Biology 401: Parasitology
Lab Schedule
| September 2 | No Lab |
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| September 4 | General Information; check in, use of microscopes; survey of parasites (projection slides) | |
| Septemer 9 | Lab 1 |
Symbiosis: mutualism - termite flagellates, endocommensalism - Opalina in frogs, endoparasitism - Tritrichomonas in mice. |
| September 11 | Lab 2 |
Phylum Apicomplexa: gregarines, Eimeria, Toxoplasma |
| September 16 | Labs 3 and 4 |
Phylum Apicomplexa (continued): malaria. |
| September 18 | Labs 3 and 4 |
Phylum Apicomplexa (continued): malaria, Babesia. |
| September 23 | Lab 5 |
Phylum Zoomastigina, hemoflagellates: Trypanosoma including living insect stages, Leishmania. |
| September 25 | Lab 6 |
Phylum Zoomastigina, intestinal flagellates: Giardia, Trichomonas, Chilomastix. |
| September 30 | Lab 7 |
Phylum Sarcodina: Entamoeba and related genera; Phylum Ciliophora: Balantidium; Phylum Myxozoa: Myxosoma. |
| October 2 | EXAM # 1 |
Laboratory exam I: Protozoa |
| October 7 | Lab 8 |
Phylum Platyhelminthes, trematodes: monogenetic trematodes and spidogaster, digenetic trematode larval stages - miracidia, sporocysts and rediae. |
| October 9 | Labs 9 and 10 |
Phylum Platyhelminthes, trematodes (cont.): digenetic trematode larval stages - living cercariae, cercarial types, metacercariae; adult digenetic trematodes- Schistosoma. |
| October 14 | Labs 9 and 10 |
Phylum Platyhelminthes, trematodes (cont.): digenetic trematode larval stages - living cercariae, cercarial types, metacercariae; adult digenetic trematodes - Schistosoma. |
| October 16 | Lab 11 |
Phylum Platyhelminthes, trematodes (continued): adult digenetic trematodes (cont.) - Echinostoma, Fasciola, Opisthorchis, Heterophyes. |
| October 21 | Labs 11 and 12 |
Phylum Platyhelminthes, cestodes: pseudophyllidean tapeworms. |
| October 23 | Lab 13 |
Phylum Platyhelminthes, cestodes (continued): cyclophyllidean tapeworms. |
| October 28 | Labs 13 and 14 |
Phylum Platyhelminthes, cestodes (continued): cyclophyllidean tapeworms. |
| October 30 | Labs 13 and 14 |
Phylum Platyhelminthes, cestodes (continued): cyclophyllidean tapeworms. |
| November 4 | Catch-up and review | |
| November 6 | EXAM #2 |
Laboratory exam II: Platyhelminthes |
| November 11 | No Class |
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| November 13 | Lab 15 |
Phylum Acanthocephala |
| November 18 | Lab 16 |
Phylum Nematoda: rhabditid and strongylid nematodes |
| November 20 | Lab 17 |
Phylum Nematoda (continued): trichostrongylid and ascarid nematodes. |
| November 25 | Lab 18 |
Phylum Nematoda (continued): ascarid nematodes (continued). |
| November 27 | Thanksgiving Holiday: No Class | |
| December 2 | Lab 19 |
Phylum Nematoda (continued): spiurid and trichinellid nematodes. |
| December 4 | Lab 20 |
Phylum Arthropoda: survey of medically important arthropods. |
| December 9 | Catch-up and review. | |
| December 11 | EXAM #3 |
Laboratory exam III: Acanthocephala, Nematoda, Arthropoda. |
