Bi / Bch / CNS 211 Schedule

Revised 11/28/99
Course announcement
Requirements
Day, Time, Place
Tuesday
7:0 PM   234 Kerchoff
Topic
Readings
Presenters
1.
Tuesday 9/28
Principles of Membrane Excitability
Readings
H. A. L.
2
10/5
Principles of electrophysiological instrumentation
Readings
Pam Fong
3
 10/12
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Superfamily
 Readings
Sarah Farivar
Niki Zacharias
4
10/19 
Glutamate Receptor Superfamily
Readings
1.Karli Watson
2.  W. Bryan Smith
5
10/26
Voltage-gated Channels
  Readings
1.  Magdalena Bak
Tim McGarvey
6.
11/2
The Synapse as a Biophysical Machine
Readings
1. Ming Li
2.  Chi-Sung Chiu
3. Daw-An Wu
7
11/9
Transporters and Pumps
Readings
1.Carrie Shilyanksy 
2. Angela Eickhorst
8
11/16
Gating by Intracellular Messengers
  Readings
1.Yen Bui
2. Jack Horne
3. Wen Chen
9
11/23
Varieties of Na+, K+ and Cl- Channels
 Readings
1. Eric Slimko
2. Clemens Neusch
10
11/30
Mechanosensitive channels 
  Readings 
1.George Shapovalov
2.  Andy Yeh

Students:
Magdalena Bak <bak@its.caltech.edu>
Yen Bui <bui@cco.caltech.edu>
Wen Chen <wchen@cco.caltech.edu>
Chi-Sung Chiu <cschiu@cco.caltech.edu>
Angela Eickhorst <angelane@its.caltech.edu>
Sarah Farivar <sarahf@its.caltech.edu>
Pam Fong <fong@caltech.edu>
Justine Garvey <garveyj@cco.caltech.edu>
Jack Horne <jhorne@gg.caltech.edu>
Ming Li <ml@cco.caltech.edu>
Timothy McGarvey <mcgarvey@its.caltech.edu>
Sachiko Murase <murase@cco.caltech.edu>
Clemens Neusch <neusch@caltech.edu>
Johannes Schwarz <johannes@caltech.edu>
George Shapovalov <georges@cco.caltech.edu>
Carrie Shilyansky <carries@cco.caltech.edu>
Eric Slimko <slimko@its.caltech.edu>
W. Bryan Smith <wbsmith@cco.caltech.edu>
Luis Vazquez <vazquez@its.caltech.edu>
Karli Watson <karli@its.caltech.edu>
Daw-An Wu <daw-an@its.caltech.edu>
Andy Yeh <apyeh@cco.caltech.edu>
Tzu-ping Yu <tpyu@cco.caltech.edu>
Niki Zacharias <niki@its.caltech.edu>