Ultrastructure of Green Algae and Bryophytes

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EEB 396 Special Topics: Ultrastructure of Green Algae and Bryophytes. We will meet Monday at 8:45-9:45 in the 3rd floor PharmBio conference room. Weekly leaders: Please fill in your topics below and provide a link to the reading or a hard copy of the article in the folder in TLS 314 (EEB office).

Week of:	Topic	Leader
05 Sept (WED)	Overview of cell structure of green algae and bryophytes	Louise
10 Sept	Cellulose cell wall	Karolina
17 Sept	Cell wall of Scenedesmus quadricauda	Frank
24 Sept	Other wall components (beyond cellulose)	Bernard
01 Oct	Introduction to chloroplasts, then a focus on bryophyte chloroplasts (reading material in folder in TLS 314)	Juan Carlos
08 Oct	Ch. 4 - Chloroplasts (Dodge 1973, The Fine Structure of Algal Cells)- copy of reading material in TLS 314	Molly
15 Oct	Pyrenoids and carbon concentrating mechanisms - a copy of a book chapter about pyrenoids in TLS 314	Karolina
22 Oct	we're not meeting this week	(note: LL gone)
29 Oct	Badger et al. 1998	Karolina
05 Nov	Cytoskeleton of interphase and dividing embryophyte cells, Gunning and Steer Atlas of Plant Cell Biology, Plates 31, 34, 35, 37, 40, 44, 45 (in TLS 314, but see original books in my lab for color views)	Louise
12 Nov	Cell division in green algae, Hoek, Mann and Jahns, 1995, Algae, an introduction to phycology, Pg 323-334, focusing on the 8 types of mitosis and cytokinesis. Pickett-Heaps, 1975, Green Algae, several micrographs meant to better illustrate 4 of the 8 types, don’t focus on text just images (in TLS 314).	Molly
19 Nov	FALL BREAK WEEK	turkey
26 Nov	Swimming structures in green algae. Reading in 314. Pp. 303-10, 324-5 (van den Hoek et al. 1995), plus P. 406 (Graham and Wilcox 2000). I'll explain a few other twists, too.	Louise
03 Dec	Swimming structures in embryophytes	Juan Carlos?

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