Monday, December 3, 2001
READ:
Allada et al. (2001). Stopping time: The genetics of fly and mouse circadian clocks. Annual Review of Neuroscience 24:1091-1119. [don't worry--the pages are short, and 8 of them are references]
**This paper is available on the web through university library subscriptions:**
Medical School: www.ahsl.arizona.edu/journals/ejrnls/
Main Library: dizzy.library.arizona.edu/ej/ej.shtml#subscriptions
You can access these electronic subscriptions from any U of A computer or, if you use dakota.com as your internet provider, from home.
WRITE:
Imagine that you have just obtained a large grant to fund circadian rhythm genetics research using your favorite experimental animal in your well-equiped lab. In 2-3 pages (see note below):
- State the question regarding circadian rhythms you would most like to answer. (Advice: stick to questions that you think CAN be answered, but you need not restrict yourself to specific issues we have already discussed in class.)
- Based on what we have read this semester, state the most likely answer to the above question (that is, your hypothesis).
- Outline a set of experiments designed to test the hypothesis. As previously, state alternative outcomes depending on whether the hypothesis is true or false. Make sure to specify the experimental animal in which you will conduct the experiments.
Note: previous assignments have been 1-2 pages long. However, some of you are using such large margins and line spacings that little of substance is said in one page. Please keep this in mind. . . .