BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 305

Animal Physiology

Fall 2011 (1117)

 

Instructor

Julian Christians (julian_christians@sfu.ca; Phone: 778-782-5619)

Office: SSB8101 (on bridge from SSB to Chemistry building)

Office hour:  Wednesdays, 11:30 – 12:30.  Office hours are for “drop-ins”; appointments may be made for other times.  Office hours will be expanded prior to the midterm and final exams.

 

TAs

Jonathan Jiang jonathan_jiang@sfu.ca

Adam Goulding atg4@sfu.ca

 

The TAs won’t have regular office hours, but you are welcome to email them to set up an appointment.

 

Lectures

MWF 10:30AM - 11:20AM; Room: WMC3260

 

Tutorials

Please go to your scheduled tutorial, or ask Adam or Jonathan whether you may switch into a tutorial with fewer people.

 

Mo 1:30PM - 2:20PM   AQ5035

Mo 2:30PM - 3:20PM   AQ5035

Tu 2:30PM - 3:20PM    AQ5049

We 2:30PM - 3:20PM   AQ5048

We 3:30PM - 4:20PM   AQ4125

Fr 1:30PM - 2:20PM     AQ4125

 

Tutorial schedule and associated assignments (including deadlines for tutorial assignments)

 

Course schedule (and powerpoint files of lectures)

 

Practice questions for first midterm

 

Practice questions for second midterm

 

Practice questions for final

 

Course description

Physiology is about the “nuts and bolts” of how organisms work, from molecules through cells, tissues, organs, up to the level of the whole organism.

Outline of Topics

  • General principles of physiology
  • Basic biochemistry and cell physiology (which will hopefully be review)
  • Endocrinology
  • Nerves, sensory systems and nervous systems
  • Muscles
  • Circulatory and respiratory systems
  • Osmoregulation and nitrogen excretion
  • Digestion

Recommended textbook

Principles of animal physiology by Christopher D. Moyes and Patricia M. Schulte.

San Francisco: Pearson Benjamin Cummings, 2006. ISBN 0805353518. 

 

There is a second edition of this text- it doesn’t matter whether you get the first or the second edition.

 

Should you get the text?  If you attend all lectures and take good notes, you can probably do well without the text.  Some students have commented to me that they felt that the text was essentially required.  It depends on your study habits.

 

There are three copies of the text on reserve in the library.

 

Mark distribution

•         First midterm  25%

•         Second midterm  25%

•         Final exam  40%

•         Tutorial assignments (not attendance) 10%

 

The exams will be based entirely on material presented in lectures.  However, the lectures will follow the textbook closely and therefore reading the text will probably help to understand the lecture material (there will be at least one copy of the text on reserve in the library).  The slides used in lecture will be made available on the course website (prior to the relevant lecture, where possible), although the lecture slides and textbook should not be considered substitutes for attending lectures.

 

Some tutorial assignments will require students to submit work to Turnitin.com, primarily for its peer review function and, secondarily, to detect plagiarism.

 

Form to fill out if you miss exam/assignment due to illness or other problem

http://students.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/students/pdf/healthcare-statement-general.pdf

Course schedule

* Readings are from recommended textbook.  Page numbers and chapters are from the first edition (it should be straightforward to find the relevant bits in the second edition).

 

Lecture;

click for

Powerpoint

Date

Section

Topics

Reading *

1

Wed., Sep 7

Introduction

General course stuff

 

2

Fri., Sep 9

Introduction

General principles;   Chemistry/  Biochemistry Review

Ch. 1;

First Ed:

Chapter 2

Second Ed:

Chapter 2

p. 18-61

3

Mon., Sep 12

Review

Membrane transport (passive vs. active); Cell signaling, receptors

First Ed:

Chapter 4

Second Ed:

Chapter 2

4

Wed., Sep 14

Cell signaling

Types of receptors; second messengers;

First Ed: Chapter 4

Second Ed:  Chapter 3

5

Fri., Sep 16

Endocrinology

Endocrine signaling

 

First Ed:

Chapter 4

Second Ed:

Chapter 3

6

Mon., Sep 19

Endocrinology/

Neurons

Hormone axes;

Membrane potentials

 

First Ed:

Ch. 5

Second Ed:

Ch. 4

7

Wed., Sep 21

Neurons

Neuron structure; Signal reception and integration; Action potentials;

Cool membrane potential simulator

First Ed:

Ch. 5

Second Ed:

Ch. 4

8

Fri., Sep 23

Neurons

Signal conduction; Synaptic transmission;

 

First Ed:

Ch. 5

Second Ed:

Ch. 4

9

Mon., Sep 26

Neurons

Synaptic transmission;

Diversity in neuronal form and function;

 

