Food Microbiology |
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Professor: Gabriel Perron |
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Course
Number: BIO 102 |
CRN
Number: 10003 |
Class cap: 18 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Fri 1:00 PM
- 5:00 PM Reem Kayden Center 111/112 |
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Distributional Area: |
LS Laboratory
Science |
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Crosslists: Experimental Humanities |
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In this course designed for non-majors,
we will study the microorganisms that inhabit, create, or contaminate food.
The first half of the course will introduce students to topics in food safety
such as food spoilage, food borne infections, and antibiotic resistance. In
the second half of the course, students will learn how to harness the
capabilities of the many microbes present in our environment to turn rotting
vegetables or spoiling milk into delicious food. Students will also learn how
next-generation technologies are revealing the important ecological dynamics
shaping microbial communities in transforming food with possible beneficial
effects on human health. Throughout the course, students will learn how to
design, conduct, and analyze simple experiments while working with
microbiology techniques, including DNA sequencing. No prerequisite. |
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Environmental
Microbiology |
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Professor: Rob Todd |
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Course
Number: BIO 145 |
CRN
Number: 10004 |
Class cap: 21 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Wed Fri 10:10 AM
- 11:30 AM Reem Kayden Center 103 |
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Laboratory: |
Mon 8:30 AM
- 11:30 AM Reem Kayden Center 114/115 |
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Distributional Area: |
LS Laboratory
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This introductory level
course will introduce students to examining microbes in their native habitats
while covering such basic biological concepts as DNA, RNA, and protein
production, cellular replication, metabolism, respiration, and microbial
genetics. Topics specific to microbial life will include ecological life
cycles and microbial habitats, microbiomes, the microbial role in food
production, antibiotic resistance, biofilms and quorum sensing. There will be
an introduction to reading of primary literature, case studies, and
opportunities for in-class presentations on primary papers. During the inquiry-based
laboratory, students will culture environmental microbes as well as learn
techniques for identification and characterization novel environmental
isolates. Prerequisites: High school biology and chemistry. |
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Biology of
Infectious Disease |
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Professor: Michael Tibbetts |
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Course
Number: BIO 167 |
CRN
Number: 10005 |
Class cap: 21 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 8:30 AM
- 9:50 AM Reem Kayden Center 111/112 |
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Laboratory: |
Fri 1:30 PM
- 4:30 PM Reem Kayden Center 114/115 |
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Distributional Area: |
LS Laboratory
Science |
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This course, which is intended for
Biology majors, will examine various infectious agents; bacteria, viruses,
and protozoans. The biological mechanisms employed by the pathogens are
explored, as are the evolutionary relationships among the various pathogens
and their hosts. In addition, the course will examine the problem of
antibiotic resistance and some of the mechanisms employed by the human immune
system to combat infectious agents. The laboratory portion of the course will
introduce students to bacteria and viruses that are relatively nonpathogenic
for humans. Prerequisite: experience in high school biology and chemistry. |
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Natural History of the
Hudson Valley |
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Professor: Bruce
Robertson |
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Course Number: BIO 169 |
CRN Number: 11010 |
Class cap: 16 |
Credits: 4 |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon
Wed 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Reem
Kayden Center 102 |
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Laboratory: |
Fri 8:30 AM - 11:30 AM Reem Kayden
Center 111/112 |
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Distributional Area: |
LS Laboratory
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This course is designed to
train students in the field, lab and museum skills of natural historians and
to teach them how to identify plants and animals of the Hudson Valley, both
in the wild and in the lab. The smaller, lecture portion of the class will
introduce students to concepts in systematics and taxonomy, the history of
natural history, the value of natural history to science, and how citizen
science is exploiting crowdsourcing of natural history data. The
laboratory portion of the course will focus on teaching students how to identify
plants, birds, amphibians, aquatic and terrestrial insects, and fish.
