BioNB 4240 1. : AN INTRODUCTION

Carl D. Hopkins Dept. Neurobiology & Behavior

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BioNB 4240

Carl D. Hopkins Name______263 Mudd Hall NetID______Major ______Concentration______CDH8 Class Schedule (place an X on existing classes) Wednesdays 2-4 PM or when door is Mon Wed Fri open. 9:05 10:10 11:15 12:20 1:25

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L01. Introduction to Neuroethology 1. Course organization and policy 2. Standing on the shoulders of giants 3. Nervous systems Background courses in Neurobiology or related fields 4. Neuroethology example: behavior and neurobiology of the star-nose mole

Career goals

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1 Reading Assignments Writing Assignments

Simmons, P. and Young, D. (2010) Nerve Cells and Animal Behaviour (3rd Instead of Weekly take home exams: edition). Cambridge University Press, New York. Due usually on Mondays when schedule permits. Problem sets over the previous week’s material.

25% of course grade.

Late policy Original reprints on course website

courses.cornell.edu/bionb4240

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Discussion and Oral Website Presentation http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/bionb4240/index.htm Wednesdays 9 AM

• Attendance. User______• Journal Club format: original papers from scientific literature. Password______Student presentations: 13 Wednesdays x 2 students = 26

Discussions 4, 7, 11, 15, 26 (assigned paper) Discussions 19, 23, 30, 34, 38, 42, 46, 52 (student pick)

• Written summary: respond to questions.

• Participation

25%

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The trail is not a trail DISCUSSIONS Gary Snyder

SEE COURSE CALENDAR for open dates. I drove down the Freeway Contact C. Hopkins by email to reserve a date. And turned off at an exit Discussion leaders picks Reading Selection and Assignment for that day And went along a highway Emphasis on current research, important papers, original results (usually Til it came to a sideroad not review papers): a “Journal Club” Drove up the sideroad Student signup starts Monday, Aug 29. Til it turned to a dirt road Full of bumps, and stopped. Walked up a trail But the trail got rough And it faded away— Out in the open, Everywhere to go.

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2 PROJECTS Final Exam

No final exam for students who complete 9 of 12 written assignments. NEUROETHOLOGICAL CONCEPTS First Draft Due: November 18, 2011 FINAL DRAFT: December 5, 2011

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WEBSITE http://courses.cit.cornell.edu/bionb424 Neuroethology A comparative and evolutionary approach to the study of the nervous system and its role in behavior. A biological approach to the study of behavior and its neural basis.

“Levels of analysis”

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Erich von Holst Hermann Nico Tinbergen von “Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of Helmholtz those who have lighted the flame within us.” ---Albert Schweitzer

Mark Konishi Fernando Robert Catherine Carr Peter Marler Nottebohm Capranica

“If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” -- Isaac Newton

Nobuo Suga Theodore H. Bullock 18 17 Kenneth Roeder Darcy Kelly

3 N E U R O E T H O L O G Y BRAINARD http://neurotree.org/neurotree/index.php DOUPE CARR CAREW CARLSON KAWASAKI ROSE METZNER GILBERT VOLMAN HARRIS-WARRICK BASS RYAN FRIEDMAN CRAWFORD NARINS CLAYTON KNUDSEN MARDER BURROWS Konrad LORENZ SEELEY MENZEL WINE KELLY BARLOW An early interest in natural history, evolution & palentology LAND KRASNE COLLETT DEVOOGD ARNOLD HOY KRAVITZ Medical training: comparative anatomy & embryology. NEUWEILER SELVERSTON KANDEL Oskar Heinroth (comparative studies of behavior of ducks) KREBS HOPKINS KNIGHT EMLEN RATLIFF WILLIAMS SIMMONS BELL PEARSON NORTHCUTT KRISTAN PAYNE SUGA KEETON GOULD KUFFLER WILSON SCHNITZLER CAMHI SZABO Fixed action patterns: spontaneous, internally generated NOTTEBOHM KENNEDY HOWLAND KONISHI CAPRANICA behavior (not a reflex chain) MARLER BULLOCK HORRIDGE HUBEL/WIESEL HINDE MANNING HEILIGENBERG ROEDER HOYLE Theory of drives: psychohydraulic model REICHERT LETVIN EWERT GRIFFIN HARTLINE MITTLESTEADT ECCLES IMMELMAN LINDAUER Behavior as an inherited trait, used for taxonomy, phylogenetic ALCOCK FESSARD LISSMANN HUBER AUTRUM HUXLEY THORPE analysis. MAYR BAERENDS VON FRISCH HODGKIN Social imprinting in geese. VON HOLST TINBERGEN ASCHOFF LORENZ ETHOLOGY CAJAL SHERRINGTON EVOLUTION THORNDIKE WATSON CELLULAR PAVLOV LOEB DARWIN NEUROBIOLOGY 20

ETHOLOGY ETHOLOGY

Niko TINBERGEN Karl von Frisch (with Lorenz) A study of (1951) Comparative physiology Herring Gull Behavior: ethogram of action patterns Dance language of honeybee Release mechanisms. Hearing in fish Four questions for research on behavior: • immediate causation Sensory biology • development • evolution • function

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Where do nervous systems occur? Tree of Life

image from www.tolweb.org tree of life web project

4 Nerve nets in hydra and jellyfish (Cnidaria)

Single cells colony

Nerve net in hydra Neurons in jellyfish

polyp

Centralization

Mizunami, M. Yokohari, Takahata, (2004) bilateral Further exploration into the adaptive nerve cords significance of the arthropod “microbrain”. Zool. primitive brain nerve cords Sci. 21: 1141.

Cephalization

Ventral nerve tract Cephalization ganglia

Mizunami, M. Yokohari, Takahata, (2004) Further exploration into the adaptive significance of the arthropod “microbrain”. Zool. Sci. 21: 1141.

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Condylura cristata

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Ken Catania

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