminase Genes
41 Heat Shock Protein 47
42 Embryonic Stem Cell Technology
43 Methods in Proteomics
44 Programmed Cell Death
45 Sci Info Retrieval & Management
46 Pathogen-Root Interactions
47 Ion Uptake in Roots
48 Biology of Colon Cancer
49 Biochem and Mol Biol of Plants
50 Fish Physiology
51 Adv Applications in Proteomics
52 The Biotic Ligand Model
53 T-cell Receptor
54 Microinjection in Embryology
55 Phosphorus in lakes
56 Viruses in wastewater
57 Neuronal Effectors NMJ Frmtn
58 Molecular Biology of Apoptosis
59 sHsps: Expression & Functions
60 Environmental Toxicology
61 Genetics of Flowering Time
62 Molecular ecology of toxic algae
63 Methods of Aquatic Ecology
64 Special Topics in Bioinformatics
65 Eukaryotic sHsps
66 Diagnostics
67 Topics in Beluga Ecology
68 Integrated Environ. Toxicology
69 Plant Developmental Biology
70 Ethylene in Root Development
71 Phosphorus in Rivers
72 Lipid modulation - cell growth
73 Neuregulin in muscle develpmnt
74 Steroid Hormones & Colon Cancer
75 Bacterial toxins and membranes
76 Current Topics in Apoptosis
77 Cyanobacterial taxonomy
78 Topics in Arctic Charr Ecology
79 Macrophages & Atherosclerosis
80 Corticosteroids & Osmoregulatn
81 Protein-Protein Interactions
82 Stress Detection in Wildlife
83 Microbial Physiology and Biochemistry
84 Physiological role of lipids
85 Sub-arctic Salmon Ecology
86 Molecular Immunology
87 ACC Deaminase in Plants
88 Regulation of Cav2 channels
89 Bacterial Promoter
90 Anoxia adaptation in mammals
91 Contaminant impacts food webs
92 LC/MS/MS Ionization Interfaces
93 Trnsarctc seaweed distribution
94 Risk Assessment
95 Eukaryotic Cell Cycle
96 Scientific Communication
97 Special Topics - Cell Biology
98 Arctic Marine Mammal Research
99 History of Aquatic Ecology
100 Bacterial Endophytes
101 Loops & Turns-Protein Folding
102 Metabolism in Surface Waters
103 Advanced Algal Ecophysiology
104 Genetic Basis of Colon Cancer
105 SWNTs Drug Delivery Systems
106 Techniques in species issues
107 Actin Binding Proteins
108 Genomic & Nongenomic signaling
109 Regulation of CAM trafficking
110 Cytotaxonomy
111 Protein Aggregation
112 Pulmonary surfactant function
113 Studies in Fish Feedg Ecology
114 Cell Comm & Fate in Plants
115 The cell biology of the fish gastrointestinal trac
116 Plankton Modelling
117 Scientific Communication
118 Calcium channel beta subunits
119 Oilsands Risk Assessment
120 Survey of CNS Regeneration
121 Stress in Animals
122 The Expression and Function of Stress Induced Prot
123 Structure and Catalysis in Ribonucleic acids
124 Applications - Wetland Technol
125 Evolution of chemokines
126 Biomedical Nanotechnology
127 Plant Tissue Culture & Biotechnology
128 Neural Tube Morphogenesis
129 Fish Community Assessment
130 Circulating heat shock proteins in animals
131 Proteasomes and HSPs
132 Models of SOD folding and misfolding
133 Advances in Molecular Toxicology
134 Biochemical Pharmacology
135 Phage Therapy: Clinical Apps
136 Bio-directed toxicity id eval
137 Fish Disease & Immunity
138 Ethylene biosynthesis genes
139 Amyloidosis on neuron cells
140 Aquatic Toxicology in Vitro
141 Lysosomes and cell death
142 Gene Delivery
143 Metabolism of Hyperthermophile
144 Earthworms & Ecotoxicology
145 Urban Stream Syndrome
146 Plankton modeling in lakes
147 Ecotoxicology - O2 fluctuation
148 Bacterial Stress Responses
149 Topics in Biological Control
150 Viral Diseases Freshwater Fish
151 Proteasome inhibitors
152 Environmental appl of SPME
153 Immune System of the Fish gut
154 Ecological Monitoring
155 Fundamntls of Crystallography
156 Plant-beneficial soil bacteria
157 SIP and metagenomics study
158 HSP Expression and Function
159 Programmed Cell Death
160 Video Protocol Development
161 GF Regulated Cell Adhesion
162 Curcumin & stress proteins
163 Magnetic Nanoparticles
164 Oil Sands Aquatic Toxicology
165 Magnetic Nanoparticles
166 Cholesterol in Membrane
167 Serotonergic Systems
168 Cell Biology of p53
169 Aquatic Photosynthesis
170 Anti-androgens: Fish Repro
171 Virus-nanoparticle Intractions
