Instructor: Dr. Carl S. Luciano

SECTION A04  MONDAY 1:25-4:15

 SECTION B04 WEDNESDAY, 4:40-7:15

FALL, 2008

I. Contact Information

Dr. Carl S. Luciano, 114 Weyandt,  357-2352, email: luciano@iup.edu

My office is behind the main office for the Biology Department, on the first floor of Weyandt near the Elkin Hall entrance to the building (where all the construction trucks pull in). Come in to the main office and ask the secretaries to come back in to my office area. You are encouraged to stop in at any time if you have a question or a problem with Principles of  Biology material.

If you have a question which can be answered over the phone, don’t hesitate to call the office. If you can’t reach me directly by phone, contact the Biology Department Office at 357-2352 and leave a message for me.

Use email to contact me when possible. I do read my email and reply.

Regular office hours are: 2:00-4:00 PM W and 1:30-2:30 F or by appointment-please email.

You may also contact me through the Biology Department Secretary Ms. Bertha Cecconi at 357-2352

II. Announcements, Notes, Messages

HERE ARE ELECTRONIC VERSIONS OF YOUR FINAL ASSIGNMENT SHEETS

Lab Report #3 (individual assignment)

Poster Presentation (group assignment)

       UPDATE on AUGUST 25, 2008

        MONDAY LAB SECTION MEETS TODAY!!!!!!!

III. Weekly Activities

        Week One (beginning August 25)

        Week Two (beginning September 8)

         Week Three (beginning September 15)

         Week Four (beginning September 22)

         Week Six (beginning October 6)

         Weeks Seven and Eight (beginning October 13)

IV. Lab Syllabus

        Go to the file containing the Lab Syllabus.

V. Handouts, Assignment Sheets and Rubrics

        Handouts:

                      The Scientific Method

                      Scientific Figures

                      Overview of Cells  (contains links)       

                      Writing up Your Results    (Sept. 8, 10)

                      Paper on Blood Plasma Proteins (Sept. 8, 10)

                      Paper on Wasp Venom Proteins (Sept. 8, 10)

                      Writing up Your Conclusions    (Sept. 15, 17)

                      Partial Purification of Acid Phosphatase    (Sept. 22, 24)

                      Writing up Materials and Methods    (Sept. 22, 24)

                      Lab Report #1    (October 6, 8)

                      Procedure for Daphnia    (October 13, 15, 20, 22)

VI. Links

Here are some useful links to background information of the Bradford (Bio-Rad) colorimetric protein assay

Here are some useful links to background information of the acid phosphatase enzyme assay

The first two links illustrate some research involving acid phosphatase

http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/3/2/E002

http://soil.scijournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/6/1612

The link below gives some background on the enzyme and the assay

http://www.bio.mtu.edu/campbell/bl482/lectures/lec2/482ex2a.htm

Here are some useful links to background information on the water flea Daphnia

Draft version of  instructions for Daphnia culturing along with a little bit of background

VII. Others

Please email your comments about my site directly to me.   luciano@iup.edu