If you are from NSF please look at Presentations 1 and 2 and the Volvox videos.
My goal in teaching is to involve students to the creative process of scientific discovery. I don’t make a firm distinction between teaching and research. To me teachers must be good learners and research is how we learn.
If you need to contact me send me an email at michod@u.arizona.edu or call my office (Bio. Sci. West 306) at 621-7509. My office hours while I am lecturing are 1-2 on W and F.
I suggest you do the readings before you come to class and take careful notes in class. I will make available a PDF of my presentation (see below), so you don't need to write all that stuff down, instead you should listen and take notes on what I say. My exam questions will come from my lectures and the assigned readings; the PowerPoint are a skeleton of my lecture; to do well you need to be present in class, listen, think and take notes. And ask questions!
I will be updating the lectures as we proceed, so always check back and get the most recent version.
Chapter 24 Presentation (6 slides per page)
Michod Presentation 3 (Chapt 23) (6 slides per page)
Minor change in syllabus: Michod's Jan 23 lecture will be Friday Jan 20 and Hunter's Jan 20 lecture will be Jan 23
Michod PowerPoint Presentation 1 Presentation 1 (6 slides per page)
Garrett Hardin's Tragedy of the Commons article in Science
Better human design Scientific American article
Michod PowerPoint Presentation 2 Presentation 2 (6 slides per page)
Animation of continental drift (requires Shockwave add-in for browser)
Videos from text shown in class:
Video of volvocine algae multicellularity, Video of Volvox swimming, Video of rotifer eating, Video of Volvox flagella
Volvox motility video shown in class (thanks to C. Solari, J. Kessler): Small Quicktime file
Volvox PIV videos shown in class (thanks to C. Solari, R. Goldstein, J. Kessler):
PIV Vcarteri fluo.avi, PIV Vcarteri no fluo.avi, PIV Vrousselleti fluo.avi, PIV Vrousselleti no fluo.avi