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Animal Diseases and Parasites

Tentative Schedule

Date

Topic

Labs

Week 1 – January 2

Introduction

1 Parasites and disease

Cancelled

Week 2 – January 9

2 "Protozoa" 1

3 "Protozoa" 2

Hantavirus

Week 3 – January 16

Ice storm 2005 - UNBC closed

4 Monogeneans and Digeneas

Prions

Week 4 – January 23

Cancelled to prevent the spread of disease

5 Tapeworms

Specimens

Week 5 – January 30

6 Nematodes

7 Acanthocephalans and arthropods

Feces

Week 6 – February 6

8 Antiparasite behaviour - foraging

9 Immunology - the basics

Lecture Midterm Exam

Week 7 – February 13

No Classes

 

No Classes

Week 8 – February 20

10 Immunology - responses and evasion

cancelled

Bird

Week 9 – February 27

11 Host Specificity, coevolution and virulence

12 Parasite-mediated sexual selection

Fish

Week 10 – March 6

13 Population ecology - hosts and parasites

14 Immunoecology

Frog

Week 11– March 13

15 Rep., trans, col.

16 Community Ecology

ID

Week 12 – March 20

17  Coevolution, cospeciation

Religious holiday

Lecture Midterm Exam

Week 13 – March 27

18 Investigating Disease I

Review

Open

Week 14 – April 3

Review

Review and Conclusion

Open

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