# Calendar

Each week includes an introductory lecture that covers the principles for the week followed by a dry lab recitation session where students discuss weekly papers that focus on the applications of lab techniques in actual experiments. Weekly labs sessions feature in-class quizzes followed by a hands-on wet lab.

Course calendar.
WEEK # | TOPICS | LECTURES | RECITATIONS (DRY LAB) | LABORATORIES (WET LAB) | ASSIGNMENTS DUE
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Section 1. General Course Information
1 | Course expectations, methods for studying the brain, animal research and safety | Lecture 1 | No class | No class |
Section 2. Equipment Overview
2 | Anatomical terminology, concepts and equipment in neurophysiology | Lecture 2 | Recitation 1 | Laboratory 1 In-class quiz 1 |
Section 3. Classical Anatomy
3 | Tissue sectioning, staining, and microscopy | Lecture 3 | No class | Laboratory 2 In-class quiz 2 |
Section 4. Cockroach Receptive Fields
4 | Introduction to neurophysiology and action potentials at work | Lecture 4 | Recitation 2 | Laboratory 3 In-class quiz 3 |
Section 5. Frog CAP Stimulation
5 | The compound potential and action potential (frog nerve) | Lecture 5 | Recitation 3 | Laboratory 4 In-class quiz 4 |
Section 6. Rat Barrel Physiology
6 | Principles of sensory processing | Lecture 6 | Recitation 4 | Laboratory 5 In-class quiz 5 |
7 | Science writing | Lecture 7 | Recitation 5 | Laboratory 6 In-class quiz 6 |
Section 7. MATLAB® Tutorials
8 | Plotting, spike detection, movie creation and data analysis | Lecture 8 | Recitation 6 | Laboratory 7 In-class quiz 7 | MATLAB® project 0 due in recitation MATLAB® project 1 due at end of lab
Section 8. Fly Vision Project
9 | Practice preparation | Lecture 9 | Recitation 7 | Laboratory 8 In-class quiz 8 | Research report 1 first draft due in lecture
10 | Movie design | No class | No class | Laboratory 9 In-class quiz 9 | MATLAB® project 2 due in lab
11 | Data collection | Lecture 10 | Recitation 8 | Laboratory 10 | Research report 1 final draft due in lab
12 | Data analysis 1 | Lecture 11 | Recitation 9 | Laboratory 11 In-class quiz 10 | MATLAB® project 3 due in recitation
13 | Data analysis 2 | Lecture 12 | Recitation 10 | Laboratory 12 In-class quiz 11 |
Section 9. Human Physiology
14 | MR Imaging and electroencephalography | Lecture 13 | Recitation 11 | Laboratory 13 | Research report 2 due in lab

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