Plant Form and Function

BIOS 405/505 Plant Form and Function (Fall 2004)

Instructor: Deborah Johnson

Office Hours: Tuesday 3:45-4:45; Friday 9:30-10:30

Offices: Room 440 and Room 256

Updated course schedule -- Course schedule

ImageJ Download link -- ImageJ download

Leica DRMB Microscope Instructions -- Leica DRMB instructions

Lecture Notes and Other Documents

Click the links to download a PDF of my PowerPoint presentations. You will need Adobe Acrobat or a comparable PDF viewer to read and print these documents.

24 August -- Plant A & P Review

26 August -- Lab Notebook, Diversity, Environmental Sensors

2 September -- Morphology, Specific leaf area

7 September -- Light, leaves and photosynthesis

16 September -- Photosynthesis

21 September -- Light responses

28 September -- Plastic embedding protocol, Leaf clearings

30 September -- ImageJ

5 October -- Knives and microtome, Mott & Buckley Figs, Brownlee Figs

7 October -- Stomata & boundary layers

12 October -- Ground tissues, Clematis-sun, Clematis-shade, ImageJ Practice

19 October -- Vascular tissues

21 October -- Concepts for Quiz #2

28 October -- DNA isolation

2 November -- Plant genome

4 November -- Genomics, Thomas & Klaper.pdf

9 November -- Gel electrophoresis protocol

11 November -- PCR, GE and Sequencing

16 November -- What goes into presentation

18 November -- Concepts for Quiz #3

30 November -- Presentations, Poster template