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Please leave this template on top of your student page as I will add your assessment items here. Beginning your online work - Working Online in this course
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Lab 1 Assessment - Researching a Topic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In the lab I showed you how to find the PubMed reference database and search it using a topic word. Lab 1 assessment will be for you to use this to find a research reference on "fertilization" and write a brief summary of the main finding of the paper.
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Lab 2 Assessment - Uploading an Image | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
OK you are now in a group
Initially the topic can be as specific or as broad as you want. Chicken embryo E-cad and P-cad gastrulation[1] References
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Lab 4 Assessment - GIT Quiz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ANAT2341 Quiz Example | Category:Quiz | ANAT2341 Student 2015 Quiz Questions | Design 4 quiz questions based upon gastrointestinal tract. Add the quiz to your own page under Lab 4 assessment and provide a sub-sub-heading on the topic of the quiz. An example is shown below (open this page in view code or edit mode). Note that it is not just how you ask the question, but also how you explain the correct answer. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lab 5 Assessment - Course Review | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Complete the course review questionnaire and add the fact you have completed to your student page. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lab 6 Assessment - Cleft Lip and Palate | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lab 7 Assessment - Muscular Dystrophy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lab 8 Assessment - Quiz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A brief quiz was held in the practical class on urogenital development. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lab 9 Assessment - Peer Assessment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lab 10 Assessment - Stem Cells | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
As part of the assessment for this course, you will give a 15 minutes journal club presentation in Lab 10. For this you will in your current student group discuss a recent (published after 2011) original research article (not a review!) on stem cell biology or technology.
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Lab 11 Assessment - Heart Development | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Read the following recent review article on heart repair and from the reference list identify a cited research article and write a brief summary of the paper's main findings. Then describe how the original research result was used in the review article.
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Lab Attendance
Z5015014 (talk) 14:35, 5 August 2016 (AEST)
Z5015014 (talk) 14:40, 12 August 2016 (AEST)
Week 1 Homework
Team Role
I studied the Belbin Team Roles in a previous course and identified myself as a Teamworker, which I still definitely agree with, but I'd probably also add that I have the tendencies of a Complete Finisher. In group assignments I always prefer not to take charge and rather to provide support by facilitating discussions and encouraging good communication within the group. In the past, I've often mediated between my real life friends when conflict happens so I'm comfortable in doing that for any group situation I find myself in. I'm also very indecisive as a person and I know this reflects into any group work that I do because I find it difficult if I have to lead or make choices for the rest of the team. I would also say that because I don't particularly look forward to group assignments in the first place, because I'd much rather complete a task by myself, I can sometimes be a Complete Finisher. I know that I hesitate having to rely on other people because I worry that they won't do something the way I would have chosen to do it.
Lecture 1: Fertilisation (2/8/16)
I've always found fertilisation to be an exciting and interesting topic. Even though I've studied it before in previous courses I still find it so fascinating just how much goes into the 'simple' union of a sperm and an egg cell. The way that so many processes and reactions and biological design come together to allow fertilisation to happen really amazes me. But I think the most interesting thing I heard in today's lecture was about the zona pellucida and the ZP2 protein, and how it's used as a signal to attract the sperm to bind to the ovum, and then modified to prevent polyspermy by stopping additional sperm from binding. I'd never learnt about this before so it was really interesting to understand the mechanism involved.
Mark Hill (talk) 12:36, 5 August 2016 (AEST) Very good. maybe a little to many sub-sub-sub- headings, this will get messy. I will discuss in today's lab online formatting etc. |
Lab 1 Assessment
IVF culture medium affects post-natal weight in humans during the first 2 years of life.[1]
Sander H.M. Kleijkers, Aafke P.A. van Montfoort, Luc J.M. Smits, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Tessa J. Roseboom, Ewka C.M. Nelissen, Edith Coonen, Josien G. Derhaag, Lobke Bastings, Inge E.L. Schreurs, Johannes L.H. Evers, and John C.M. Dumoulin
- In this study, Kleijkers et al. investigated the relationship between the culture media used for embryos during the process of IVF and the subsequent development of the IVF children in early life. This followed on from previous research in which it was observed that the choice of culture medium had an impact on birthweight as well as development of the fetus during pregnancy. 1432 IVF treatments were initially involved and each was randomly allocated to either grow in Cook medium or Vitrolife medium. From this, 126 embryos from the Cook group and 168 embryos from the Vitrolife group were successfully birthed and used for further study. Kleijkers et al. contacted all of the parents two years after the initial birth for records of the postnatal weight, height, and head circumference of their child over the two year period. Statistical analysis and different analytical models were used to compare the collected data. It was observed that the weight of singletons whose embryos had been cultured in Cook medium was consistently lower than that of the Vitrolife group; this confirms that the effect of culture media on fetal growth, as had been previously researched, persists in early postnatal development. Kleijkers et al. propose that these results show the sensitivity of the human embryo to its environment, whether in vivo or in vitro. Hence because the chosen media for the embryo is the environment it grows in before implantation, the adaptation of this embryo to the media, possibly by epigenetic modification, is seen to have consequences for later development. This emphasises the need for further research into the growth media used for IVF treatment to ensure an optimal environment for the preimplantation growth of the embryo, and therefore both prenatal and postnatal development of an IVF child.
Mark Hill 18 August 2016 - You have added the citation correctly and written a good brief summary of the article findings. You also seem to have practiced using some of the Wiki formatting tools. | Assessment |
Lab 2 Assessment
Human blastocyst attached to decidualized human endometrial stromal cells after 72 hours of co-culture.[2]