Date:

 

Lecture#

 

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26 Aug T

1

KIN1056

Introduction

Basic Electricity

Hille Chapter 1;

 

Primary Literature

 

 

Course Overview; Selection of Assignments

definitions and calculations for electricity

 

30 Aug F

 

2

BIO367

Electrical Circuits

Gerrish et al.

Chapters 1 & 6

 

 

definitions and calculations for circuits

 

3 Sept T

 

3

KIN1056

Measuring Biological and Optical Signals

Aidley

Chapters 1-3

 

 

 

 

amplifiers and voltage-clamp circuits, definitions of optical probes and equipment

 

 

6 Sept F

 

4

BIO367

Ion Movement in Excitable Cells

Hille Chapter 2

 

 

Nernst potential; Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz, physical laws that dictate ion movement

 

10 Sept T

 

5

 KIN1056

Electrical Properties of the Excitable Membrane

Hille Chapter 3

 

 

biological circuits, membrane conductance, parallel conductance model, IV relationships

 

12 Sept Th

PM

6

 KIN3009

Electrical Properties of the Excitable Membrane

Hille Chapter 3

 

 

parallel conductance model, IV relationships

 

13 Sept F

 

7

 BIO367

Channel Presentation #1

Discussion Leader:   Rimil Goy Roy

Primary Literature;

Hille Chapter 5

 

 

 

 

Potassium Channels

 

 

24 Sept T

 

8

BIO367

Functional Properties of Dendrites

 

Primary Literature

 

 

 

 

electrotonic properties, nonisopotential cells (cylinders), rall model for neurons

 

26 Sept Th

PM

9

HURRICANE

HERMINE

NO CLASS

Nonlinear Properties of Excitable Membranes

 

Hille Chapter 2

 

 

membrane rectification, Hodgkin & Huxley gate model, constant field model

 

 

27 Sept F

 

10

HURRICANE

HERMINE

NO CLASS

Channel Presentation #2

 Discussion Leader:  Paria Salemi

Primary Literature;

Hille Chapter 6,7

 

 

 

 

Transmitter or Ligand-gated Channels

 

1 Oct T

11

 BIO367

Squid Giant Axon

 

Hille Chapter 2

 

 

classical voltage-clamp, H & H model, propagating & nonpropagating AP, gating currents

 

3 Oct Th

PM

10

KIN3009

Channel Presentation #2

 Discussion Leader:  Paria Salemi

Primary Literature;

Hille Chapter 6,7

 

 

 

 

Transmitter or Ligand-gated Channels

(Hurricane Helene Makeup Lecture)

 

4 Oct F

 

12

 BIO367

Channel Presentation #3

Discussion Leaders:  Saptarsi Mitra

Primary Literature;

Hille Chapter 3

 

 

 

 

Sodium Ion Channels

 

 

8 Oct T

 

Society for Neuroscience

No Class

 

 

 

 

11 Oct F

13

 BIO367

Channel Presentation #4

Discussion Leader:  Dan Gaines

Primary Literature;

Hille Chapter 4, 9

 

 

Calcium Channels

 

15 Oct T

 

14

BIO367

Channel Presentation #5

Discussion Leader:  Bridger Menlove

 

Primary Literature;

Hille Chapter 5

 

 

 

 

Chloride on Channels

 

17 Oct Th

PM

9

 KIN3009

Nonlinear Properties of Excitable Membranes

(Hurricane Helene Makeup Lecture)

Hille Chapter 2

 

 

membrane rectification, Hodgkin & Huxley gate model, constant field model

 

 

18 Oct F

15

BIO367

Channel Presentation #6

Discussion Leaders:  Marty Compagno

Primary Literature;

Hille Chapter 8

 

 

Second Messenger-gated / Mechanical Ion Channels

 

22 Oct T

 

16

BIO367

Biophysical Methods Presentation #1

 

Discussion Leader:  Debi Fadool

Primary Literature

 

 

 

 

Patch-clamp Electrophysiology

 

 

 

25 Oct F

 

17

 BIO367

Molecular Structure and Unitary Currents of Ion Channels

Hille Chapter 13,

Sakmann/Neher Chapter 3,18, and 19

 

 

molecular structure, patch-clamp records of single-channel currents

 

29 Oct T

 

18

BIO367

Stochastic Analysis of Single-Channel Function I

Sakmann/Neher Chapter

18 and 19

 

 

statistical analysis of single channel records, probability density functions, Markov processes, kinetic schemes, channel agonists & antagonists

 

 

 

1 Nov F

 

19

BIO367

Biophysical Methods Presentation #2

Discussion Leader:  Paria Selema

Primary Literature

 

 

 

Multi-Electrode Arrays

 

5 Nov T

20

 BIO367

Stochastic Analysis of Single-Channel Function II

Sakmann/Neher Chapter

18 and 19

 

 

 

statistical analysis of single channel records, probability density functions, Markov processes, kinetic schemes, channel agonists & antagonists

 

 

 

7 Nov Th

PM

21

 KIN3009

Synaptic Transmission:  Presynaptic Mechanisms

 

 

 

 

 

chemical transmission, quantum hypothesis, use-dependent synaptic plasticities

 

8 Nov F

All Day!

Special

Lectures

Wakulla Springs, Chemosensory Retreat

Optional

14 Nov Th

PM

 

22

 KIN3009

Biophysical Methods Presentation #3

 

Discussion Leader:  Saptarsi Mitra and Daniel Gaines

Primary Literature

 

 

 

 

In Vivo Electrophysiology and Viral Infection Strategies

 

 

15 Nov F

 

23

BIO367

Biophysical Methods Presentation #4

Discussion Leader: Marty Compagno

Primary Literature

 

 

 

Genetically-engineered Voltage Sensors

(GEVs)

 

19 Nov T

 

24

BIO367

Synaptic Transmission:  Calcium and Transmitter Release

pp. 323-356

 

 

 

Calcium hypothesis, molecular mechanisms of release, and calcium domains

 

22 Nov F

25

BIO367

Biophysical Methods Presentation #5

Discussion Leaders:  Rimil Goy Roy

Primary Literature

 

 

 

NMR

 

26 Nov T

26

BIO367

Extracellular Field Recordings, Cellular Neurophysiology of

 

 

 

 

potentials in a volume conductor, classification of fields, current source-density analysis

 

29 Nov F

 

Thanksgiving Holidays

No Classes

3 Dec T

 

27

BIO367

Synaptic Transmission:  Postsynaptic Mechanisms & Learning/Memory

 

 

 

 

synaptic conductances and reversal potentials, diversity of neurotransmitters, electrical synapses, dendritic spines

 

 

 

spine shape and synaptic plasticity, Hebb rule, cellular mechanisms of LTP & LTD, correlation matrix

 

3 Dec F

28

BIO367

Biophysical Methods Presentation #6

 

Discussion Leader:  Bridger Menlove

Primary Literature

 

 

 

Optogenetics

 

10 Dec T

BIO367

Final Examination (Week of 10 – 14 Dec)

 

8:00 am to 11:00 am