Life Sciences 2 Life Sciences 2: Cells, Tissue, and Organ Systems Summer 08 Session A Instructor: Youssef Ezzeddine, Ph.D. 2524 Gonda, (310) 600-5799 [email protected] Office Hours: Wed 7:30-8:30 am Fri: 10:30-11:30 am LS 2226 TAs: Christiane Abouzeid ([email protected]) Renee Chen ([email protected]) Rana Khankan ([email protected]) Sherry Soliman ([email protected]) Class Time: Mon, Wed, & Fri 8:30 - 10:20 am, Lakretz 110 Website: http://www.lsic.u cla.edu/classes/summer08/ http://lslab.lscore.ucla.edu/ Lab Management: Dr. Gaston Pfuegl. YHS 2340, 4-4113 ([email protected]) LS Administrator: Lily Yanez. LSB 2305, x5-6614 ([email protected]) Mark Katayama. LSB 2305, x5-6614 ([email protected]) Textbook: Purves, Orians, and Heller, Life, The Science of Biology, 8th edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc.; Sunderland, Freeman and co. The textbook will be on reserve in the Powell Library. Life Sciences 2, Laboratory Manual, 7th edition. Available at ASUCLA Bookstore. Grading: Total points for this class will be 500 points: Midterm (07/11) 150 points Lab Experiments and quizzes 80 points Lecture Assignments 40 points Attendance and Participation 10 points Final Exam (08/01) 220 points (20 points from the lab will be on the final exam) Total: 500 pointsExams: There is going to be a midterm and a final examination during this quarter. The midterm will be held on Friday 07/11. The final exam will be held on Friday (08/01). Examinations will cover material from the lecture, reading, and discussion sections. The lecture component of the final exam is cumulative. All exams will have both multiple choice type questions and short answers type questions. Requests for regrades must be submitted in writing with a detailed explanation and justification within one week after the exams have been graded. Make-up Policy: No make up examination will be given. If you are unable to take an examination due to illness or other emergency, you are responsible for contacting the Life Sciences Core Curriculum Office (LSB 2305, (310) 825-6614) before the examination. You are required to have written verification from a physician or parent regarding the illness or emergency. Lecture Notes: Lecture notes are available on the class webpage (http: //www.lsic.ucla.edu/classes/summer08/). Make sure you download the lecture notes before coming to class. Having the lecture notes with you will facilitate taking notes in class. Discussion Section: Attendance to the weekly discussion/lab sections is an important component of the course. Assigned papers (read below) will be discussed during each section. Weekly assignments pertaining to the papers will be posted on the class webpage the Friday before the first discussion section meeting on Monday. Assignments must be turned in at the beginning of each section. All assignments must be turned in on time. Late assignments will not be accepted. The discussion sections will concentrate on experimental issues and problem sets that will help you understand the lecture and succeed when taking the exams. Some of the questions on the exams will come from the discussion sections. Thirty percent of your final grade comes from discussion section, lab, attendance, written assignments, and class participation. Lecture material and papers will be presented in discussion sections. Attendance to the discussion and lab sections is mandatory. Tardiness and absences will not be tolerated. If you are late or absent from the discussion section you will not get participation points. Assigned Papers: 1- Paper 1 (Assignment due 06/30-07/03) How Cancer Arises. Robert A. Weinberg. Scientific American, September 1996, Vol. 275 Issue 3, p62, 9p Assignment will be posted on the course webpage on Friday 06/2708. 2- Paper 2 (Assignment due 07/14-07/18) Building a Brainier Mouse. Joe Z. Tsien. Scientific American, April 2000, Vol. 282 Issue 4, p62, 7pAssignment will be posted on the course webpage on Friday 07/11/08. 3- Paper 3 (07/21-07/25) Infectious Diseases and the Immune System. Paul E. William, Scientific American, September 1993, Vol. 269 Issue 3, p90, 8p Assignment will be posted on the course webpage on Friday 07/18/08. 4- Paper 4 (07/28-07/29) Managing Diabetes. Sara Sklaroff and John Rennie. Scientific American, December 2007, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p46, 12p Assignment will be posted on the course webpage on Friday 07/25/08. Instructions to Download Papers: These instructions will work from on-campus computers only or on computers that has Bruin On Line Proxy Server Set Up. Go to http://www2.library.ucla.edu Place mouse cursor on Search and Find (upper left) Move mouse cursor to E-resources Click on E-Journals On the Search for e-journals titles, type Scientific American and hit enter From the right side menu, select v.268 (1993) Scientific American Archive, Restricted to UC campuses Type in the title of the desired article in the find box UCLA Student Conduct Code 102.01: Academic Integrity All forms of academic misconduct, including, but not limited to, cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, multiple submissions or facilitating academic misconduct. 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