COURSE ADMINISTRATION
Course Materials
Sections of the text, Culture of Animal Cells: A Manual of Basic Technique, by
R. Ian Freshney (2000) are available as Course Notes at the Rice Campus Bookstore.
The Lab Protocols and carbon copy laboratory notebooks are also available at the
Rice Campus Bookstore. Two textbooks on statistics are on reserve in the library.
Honor Code Policy
Much of the learning in this lab will be from coaching and interaction with
other students, the instructor and the T.A.s. It is important that a collegial
environment is present. For some experiments, students will need to share data
with one another and/or the whole class. However, the maintenance of the lab
notebook (including Introduction, Materials and Methods, Data and Summary),
answers to Questions, and the draft and final poster must be original work.
You may discuss strategies for data preparation and interpretation with other
students, but you must do the graphing, tabulating, writing, etc. yourself.
You may NOT consult another student's lab report, poster, or notebook or any
posters or notebooks from previous classes. You may consult the Lab Protocols,
Course Notes, other textbooks, review articles, and published research papers
in preparation of your poster or to answer any Questions. Obviously, information
taken from journals, books, and websites must be adequately referenced.
Attendance Policy
Students are required to attend all Monday and Wednesday sessions of the laboratory.
On Friday, students need to feed their cells between 12:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m.
Interviews, other classes, or extracurricular activities are not valid excuses.
Illness and family emergencies will be dealt with on an individual basis. Contact
Dr. Saterbak immediately as soon as an emergency arises. On Fridays, all students
must attend lecture.
Late Policy
1. Laboratory Notebook pages: Pages should be turned in by Monday at 1:00 p.m.
in the appropriately labeled box in the lab (Keck 108). Pages that are past
this deadline but arrive before 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday will be graded (e.g.
comments, suggestions) but will receive a score of Ö-. Pages missing the
Wednesday deadline will not be graded (score of 0).
2. Answers to Experimental & Analysis Questions: Laboratory notebook pages
should be turned in by Monday at 1:00 p.m. in the appropriately labeled box
in the lab (Keck 108). Pages that are past this deadline but arrive before 1:00
p.m. on Wednesday will be scored to a maximum of 50% of the points available.
Pages missing the Wednesday deadline will not be graded (score of 0).
3. Draft and Final Posters: The deadlines for the posters are given above. Posters
missing this deadline will be scored to a maximum of 50% of the points available.
4. Illness and family emergencies will be dealt with on an individual basis.
Contact Dr. Saterbak immediately as soon as an emergency arises.
TAKE HOME MESSAGE: TURN EVERYTHING IN ON TIME. THE PENALTIES ARE STEEP.
| Any student with a documented disability needing academic adjustments
or accommodations is requested to speak with me during the first two weeks
of class. All discussions will remain confidential. Students with disabilities
should also contact Disability Support Services in the Ley Student Center.
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