Students will learn how to use binoculars, dissecting scopes, traps, nets and
other tools to visualize or capture specimens, and use field guides, phone
apps, dichotomous keys and other resources to identify them. Field trips will
take place on campus, in the Tivoli Bays Wildlife Management Area, and at
several off campus locations throughout the Hudson Valley where students will
practice their identification skills, collect specimens, and interact with
naturalists from outside the Bard community. Students will build and
curate their own insect and plant collections that will be added to Bard’s
existing collections, use natural history information to answer some basic
questions about the distribution and abundance of a species they choose, and
as a final project they will create a natural history guide for a focal
taxonomic group of their choice. |
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Biology Cohort
Workshop Year 1 |
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Professor: Cathy Collins |
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Course
Number: BIO 199 |
CRN
Number: 10015 |
Class cap: 30 |
Credits:
0 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Fri 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 115 |
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Distributional Area: |
None |
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This non-credit bearing course is designed
to provide students with opportunities to acquire important information for
successfully progressing through the biology major, and to discuss topics
relevant to their particular academic stage. It will also provide space
for peer-to-peer interactions and community building. Topics will include,
but will not be limited to: settling into the first year curriculum, crafting
moderation papers, designing appropriate, individualized course plans,
planning meaningful summers, and support for senior project writing. Students
are expected to register for this course each semester, at the appropriate
level (BIO199 first year, BIO 299 sophomore year, BIO 399 junior year, BIO
499 senior year). |
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Genetics and
Evolution |
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Professor: Brooke Jude |
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Course
Number: BIO 201 |
CRN
Number: 10006 |
Class cap: 16 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 8:30 AM
- 11:30 AM Reem Kayden Center 111/112 |
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Distributional Area: |
LS Laboratory
Science |
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Crosslists: Global Public Health; Mind, Brain, Behavior |
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This course is an introduction to the
mechanisms of inheritance and the generation of diversity in eukaryotic and
prokaryotic organisms. This course takes a modern approach to the study
of genetics in which classical ideas about genotype, phenotype and
inheritance are integrated into the modern molecular and genomic
understanding of the processes involved in the generation of diversity.
In addition to discussions of the molecular mechanisms involved in DNA
replication, recombination, the generation and repair of mutations, and
the relationship between genotype and phenotype, special consideration is
given to our understanding of the processes involved in generating
population-level variation in complex traits and how this understanding can
help us identify the myriad genetic and non-genetic factors influencing these
traits. The laboratory consists of several projects focused on genetics
of distinct model systems to address one or more topics in the course.
Prerequisite: One biology course at the 140 level or higher. |
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Ecology and
Evolution |
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Professor: Cathy Collins |
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Course
Number: BIO 202 |
CRN
Number: 10007 |
Class cap: 16 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Wed Fri 8:30 AM
- 11:30 AM Reem Kayden Center 114/115 |
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Distributional Area: |
LS Laboratory
Science |
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Crosslists: Environmental Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies |
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This core course for biology majors is
an introduction to the general principles of ecology and evolution that, with
genetics, form the core of biological understanding. In addition to studying
foundational ideas in both ecology and evolution, we will explore modern
topics at the boundary between these two areas. We will consider, for
example, how genetic variation among individual organisms can influence
ecological interactions, and how these interactions can influence fitness. We
will focus on a mechanistic understanding of processes, using model-building
to inform that understanding. Prerequisite: Successful completion of a
course in biology numbered 140 or above. |
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Biology Seminar |
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Professor: Bruce Robertson |
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Course
Number: BIO 208 |
CRN
Number: 10008 |
Class cap: 55 |
Credits:
1 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Thurs 12:10 PM
- 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 103 |
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Distributional Area: |
None |
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This course will provide students with
broad exposure to biology through the biology visiting speaker seminar
series. Students will hear about the wide-ranging research interests of
invited biologists and have opportunities to interact informally with them.
The course is graded Pass/Fail and students are responsible for short
follow-up assignments for at least 80% of the talks. Recommended for all
biology majors and other interested students. |
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Biostatistics |
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Professor: Cathy Collins |
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Course
Number: BIO 244 |
CRN
Number: 10009 |
Class cap: 16 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Mon Wed 1:30 PM
- 4:30 PM Reem Kayden Center 114/115 |
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Distributional Area: |
MC Mathematics and
Computing |
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Crosslists: Environmental Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies;
Global Public Health; Mathematics |
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This course introduces students to the
statistical methods biologists use to describe and compare data. Students
will learn methods that are appropriate for different types of data. Topics
covered include elementary probability and statistics, characteristics of
frequency distributions, hypothesis testing, contingency tests, correlation
and regression analysis, different ways to compare means, nonparametric
tests, and an introduction to multivariate tests. This course is intended for
sophomore and junior biology majors, although it is open to students of all
years. One objective of the course is to provide biology majors the
statistical background they need to analyze data for their own senior research;
biology students should take this course before their senior year, if
possible. Notice, though, that the topics in this course are applicable to
many advanced courses. Prerequisite: passing score on part I of the Math
Placement and at least one introductory biology course. |
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Biology Cohort
Workshop Year 2 |
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Professor: Brooke Jude |
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Course
Number: BIO 299 |
CRN
Number: 10016 |
Class cap: 30 |
Credits:
0 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Fri 11:50 AM
- 1:00 PM Reem Kayden Center 111 |
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Distributional Area: |
None |
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This non-credit bearing course is
designed to provide students with opportunities to acquire important
information for successfully progressing through the biology major, and to
discuss topics relevant to their particular academic stage. It will
also provide space for peer-to-peer interactions and community building.
