Parasitology Lab Exercises
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This book contains lab exercises used in BIOS 385, Parasitology, from 2006 to 2010 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Included are outcomes, tasks, materials, study questions, and vocabulary. These exercises are the basic ones used, but teaching assistants had quite a bit of freedom to modify them. TAs also gave weekly quizzes (not included in these exercises), some of which were practical. The lab was fully equipped with video, including video microscopes, and each student had his/her own setup with compound and dissecting microscopes.
John Janovy, Jr
About the author:John Janovy, Jr. (PhD, University of Oklahoma, 1965) is the author of seventeen books and over ninety scientific papers and book chapters. These books range from textbooks to science fiction to essays on athletics. He is now retired, but when an active faculty member held the Paula and D. B. Varner Distinguished Professorship in Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interest is parasitology. He has been Director of UNL’s Cedar Point Biological Station, Interim Director of the University of Nebraska State Museum, Assistant Dean of Arts and Sciences, and secretary-treasurer of the American Society of Parasitologists.His teaching experiences include large-enrollment freshman biology courses, Field Parasitology at the Cedar Point Biological Station, Invertebrate Zoology, Parasitology, Organismic Biology, and numerous honors seminars. He has supervised thirty-two graduate students, and approximately 50 undergraduate researchers, including ten Howard Hughes scholars.His honors include the University of Nebraska Distinguished Teaching Award, University Honors Program Master Lecturer, American Health Magazine book award (for Fields of Friendly Strife), State of Nebraska Pioneer Award, University of Nebraska Outstanding Research and Creativity Award, The Nature Conservancy Hero recognition, Nebraska Library Association Mari Sandoz Award, UNL Library Friend’s Hartley Burr Alexander Award, and the American Society of Parasitologists Clark P. Read Mentorship Award.
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Parasitology Lab Exercises - John Janovy, Jr
PARASITOLOGY LAB EXERCISES
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2006-2010
by
John Janovy, Jr.
Copyright © 2013 by John Janovy, Jr.
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Each week’s exercise has a set of materials to be used, objectives and outcomes, tasks, study questions, vocabulary to be mastered, and a list of the slides available for study. Students were required to complete a notebook with drawings, comments on drawings, essay answers to some of the study questions as required by the Teaching Assistant, and anything else the TA felt should be included. TAs also distributed their own syllabi, along with some additional instructions. There was a lab quiz every week after the first week. Each student had his/her own compound and dissecting microscope, and the lab was equipped with both a compound and dissecting microscope with video camera connected through a VCR to a large monitor. There was also a document camera and a flex-neck video camera that were attached to the monitor through a switch box. So TAs used video microscopy quite frequently in their teaching, including the weekly quiz. Labs were scheduled for three hours. TAs also devised a mid-term and final practical, and made the lab available for study time prior to those larger practical exams. Students also brought their textbook (FOUNDATIONS OF PARASITOLOGY) to lab.
Students were given printed copies of the lab exercises; those copies included a spreadsheet of the slides and specimens available, life cycle stages, type of preparation, and host. The exercises were also made available via course management software used by the university.
NOTE ON MATERIALS: Slides consisted of tissue smears, fecal smears, tissue sections, and parasite whole mounts, with both parasite sexes represented (if dioecius), and sometimes prepared with different stains. In addition to the slides listed, we also had various preserved specimens, e.g., Ascaris sp. for dissection, suspensions of helminth eggs (several species), and a fairly large collection of slides from wildlife collected over the past century, including specimens from the Cedar Point Biological Station classes. So there was quite a bit of comparative material that the TAs were free to use. In addition, we usually spent a lab period on fecal exams, with specimens contributed by the local humane society and/or pet store. When we did exercises on gregarine populations and communities in beetles, the insects were supplied from research stocks. Finally, most years the class also had a tour of the Manter Laboratory of Parasitology in the University of Nebraska State Museum research collections.
I would like to thank the many teaching assistants and others who contributed to the success of the parasitology program at UNL over the last century!!!
ISBN: 9781301073252
Table of Contents:
Week 1: Orientation
Week 2: Kinetoplastida
Week 3: Protistan Potpourri
Week 4: Flagellates
Week 5: The Amebas
Week 6: Apicomplexa I
Week 7: Apicomplexa II
Week 8: Introduction to Trematodes
Week 9: Trematodes Continued
Week 10: Schistosomes
Week 11: Tapeworms
Week 12: Nematodes
Week 13: Nematodes Continued
Week 14: Some Important Arthropods
Supplemental exercises:
Apicomlexan Parasites of Insects
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