Course Description: Basic interrelations of plants and animals with physical and biotic factors of the environment. Two hours lecture, one hour discussion, and three hours laboratory per week.

Course Description: A study of the microscopic structure of vertebrate tissues and organs. Functional correlates will be discussed. Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory per week.

Course Description: Detailed investigation of mammal biology, with emphasis on special physiological and ecological adaptations within the group. Topics include classification, physiological adaptations, ecological specializations and biogeography of mammals.

Course Description: Discussions of the importance of hormones in regulating body functions, integrating biological systems, protecting the body against stress and various diseases and in maintaining day-to-day life processes. Review of concepts relative to mechanisms of hormone action. Consideration given to classic endocrine case studies. Three one-hour lectures and one two-hour discussion per week.

Course Description: A study of the major functional adaptations in animal systems providing for maintenance of homeostasis. Function of vertebrate and invertebrate systems will be discussed. Three hours lecture and a three hour lab per week.

Course Description: A study of the principles and practices associated with managing wildlife populations and habitats. Emphasis on research design, sampling procedures, and field studies. Two hours lecture, one hour discussion, and three hours laboratory per week.

Instructor: A. Popper
Prerequisite: completion of at least one year of graduate study. For LFSC and PSYC majors only
Course Description: Issues of scientific integrity with emphasis on investigators in the laboratory sciences, including mentoring, scientific record keeping, authorship and peer review, ownership of data, use of animals and humans in research, and conflict of interest.

Course Description: One seminar per week for each subject selected: A-Cell Biology; B-Developmental Biology; C-Estuarine and Marine Biology; D-Genetics; E-Parasitology; F-Physiology; G-Systematics and Evolutionary Biology; I-Behavior; J-General; K-Endocrinology; L-Ecology.

Prerequisite: a course in genetics.
Course Description: The role of mutation, selection, migration, inbreeding, and stochastic process in evolution.
Two hours of lecture and six hours of laboratory per week.

Prerequisites: BIOL 302 and BIOL 303 or consent of instructor. BI0L 430 or CHEM 437 is recommended.
Course Description: The combined approaches of bacterial genetics, molecular biology and biochemistry are applied to the study of bacterial physiological processes. An emphasis is placed on examining adaptation strategies used by bacteria upon encountering alterations in environment. Topics include mechanisms of transcriptional and pos translational control, regulation of carbon and nitrogen metabolism, biosynthesis, energy transduction, signal transduction systems, and bacterial development.

Prerequisites: BIOL 302 and BIOL 303 or consent of instructor.
Course Description: The course will focus on the maintenance and expression of genetic material as it relates to cell growth and development. It will cover current topics in the molecular genetics of several lower and higher eukaryotes at an advanced level, including mechanisms of genetic control that operate at the level of DNA replication, transcription, and translation. Topics to include the molecular basis of phenomena such as gene amplification, global control of transcription initiation, protein sorting and secretion, control of yeast mating type as a model for development, the origin of antigen diversity, oncogenesis, pattern formation in Drosophila, sex determination in mammals.

Prerequisites: courses in molecular genetics and developmental biology or cell biology or permission of instructor.
Course Description: Differential gene function and its regulation in developing systems. Genes and the analysis of developmental processes.

Prerequisites: BIOL 303 or consent of instructor.
Course Description: A course designed to acquaint graduate students with contemporary problems of structure and function at the cellular level through a critical examination of the current literature. The course will include both lecture material, with an emphasis on the experimental basis of current knowledge, and presentations by students of oral and written reports on selected topics. The area covered in any semester will vary according to recent developments in the field and according to the interests of the students and faculty. The list of available areas includes: structure and function of biomembranes; composition, structure, and replication of chromosomes; assembly, growth, and reproduction of cytoplasmic organelles; cellular growth and division; regulation of cellular function; nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions.

Prerequisites: MATH 220 and (ZOOL 211 or ZOOL 411) or permission of instructor.
Course Description: The fundamental phenomena related to solute movement in bulk solution and across interfaces. Examination of natural and artificial membrane transport systems, with emphasis placed on their mechanism of action.

Prerequisites: BIOL 302 and 303 or consent of instructor.
Course Description: This course will focus on the molecular biology of eukaryotic cells and will include such topics as the sequence organization of DNA and genes, chromosome structure, messenger RNA synthesis and processing, messenger RNA translation, and the regulation of the expression of genetic information.

