Date
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Topic
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Required Readings
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Exercises |
Sept. 10
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Introduction\Organization
Using the microscope
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Sept. 17
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Sampling & Cavalieri
principle
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Mayhew, 1992, pgs 313-316
Henry & Mayhew, 1989
Uylings et al., 1986
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1. systematic point
counting
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| Sept. 24 |
Intro to counting "particles"
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Mayhew & Gundersen, 1996;
Korbo et al., 1990
Popken & Farel, 1996
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2. physical disector
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Oct. 1
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| Oct. 8 |
Disector methods cont.
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West & Gundersen, 1990
Harding et al., 1994
Dorph-Petersen et al., 2001
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3. optical disector
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Oct.15
|
Fractionator
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West, Slomianka & Gundersen(1991); Larsen et al 2000; Jelsing et al., 2006
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4. fractionator
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Oct. 22
|
Evaluating your sampling
strategy
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West & Gundersen, 1990 Geinisman et al., 1996 Guena, 2000
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5. coefficient of error
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| Oct. 29 |
Cycloids & Space Balls, Measures of surface area
and length |
Baddeley et al., 1986 Gokhale et al., 2004 Mouton et al., 2002
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6. cycloid grid
Last week to receive project approval
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Nov. 5
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<SFN>
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Nov. 12
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Nucleators & Rotators |
Jensen & Gundersen, 1993 Møller et al., 1990 Hosseini-Sharifabad &Nyengaard (2007) |
7. cell soma volume |
| Nov. 19 |
Neural morphology:
Dendritic arbors
Neurolucida demo |
Uylings et al., 1989
Adkins et al., 2002 |
8. branch analysis
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Nov. 26
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Project presentations |
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Dec. 3
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Project presentations |
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Dec. 12
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Final
Project Write-Ups
due by 5:00 pm |
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