BIOL

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BIOL

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2026

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BIOL

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2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026-2027

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www.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

Credits: Students will spend 3 weeks at a host research site in Kenya. In the morning, immersive language and cultural training would be provided by Peace Corps Kenya Language and Culture facilitators. In the afternoon students will work with scientists at the research site on a project similar to a typical summer undergraduate research experience. For those seeking an F7, each week they will experience a different lab environment (molecular, organismal and field). I will hold classes for F7 students on Monday afternoons and weekends to bring students up to speed on basic plant science content. On Tuesday, they will meet with a lab host and discuss recent papers and their impact on agriculture. On Wednesday and Thursday, they will conduct an experiment related to the read research. On Monday and Wednesday evenings, students will meet and dine with guest seminar speakers on local plant science or conservation projects. On the weekends, the students will visit cultural events, other conservation programs and parks.

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BIOL

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4

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4

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2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

Credits: Students will spend 3 weeks at a host research site in Kenya. In the morning, immersive language and cultural training would be provided by Peace Corps Kenya Language and Culture facilitators. In the afternoon students will work with scientists at the research site on a project similar to a typical summer undergraduate research experience. On the first week, students will be reading paper with their host and learning basic craft. On the second week they will collect data, and on the third week analyze this data for a summary poster presentation on the Thursday of their last week. On the weekends, the students will visit cultural events, other conservation programs and parks.

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BIOL

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4

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4

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course

Edition

2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

Credits: This course is offered at the Semester in Environmental Science (SES) Program at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Students accepted into the SES Program will take this course. The microbiology techniques commonly used to study microbes affecting human health are often ineffective for the study of microbes in natural ecosystems. Lectures in this course will present the scientific rationale behind a number of methods used by microbial ecologists. In the laboratory, students will work with the latest techniques to measure microbial biomass, activity, extracellular enzymes, biogeochemistry and species diversity. These methods include epifluorescence microscopy, radioisotopic tracers for bacterial production, fluorescent substrates, hydrogen sulfide and methane production, and molecular probes for classes of bacteria. Students may use these techniques in concurrent independent research projects. This course is an elective offered to students who enroll in the Semester in Environmental Science (SES) Program at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Students who participate in the SES Program may count ENVS 260 and ENVS 270 as two upper-level courses with labs towards the Biology major (subject to the limit that no more than two courses outside of the Rhodes Biology program may be applied to the major), but BIOL 280 will count only as elective credits in Biology (this course may not count as one of the six upper-level Biology courses required for the major).

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BIOL

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4

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4

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course

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2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026-2027

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www.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026-2027

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www.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026-2027

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www.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026-2027

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www.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026-2027

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www.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026-2027

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www.rhodes.edu

Credits: Animals continuously gather sensory information from their surroundings to guide their actions. This course explores how sensory systems translate the physical features of the outside world into meaningful patterns of brain activity. We'll cover six sensory systems (vision, touch, hearing, taste, smell, and senses unique to other animals). For each system, we will examine the structure and function of sensory organs, how the brain processes sensory signals, and relevant behavioral studies in humans, other vertebrates, arthropods, and mollusks. Students will supplement textbook readings with material from popular science books on the senses: Sentient and An Immense World. In the lab section of the course, students will conduct threshold and discrimination experiments for each of the (human) sensory systems. Students will learn to use the programming language R to organize, analyze, and visualize the data they collect, compiling lab reports for each experiment. In the second half of the semester, student groups will design and implement their own version of one of the previous experiments, adding in an additional variable (e.g. background music on sound discrimination). They will interpret their results, draw conclusions about underlying biological mechanisms, and present their findings to the class. Crosslisted with NEUR 319

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BIOL

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1

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1

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2026-2027

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www.rhodes.edu

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NEUR 319

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BIOL

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2026-2027

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2026-2027

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BIOL

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2026-2027

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BIOL

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2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026-2027

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BIOL

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2026-2027

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BIOL

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2026-2027

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BIOL

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2026-2027

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BIOL

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2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026

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Credits: This course will explore how billions of neurons in our body are generated from a few specialized cells during embryonic development. Topics that will be covered in this class will include signals that regulate how cells are instructed to acquire a neural identity, how cells switch over from a progenitor to a fully differentiated neuron and the impact this may have on regulation of brain size with a special emphasis on exploring the mechanistic basis of human neocortex expansion, how neurons form functional neuronal circuits for proper function and regulation of behavior, and reorganization of these neuronal circuits during post-natal development. The importance of these fundamental processes in neuronal development will be highlighted through discussions of neurodevelopmental disorders such as neural tube defects that affect 3000 pregnancies each year in the US, lissencephaly, polymicrogyria among others. There will also be a brief section on use of stem cells and three-dimensional stem cell organoid approaches that are being used to answer previously unexplored questions of human nervous system development. Laboratory experiments will involve the use of vertebrate embryos in a humane manner to illustrate many of the fundamental concepts taught during lectures. Specific skills students can hope to acquire in the laboratory will be fine dissection skills, immunofluorescence, and microscopy, gross morphological analysis of embryos upon drug treatments known to affect neuronal development and finally, quantitative approaches for assessment of experimental manipulations that affect neuronal fate determination and neural circuit formation.

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BIOL

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1

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1

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course

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2026-2027

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www.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026-2027

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www.rhodes.edu

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BIOL

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2026

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2026

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2026

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2026

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BIOL

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2026

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