First Ed:

Ch. 5

Second Ed:

Ch. 4

10

Wed., Sep 28

Neurons

Factors that affect speed of conduction;

First Ed:

Ch. 5

Second Ed:

Ch. 4

11

Fri., Sep 30

Neurons

Diversity in synaptic transmission; Introduction to sensory systems;

First Ed:

Ch. 7

Second Ed:

Ch. 6

12

Mon., Oct 3

Sensory systems

Sensory systems; Chemoreception (smell)

First Ed:

Ch. 7

Second Ed:

Ch. 6

13

Wed., Oct 5

Sensory systems

Chemoreception (taste);  Mechanoreception (touch)

First Ed:

Ch. 7

Second Ed:

Ch. 6

14

Fri., Oct 7

Sensory systems

Mechanoreception (balance, hearing)

First Ed:

Ch. 7

Second Ed:

Ch. 6

 

Mon., Oct 10

Thanksgiving

 

Lecture cancelled

 

 

Wed., Oct 12

Midterm #1

 

 

15

Fri., Oct 14

Sensory systems

Photoreception

First Ed:

Ch. 7

Second Ed:

Ch. 6

16

Mon., Oct 17

Sensory systems

Photoreception continued;  Colour vision;

 

First Ed:

Ch. 8

Second Ed:

Ch. 7

17

Wed., Oct 19

Nervous systems

Central nervous system;

 

First Ed:

Ch. 8

Second Ed:

Ch. 7

18

Fri., Oct 21

Nervous systems

Peripheral nervous system; Integration of central and peripheral nervous systems;  Learning and memory;

First Ed:

Ch. 8

Second Ed:

Ch. 7

19

Mon., Oct 24

Nervous systems

Learning and memory;

 

Ch. 3 (p.91-92), Ch. 6

20

Wed., Oct 26

Muscles

Cytoskeleton; actin and myosin; Thick and thin filaments; Sarcomeres; Excitation/contraction

First Ed:

Ch. 6

Second Ed:

Ch. 5

21

Fri., Oct 28

Muscles

Variation in excitation/contraction mechanisms and muscle protein isoforms

First Ed:

Ch. 6

Second Ed:

Ch. 5

22

Mon., Oct 31

Muscles

Types of striated muscle;

First Ed:

Ch. 6

Second Ed:

Ch. 5

23

Wed., Nov 2

Muscles

Smooth muscle;

Start of circulatory systems;  Open vs. closed systems; circulatory fluids;

First Ed:

Ch. 6

Second Ed:

Ch. 5

24

Fri., Nov 4

Circulatory systems

Patterns of blood flow; hearts; Cardiac cycle; Pacemaker cells;

First Ed:

Ch. 9

Second Ed:

Ch. 8

25

Mon., Nov 7

Circulatory systems

Control of heart by nervous and endocrine systems;  Spread of depolarization across heart

First Ed:

Ch. 9

Second Ed:

Ch. 8

 

Wed., Nov 9

Midterm #2

 

 

 

Fri., Nov 11

Remembrance Day

Lecture cancelled

 

26

Mon., Nov 14

Circulatory systems

Relaxation of heart; Cardiac output;

First Ed:

Ch. 9

Second Ed:

Ch. 8

27

Wed., Nov 16

Circulatory systems

Circulation, Blood vessels; Blood distribution;  Lymphatic system; Veins;

First Ed:

Ch. 9

Second Ed:

Ch. 8

28

Fri., Nov 18

Circulatory systems/

Respiratory systems

Baroreceptors; Respiration; exchange sites; respiratory strategies; respiratory structure

First Ed:

Ch. 10

Second Ed:

Ch. 9

29

Mon., Nov 21

Respiratory systems

Ventilation; Lung structure

First Ed:

Ch. 10

Second Ed:

Ch. 9

30

Wed., Nov 23

Respiratory systems

Avian lung structure; work required to ventilate lungs Perfusion of respiratory structures; hemoglobin

First Ed:

Ch. 10

Second Ed:

Ch. 9

31

Fri., Nov 25

Respiratory systems

Oxygen equilibrium curves; factors that affect oxygen affinity of hemoglobin; carbon dioxide transport; control of respiration;

First Ed:

Ch. 11

Second Ed:

Ch. 10

32

Mon., Nov 28

Water and ion balance

Osmotic and ionic regulation, nitrogen excretion;

First Ed:

Ch. 11

Second Ed:

Ch. 10

33

Wed., Nov 30

Kidney function

Kidney structure, nephron structure, loop of Henle, urine production

 

34

Fri., Dec 2

Placenta

 

 

 

Mon., Dec 5

Review

 

 

 

The final exam is scheduled for December 14, from 12:00-3:00 pm.