Teaching

BSCI 3252/5252, Spring Semesters - This is an advanced undergraduate/graduate class with a typical enrollment of 50. In it I cover the fundamentals of neurobiology at the cellular level, beginning with the morphology and cell biology of neurons, and then progressing through resting potentials, graded and action potentials, synaptic release and neurotransmission, sensory transduction and coding, biological rhythms, neural plasticity, learning and memory.

BSCI 6332, Fall Semesters – This is a “journal club” style course in which students read, present, and critique current publication from the primary research literature in Biological Clocks and Circadian Rhythms.

PSY 3236, Spring Semesters (circadian photoreception and visual adaption lectures). This is a team-taught advanced undergraduate/graduate class that covers the visual system in depth from transduction to cortical processing to perception. In the retinal section I give a lecture detailing the mechanisms and significance of circadian phototransduction by intrinsically photoreceptive ganglion cells, and neural network adaption in the retina.

BSCI 3230, Fall Semesters - This is an advanced undergraduate/graduate class with a typical enrollment of 40 currently taught by Prof. Carl Johnson. I give two lectures on Molecular Mechanisms of Circadian Photoreception and Entrainment.