172 Inclusion Body Formation
173 Cell Polarity
174 Anammox in natural environment
175 Heat Shock Protn Gene Expressn
176 Neuroprotective Effects - PDGF
177 Trends in pulp mill quality
178 Bacterial IAA biosynthesis
179 Biogeochemical Microbiology
180 Tracing P using 18O isotopes
181 Phytoremediation
182 Data Analysis in Neuroscience
183 Retinal embryogenesis
184 T-Type Ca2+ Channels Hearts
185 Metal Bioavailability
186 Signal Transduction
187 Cell Cycle Biology
188 MH Gene Polymorphism in Salmon
189 Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels
190 Bacterial Antifreeze Proteins
191 Oligomeric Protein Folding
192 Protein Crystallography
193 Stress-Inducible HSPs
194 Inclusion Bodies
195 Biotechnology and Patents
196 Inclusion Body Formation
197 Cross Kingdom Communication
198 Apoptosis in the Visual System
199 Transcriptional regulation
200 Data Analysis in Neuroscience
201 Overwintering Ecology - Fishes
202 Biological Control Systems
203 Prediction of Novel Proteins
204 Stress-induced HO-1
205 Alcohol Fermentation
206 Advanced Cell Cycle Studies
207 Analysis of Communities
208 Plant-Microbe Interactions
209 Modeling of Heart Ion Channels
210 Integrin Mediated Adhesion
211 Adaptation in Arctic Fish
212 Aquatic Ecology Methods
213 Molecular toxicology of Cd
214 Intestine and Heat Stress
215 Protein Folding/Aggregation
216 Chemotherapy and Nanotech
217 Metal-induced Stress Proteins
218 Quantitative Biology Research
219 Plant Biotechnology
220 T-Type Calcium Channels
221 Evolution Cav and Nav Channels
222 Cell Signaling and Stem Cells
223 Fatty Acids in Aquatic Systems
224 Biomarkers for Genotoxicity
225 Biostatistics
226 Otolith Analysis Techniques
227 Inflammation of the Brain
228 Computational Genomics Project
229 Principles of Trace Analysis
230 Topics in Applied Toxicology
231 Topics on the Skin Microbiome
232 Trophic Cascades in Lakes
233 Protein Bioinformatics
234 Environmental Factors & Blooms
235 Special Topics in Toxiology
236 Bacterial Toxin Bioinformatics
237 Topics in Plant Biology
238 Comammox in Water Systems
239 Comammox in Water Systems
240 Wetland and Community Ecology
241 Cellulolysis in Manmade Sites
242 Eukaryotic Copper Transport
243 Seasonal Variation in Diet of Tropical Animals
244 Microalgae Molecular Analysis
245 Algorithms in Genomics
246 Natural Hybridization
247 The RepABC Plasmid Family
248 Aquatic Telemetry Techniques
249 Special Topics in Enzymology
250 Isotope Techniques in Paleolim
251 Synthesis of the term "colony"
252 Structural Bioinformatics
253 Alcohol & Hydrogen Metabolism
254 Monitoring in Arctic Lakes
255 Genome Editing Technology
256 Univariate Statistics
257 Comparative Immunology
258 SERS Detection of Metal Ions
259 Choanoflagellate Ion Channels
260 Cox17 Domains in Redox Control
261 Biomass Environment Micro
262 Nitifiers in Water Treatment
263 New Topics in Neurodegeneration
264 The Role of Li in Bipolar Disorder
265 A Survey of Plant Development
266 Mechanisms of Origin Firing
267 Population Biology of Bats
268 Population Ecology
269 Viruses of Aquatic Vertebrates
270 Fungal Pathogens of Amphibians
271 Modelling thermal performance
272 Fish diseases in Latin America
273 Machine-Learning in Bioinformatics
274 Paleomicrobiology and Ancient DNA
275 The Endocycle of Drosophila
276 Bacterial Genome Reductions
277 Interdisciplinary Collaboration
278 Advanced Community Ecology
279 Grant Reviewing in Health Research
280 Evolution of the Animal Fight-Flight Response
281 Omics-based methods & SARS-COV-2
282 Writing Scientific Papers in Ecology and Evolution
283 Algorithms in Transcriptomics
284 ELISA Based Diagnostics in Fish Immunology
285 Gene Neighbourhoods Research
286 Mitochondrial ROS Metabolism
287 Bacterial Pathogenesis
288 Viral Pathogen Detection
289 Genomic Analysis of Chlorella
290 Topics in Metatranscriptomics
291 Advances in Shrimp Immunology
292 Myristoylation of Huntingtin
293 Changing Environments
294 Folding Pathways of Prions
Faculty: 
Science (SCI)
Academic level: 
GRD
Course ID: 
000210