Topics will include, but will not be limited to: settling into the first year
curriculum, crafting moderation papers, designing appropriate,
individualized course plans, planning meaningful summers, and support for
senior project writing. Students are expected to register for this course
each semester, at the appropriate level (BIO199 first year, BIO 299 sophomore
year, BIO 399 junior year, BIO 499 senior year). |
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Genomics |
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Professor: Rob Todd |
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Course
Number: BIO 322 |
CRN
Number: 10012 |
Class cap: 14 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
- 4:30 PM Reem Kayden Center 111/112 |
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Distributional Area: |
LS Laboratory
Science |
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Since the development of DNA sequencing
in the mid-1970s, the field of biology has undergone a revolution. In these
50 years, nearly 100,000 genomes have been sequenced, providing deep insights
into how organisms (and populations) develop, grow, and evolve. A genome, the
complete set of genetic information contained within a cell, is a set of
self-replicating instructions that encode the ability of an organism to use
energy, sense and respond to its environment, and reproduce. This course,
intended for biology majors interested in genetics, evolution, and
biotechnology, will cover topics including sequencing technologies and
methodologies, genome architecture, somatic mutation detection, copy number
variation, aneuploidy and polyploidy, and phylogenomics. In laboratory
sessions, students will work in groups on a semester-long project to design,
propose, and execute an in vitro evolution study to identify how eukaryotic
microorganisms respond and adapt to various cellular stresses, followed by
whole genome sequencing and analysis. This class will require additional time
in the laboratory outside of designated class time. Additional emphasis will
be placed on engagement with relevant literature, analyzing and visualizing
large data sets, and the production of ‘micro-manuscripts’. Prerequisites:
Upper College standing in Biology. Completion of Biostatistics is helpful,
but not required. Prior knowledge and use of bioinformatic pipelines are not
required. |
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Biology Cohort
Workshop Year 3 |
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Professor: Michael Tibbetts |
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Course
Number: BIO 399 |
CRN
Number: 10017 |
Class cap: 30 |
Credits:
0 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Fri 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 102 |
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Distributional Area: |
None |
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This non-credit bearing course is designed
to provide students with opportunities to acquire important information for
successfully progressing through the biology major, and to discuss topics
relevant to their particular academic stage. It will also provide space
for peer-to-peer interactions and community building. Topics will include,
but will not be limited to: settling into the first year curriculum, crafting
moderation papers, designing appropriate, individualized course plans,
planning meaningful summers, and support for senior project writing. Students
are expected to register for this course each semester, at the appropriate
level (BIO199 first year, BIO 299 sophomore year, BIO 399 junior year, BIO
499 senior year). |
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Cancer Biology |
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Professor: Michael Tibbetts |
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Course
Number: BIO 411 |
CRN
Number: 10013 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits:
4 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Tue 1:30 PM
- 4:30 PM Reem Kayden Center 200 |
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Distributional Area: |
LS Laboratory
Science |
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Cancer is a genetic disease that cannot
be inherited, it is a disease in which one's own cells disrupt normal
physiological functions, it is a disease for which some therapies result in
the loss of the bodies ability to fight disease. This advanced course
will look at the complex reasons for these paradoxes and more by looking at a
particular cancer from several perspectives: epidemiological, physiological,
genetic, molecular and cellular. A seminar style approach will be taken
in which both text and the primary literature sources will be used to examine
issues of cancer cause, progression, and treatment. Students will be
expected to present primary literature articles and to write a research paper
on a type of cancer. Prerequisites: moderated in biology and permission
of instructor. |
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Biology Cohort
Workshop Year 4 |
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Professor: Felicia Keesing |
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Course
Number: BIO 499 |
CRN
Number: 10018 |
Class cap: 30 |
Credits:
0 |
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Schedule/Location:
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Fri 11:50 AM
- 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 103 |
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Distributional Area: |
None |
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This non-credit bearing course is
designed to provide students with opportunities to acquire important information
for successfully progressing through the biology major, and to discuss topics
relevant to their particular academic stage. It will also provide space
for peer-to-peer interactions and community building. Topics will include,
but will not be limited to: settling into the first year curriculum, crafting
moderation papers, designing appropriate, individualized course plans,
planning meaningful summers, and support for senior project writing. Students
are expected to register for this course each semester, at the appropriate
level (BIO199 first year, BIO 299 sophomore year, BIO 399 junior year, BIO
499 senior year). |
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