PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCE 173 - UCLA
PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCE 173 - UCLA
PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCE 173 - UCLA
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<strong>PHYSIOLOGICAL</strong> <strong>SCIENCE</strong> <strong>173</strong><br />
Anatomy and Physiology of Sense Organs (4 units)<br />
Spring Quarter, 2010<br />
Instructors:<br />
Peter Narins, Professor of Physiological Science, pnarins@ucla.edu, X50265<br />
Alan Grinnell, Professor of Physiology and Physiological Science, X54468,<br />
adg@ucla.edu<br />
Gordon L. Fain, Professor of Physiological Science, X64281, gfain@ucla.edu<br />
Teaching Assistant: Natalia Tchemodanov (ntchemodanov@ucla.edu).<br />
Lectures: MW 9:30-10:45, Boelter 5440 (cap. 65)<br />
Discussion Sections: 1A M 2 B 2:50 PM, Boelter 5264<br />
1B M 3 B 3:50 PM, Boelter 5264<br />
Textbooks: Required: Sensory Transduction, G.L. Fain, Sinauer, 2003<br />
Recommended: Neuroscience, D. Purves et al., (Sinauer) OR<br />
Neuroscience, M.F. Bear et al, (Lippincott & Wilkins):<br />
Prerequisites: Students must have had one full year of college calculus or the equivalent<br />
(high school AP BC), as well as one full year of physics with calculus. In addition, students are<br />
strongly recommended to have taken (and passed) either Physiological Science 111A,<br />
Neuroscience M101A (Physiological Science 180A, Psychology 117A), or MCDB 171.<br />
Psychology 115 is not in general adequate preparation, and students who have taken only this<br />
course but not one of the other neurobiology prerequisites may find themselves insufficiently<br />
prepared.<br />
Topic of course: The purpose of this course is to introduce undergraduate majors in<br />
Physiological Science, Neuroscience, and Psychology to the physiology of sensation. Topics to<br />
be covered will include basic properties of sense organs, review of properties of ion channels and<br />
metabotropic signal cascades, touch, hearing and vestibular sense, smell, taste, vision, and Aextra<br />
senses@ such as temperature sensation, electroreception, and magnetoreception.<br />
Readings and Discussion Conferences: A written critique is required of all assigned journal<br />
articles. These critiques should be typed (double-spaced), one-page in length, and handed in at<br />
the beginning of your assigned discussion section. Additional details will be given in lecture and<br />
in your discussion sections.<br />
Examinations and Grading: There will one midterm (covering lectures 1-10) and a final exam<br />
(covering lectures 12-20). In addition, there will be graded summaries of papers, quizzes, and/or<br />
presentations in the discussion sections. Grading: Discussion sections and papers/reports, 20%;<br />
midterm, 44%; final exam, 36%.
Schedule of Lectures:<br />
PS <strong>173</strong> Spring ‘09<br />
Lecture # Date Topic Lecturer<br />
1 M March 29 Intro to Sensory Systems PMN<br />
2 W March 31 Mechanoreception PMN<br />
3 M April 5 Lateral Line PMN<br />
4 W April 7 Vestibular System PMN<br />
5 M April 12 Auditory System I- Anatomy, PMN<br />
Transduction<br />
6 W April 14 Auditory System II- Transduction, PMN<br />
CNS<br />
7 M April 19 Hearing and Localization in Owls ADG<br />
8 W April 21 Bat Echolocation I ADG<br />
9 M April 26 Bat Echolocation II ADG<br />
10 W April 28 Electroreception &<br />
ADG<br />
Magnetoreception<br />
11 M May 3 MT1 (Lectures 1-10)<br />
12 W May 5 Sensory Pathway plasticity ADG<br />
13 M May 10 Metabotrobic sensory receptors GLF<br />
and photoreceptors I<br />
14 W May 12 Photoreceptors II GLF<br />
15 M May 17 Visual processing in the retina GLF<br />
16 W May 19 Visual processing in the CNS GLF<br />
17 M May 24 Plasticity in visual processing ADG<br />
18 W May 26 Olfaction I GLF<br />
19 M May 31 Memorial Day<br />
20 W June 2 Olfaction II and Taste GLF<br />
Final Exam (lectures 12-20): Date: TBA
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