Pre-lecture topic: None today.
$1M Virology Portfolio has now grown at an overall rate of 205%/annum as shown on the graph (since 08 Sept 99)
THIS IS THE FINAL GRAPH!

Here are the curved grades so far. It never ceases to amaze me that the curve always has some semblance to the shape of Virginia!

• Past Quizzes
  1. Mary Lou Quiz #1 Photosynthesis Aug 26
  2. Mary Lou Quiz #2 Saguaro #1 Sept 2
  3. Mary Lou Quiz #3 Saguaro #2
  4. Mary Lou Quiz #4 Saguaro #3
  5. Mary Lou Quiz #5 Saguaro #4 (Miss America)
  6. Individual Quiz #1 A short lesson on radioisotopic labelling is appended to this quiz.
  7. Mary Lou Quiz #6 Saguaro #5
  8. Mary Lou Quiz #7 Saguaro #6 (an MMV repressor)
  9. Mary Lou Quiz #8 Saguaro #7 (A Visit to Saguaro Country)
     END OF THE SAGUARO STORIES
     Students taking the departmental writing requirement: click HERE
  10. Mary Lou Quiz #9 (Beginning of the Hallowe'en Story)
  11. Mary Lou Quiz #10 (Hallowe'en #2)
  12. Mary Lou Quiz #11 (Hallowe'en #3)
  13. Mary Lou Quiz #12 (Hallowe'en #4)
  14. Mary Lou Quiz #13 (Paris!)
  15. Mary Lou Quiz #14 The Engagement: Can't keep my mind on anything but you!
  16. Mary Lou Quiz #15 The Engagement: Part 2 - The Rocks
  17. Mary Lou Quiz #16 The Lost Honeymoon!
  18. Oncovirus Questions

  $$$ HOT IDEA $$$

  ENZYMATIC SYNTHESIS OF METALS! Don Quicke of Britain's Imperial College has found that the ovipositor of ichneumon wasps are made out of metallic manganese/zinc. How is this made? Figure it out and revolutionize heavy industry. Watch out "Big Steel!"

• Lecture Notes
  1. Aug 26: Intro and Roots
  2. Aug 31: Interference with Viral Replication
  3. Sept 2: General Methodologies of Viral Research
  4. Sept 7: Specific Methodologies
     • A mini-lecture on density gradient centrifugation
  5. Sept 9: Viral Anatomy and
     Sept 9: Mutagenic Agents
  6. Sept 16-Oct. 05: Five Points of Genetic Expression
     also look at: RNA/DNA Hybrids: Beginnings of Molecular Taxonomy
     and Genetic Clock Mechanisms
  7. Oct 07: Operon Genetics
     (this is a special insert because so few in class have had much on this subject).
  8. Oct 07: The Life Cycle of T4 - Part 1 (we'll try to get much of this in also on this day)
  9. Oct 14: The Life Cycle of T4 - Part 2
  10. Oct 19+21: Lambda and Lysogeny
  11. Oct 26: Transduction
  12. Oct 28: ØX174: Sinshimer's Phage (figs)
  13. Nov 02: Other DNA Phages
  14. Nov 04: RNA Phages A new universe!
      Survey of Eukaryotic Viruses
  15. Nov 11: Intro to Eukaryotic Viruses Introduction to more universes!
  16. Nov 16: Adenovirus Our first look at a dsDNA animal virus. (figs)
  17. Nov 18: Herpes A type that breaks the rules! (figs)
  18. Nov 23: Watch out for Mary Lou!

      The following lecture notes are for the use of student presenters.

  19. Poxviruses the "almost cells"
  20. Retroviruses (figs)
  21. Oncogenic Viruses (cf HIV with RSV)
  22. Plant Viruses
  23. Prions (figs, and see Discover Mag - Dec '99 page 59 for an article on prions!)
  24. Viroids and other VERY strange friends! (figs)

• Miscellaneous
  • Writing paper #2: May be done on any of the subjects brought up by the student presenters. Those lectures above that have lots of pictures added are denoted with a purple "figs".
  • A picture of Interferon action.
  • A trip by land across the USA
  • A life-changing trip to UTAH
  • The format for writing your papers in this course.
    Keep track of the Saguaro Measles Virus work as it will become the basis for your first paper!
    How your paper will be graded
  • Why take zinc for colds and flu?
  • How to be a successful student
  • I need a letter of recommendation!
  • Who is Dr. V?
  • One of My Academic Family Trees!
  • How Disease Altered History
  • "Hi! I'm E. coli."
  • How to propagate and use phage to type bacteria.

ESCAPE!