Circulatory System

Circulatory System TEST - Thursday March 6

New Homework: Outline P.L.O. J "CIRCULATORY SYSTEM: CIRCULATION AND BLOOD" #1-6 (due Wednesday February 27)

FIELD TRIP - Grand Success! Very impressed with our 16 ladies. Fun AND informative, and a big shout-out to Professor Cornell and her associates (please read the following email from SFU to Mr Moore) for all their hard work AND ordering the pizza :)

"Hello Mr. Moore,

This morning a group of 16 John Oliver Biology 12 students,
supervised by Carl Sommerfeld, visited the department of Molecular
Biology and Biochemistry at Simon Fraser University for a series of
presentations and demonstrations. They looked into an electron
microscope to see the bacterium that causes cholera and learned about
how PhD student Juliana Li is determining the structural composition
of bacterial pili that the bacteria use to make themselves more
virulent. They observed the set-up that PhD student Nadine Wicks is
using to measure the flow of current through ion channels from
cardiac cells that had been "transplanted" into frog eggs. They
observed how a noisy sonicator transforms lipid suspensions into real
biological membranes.
We (Nadine, Juliana, and I) were so impressed with your
students. They were engaged, asking amazingly insightful questions,
providing correct answers to our questions, murmuring with delight
when they were impressed with what they heard and saw. They were
quiet and respectful. And they were very impressed with the cost of
the electron microscope ($2,000,000). Mr. Sommerfeld is wondering if
the PAC at JO could fund-raise for one of these toys. You could put
it on your wish-list at any rate.
In seriousness, please commend the students and Carl for undertaking
this field-trip. We enjoyed having them!"

-Dr Rosemary Cornell, Juliana Li, and Nadine Wicks

The following links are excellent for animating Cell Parts and Functions!
http://multimedia.mcb.harvard.edu/
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