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The Cell and Developmental Biology
Web Site Development Team
Prof. Steve Scadding and Sandra Ackerley (with the assistance of Ian Smith) began this web site in the Fall of 1996 to provide some supplementary material for the Developmental Biology course in the Zoology Department at the University of Guelph. Since then we have added material to the site semester by semester. The site began with just serial sections of the 3-4 mm frog tadpole and it has now grown to over 3000 files of text and images. We have had fun developing it and the site you see now is a team effort of several people with suggestions from many others. Scroll down the page and meet some of the different people who have contributed to the site.
We were pleased to find a positive review of the site in the Newsletter of the American Society for Cell Biology.
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Welcome! I was on the faculty of the Zoology Department
for 30 years from 1974 to 2004. I started using the web in the teaching
of developmental biology in 1996 and then subsequently started offering
the introductory cell biology course entirely online in 1998. Teaching
was my passion and this led me to spend a year as Acting Director
of Teaching Support Services in 2002. I retired in 2004 and now spend
my time on photography, hiking, travel, grandchildren, and a wide
assortment of other interests.
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Hello and welcome. I am the Laboratory Instructor for the Developmental
Biology and Histology courses in the Department of Integrative Biology
(formerly Zoology). I have also been involved in Distance Education
Version of the Cell Biology course since it was first offered in the
Spring of 1998. Learning computer graphics and web page design has
been a great experience. My hope for the web site in the future is
to develop more sophisticated and interactive learning modules. |
| Mr. Ian Smith |
Ian Smith began our web site, taking on the roles of illustrator, graphic artist and HTML programmer. Thanks to Ian we have many, many pages of labelled serial transverse sections with accompanying text and thumbnails! Ian currently operates the College of Biological Science's Bioimage Illustration Facility. |
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Suzanne Gray was instrumental in putting together
the Glossary
and Developmental
Biology WWW Links pages as an undergraduate student employed in
the Ontario Work Study Program during the winter semester of 1998.
In the photograph, Suzanne is seen beside a termite mound in the outback of Australia in the spring of 1998 while attending the Tropical Ecology Field Course. |
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Hans Christoffersen is a graduate of the
Ontario Veterinary College here in Guelph. When he was a veterinary
student, Hans came over to work in the Department of Zoology during
the summer of 1998 and tried his hand at programming, graphics, and
page design. Hans developed a very large number of web pages for this
site.
Hans is seen in the centre of the photo with former veterinary classmates Bonnie (left) and Jinelle (right). They are practising tying full cerclage wires around a broken "bone" (actually a piece of wooden dowling). |
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Gavin Park came to work for us during the summer of 1999 with considerable programming experience. Gavin gave the Cell and Developmental Biology web site a new style and introduced us to new web page design software. Other examples of Gavin's work can be seen at the Clinical Pharmacology Review web site. |
| Genevieve Babcock |
Genevieve worked on the web site as an undergraduate student employed through the Ontario Work Study Program during the winter semester of 2000. With Genevieve's help we have been able to make revisions, revisions, and more revisions to text, page lay-outs, images, and links! Genevieve graduated in June, 2000 with an B. Sc. in Honours Wildlife Biology and went on to attend teachers' college. Congratulations Genevieve! |
Development of this site was made possible through the financial support of the University of Guelph (Department of Zoology, Instructional Development Grants Program of Teaching Support Services, the Undergraduate Research Assistantship Program) and the Ontario Work Study Program.
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Send comments
to:
Sandra K. Ackerley (ackerley@uoguelph.ca),
Department
of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1.
Page last revised on May 31, 2005