Prerequisites: one year of zoology and one year of organic chemistry, and one semester of physiology.
Course Description: Cellular and biochemical processes used by animals to interact with both the external and cellular environment. Water balance, intermediary metabolism, nitrogen metabolism, anaerobic metabolism, thermal regulation, nerve and muscle physiology in cells from a broad variety of animal species are considered.
Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week.

Instructor: Thomas W. Cronin
Prerequisites: Basic courses in biology including a course in animal or comparative physiology, or neurobiology
Course Description: This course is a study of the physiological specializations demanded by marine and estuarine environments, including the following topics: physiological mechanisms for coping with stresses imposed by extremes of temperature, salinity, aerial exposure, and low oxygen concentrations; sensory physiology; bioluminescence; biology of deep-sea life; locomotion and buoyancy; biological rhythms; and orientation and migration. The course reading is based on notes prepared by the instructor and on extensive reading of original sources.
Offered at UMBC only. As this is a senior/graduate level course, it is not offered on IVN.

Prerequisite: one year of college calculus and ZOOL 470 or equivalent.
Course Description: Application of simple dynamic systems and optimization models to understand the dynamics of populations and ecological communities; population growth, predator-prey interactions, competition, food webs, foraging theory, and evolution of life histories. Instruction and use of the program Mathematica.

Instructor: D. Gill
Prerequisite: a course in ecology (ZOOL 470 or equivalent).
Course Description: A graduate-level treatment of ecological processes and their evolutionary implications. Review of classical and contemporary literature, with emphasis on current developments in ecological theories, and their testing in the laboratory and in the field.
Three hours of lecture and two hours of discussion/recitation per week.

Prerequisite: BIOL 301 and BIOL 309 (also listed as STAT 350).
Course Description: Mathematical, statistical, and computer techniques used in quantitative analysis of biological phenomena. Topics will include the theoretical bases for commonly used univariate tests as well as multivariate techniques such as discriminant, canonical factor and cluster analyses. Applications of methods will be discussed. Data sets will be assigned for analysis.

Instructor: K. Sebens
Course Description: Topics include recent findings and theories in community ecology with examples from marine systems including: competition and predation, disturbance and coexistence, effects of nonindigenous species, trophic cascades and interactions, ecosystem organization and function.
Two hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week, with five weekend field/laboratory research activities.

Prerequisites: a course in ecology and a course in behavior, or permission of instructor.
Course Description: The role of interactions among organism and environment upon the dynamics and resource utilization of animals
Two hours of lecture and six hours of laboratory per week.

Prerequisite: STAT 350 or BIOL 301 and BIOL 309 or consent of the instructor.
Course Description: The emphasis in this course will be the study in natural populations of characters whose variation is controlled by multiple genes. The foundations in Mendelian and population genetics will be described, followed by a comprehensive treatment of the field of quantitative genetics and then by a discussion of the place of quantitative genetics in behavioral genetics, physiological ecology, and in population biology in general.

Course Description: Mathematical methods for analyzing deterministic and stochastic biological processes from a variety of areas (including population and evolutionary biology, neurobiology, physiology and morphogenesis). Qualitative aspects of dynamical systems which are usually given as difference or differential equations. The computer program Mathematica will be used to obtain the numerical solutions of these equations.
Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week.

Course Description: This course is designed to provide an overview of fish physiology which fishery biologists and others can supplement with readings in current texts, reviews and research articles. Applicable points of general and comparative physiology are also included. Summaries of important anatomic considerations are included where relevant, but this course is primarily for those who have already completed courses in general physiology, chemistry, biochemistry, and fish anatomy.

Course Description: Lectures, experimental courses and other special instructions in various zoological subjects.

Prerequisites: BSCI 460 or equivalent.
Course Description: Environmental effects on plant ecophysiology. Microclimatology, leaf energy balance, plant responses to temperature and radiation, physiological adaptations, water relations and plant gas exchange.

Prerequisites: a course in behavior and permission of instructor.
Course Description: Deals with the description and analysis of animal social organizations, the adaptive nature of animal societies, the effects of early experience, and the role of communication in the integration of animal groups.
Two hours of lecture and six hours of laboratory per week.

Instructor: S. Carter-Porges
Prerequisite: ZOOL 326 or ZOOL 426.
Course Description: The interactive effects of hormones and behavior. Emphasis on the reproductive and stress hormones as they affect the brain and behavior.