BOT*2100 Life Strategies of Plants
Instructors
Dr. Usher Posluszny received his Ph.D. from McGill University specializing in the area of developmental plant morphology. He continued his research on the structure, development and evolution of aquatic plants during his postdoctoral study at Harvard University and as a Life Science Fellow at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. Elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1976 he began his appointment at the University of Guelph in 1977 and is currently a professor in the Department of Botany. Dr. Posluszny continues to work with freshwater and marine plants as well as members of the grape family the Vitaceae. Over the past five years he has developed and taught a number of ethnobotanical courses including Plants and Human Use (BOT*1200), Plants and Biology and People (BOT*2000).
Dr. Posluszny can be contacted by e-mail at uposlusz@uoguelph.ca or at extension 52745. His office is in the New Science Complex, Room 4447.
Dr. Ian Tetlow was awarded a B.Sc. (Hons) in Plant Science from the Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K. in 1986. His Ph.D. project, undertaken at University College of North Wales (Bangor), U.K., focused on the physiological responses of plants to attack by biotrophic fungi with an emphasis on the effects of pathogens on plant carbon metabolism. Following his Ph.D. Dr. Tetlow began post-doctoral work at the University of Manchester, U.K. studying the regulation of carbon metabolism in non-photosynthetic plastids. Following post-doctoral studies Dr. Tetlow continued to work in the area of non-photosynthetic carbon metabolism and was awarded a Leverhulme Special Research Fellowship, followed by an Industrial Fellowship, both of which were held at the University of Manchester. In 2002 Dr. Tetlow moved to the University of Guelph and is currently an Assistant Professor in MCB. Current research interests involve understanding the role of protein-protein interactions and protein phosphorylation in regulating starch metabolism, and the regulation of vitamin E biosynthesis in plastids. Dr. Tetlow also teaches Metabolism in the Whole Life of Plants (BOT*4380).
Dr. Tetlow can be contacted by email at itetlow@uoguelph.ca or at extension 52735. His office is in the New Science Complex, Room 4471 (laboratory 4409).
Your teaching assistants in the laboratories will be Denise McClellan, Christine Holley and Chris Trobacher. They are responsible for dealing with your questions and making sure that you understand the procedures. In addition, they will be able to give you help in getting all the exercises to work. They will grade the LAB REPORTS that are handed in at the end of laboratories (see Grades). Denise McClellan, who can be reached at dmcclell@uoguelph.ca or at extension 54818, is also responsible for running the teaching laboratory, and for setting up, growing and caring for the plant material.
Texts
The required text for the course is
Plant Biology, 2nd Edition
By Linda E. Graham, James M. Graham and Lee W. Wilcox
Published by Prentice Hall, Pearson Education, 2006
The required laboratory manual is
BOT*2100
Life Strategies of Plants
D.J. McClellan and W.E. Rauser
Department of Botany
College of Biological Science
University of Guelph
© 2008
The manual and lab report sheets are available for sale in SCIE Room 4111 for $7.00 beginning Sept. 4 for 1 week. You are responsible for bringing this manual to every laboratory.
Where & When
Lectures
MACK Room 115
Tuesdays at
10:00 - 11:20 AM
Thursdays at
10:00 - 11:20 AM
The first lecture is on Thursday, Sept. 4 and lectures conclude Tuesday, Nov. 25. You are welcome to ask any questions during lectures, the laboratories or at any other times.
Laboratories
Laboratories will take place in Room 3304 Science Building. Laboratories are scheduled for
Wednesday at 2:30 - 5:20 PM
Thursday at 2:30 - 5:20 PM
Laboratories start on Wednesday Sept. 10 and Thursday Sept. 11.
Make sure that you read the pertinent lab exercises ahead of time. Consider the questions posed in each exercise; they can help you in completing the LAB REPORTS. Remember that you will be examined on laboratory-based material in the mid-term and final examinations. If you miss a laboratory due to illness please notify us immediately or bring documentation soon thereafter.
