Course Overview

Topics in protistology. Cellular evolution, cell biology, sex and reproduction, phylogeny and ecology of protists will be the subjects of this lecture.

Learning Achievement

The goal is to deepen your knowledge and interest on protists and to know the importance of protists in biology, through the up-to-date topics of protists given by five scientists who work on protist in different fields.

Competence

Lectures will give up-to-date hot topics of protistology for helping you to get interested in protistology.

Course prerequisites

None

Grading Philosophy

Essays (20% each).

Course schedule

Amazing diversity of protists
Endosymbiosis:an amaging mechanism of evolution
Asexual reproduction (cytokinesis) of Tetrahymena
Sexual reproduction (conjugation) of Tetrahymena
Unicell or Multicell? The life cycle of the cellular slime mold
Genome analysis of the cellular slime mold
Macro phylogeny of eukaryotes and supergroups
Heaven and hell in phylogenetic analyses: amitochondriate protists
Sexual reproduction of green algae
Organelle inheritance in green algae
Order of these topics is subject to change.

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Ishida Ken-ichiro,Degawa Yosuke,kuwayama hidekazu,Miyamura Shinichi

Other information

Lecture can only give you chances to get interested in the subjects and to deepen your knowledge and thoughts on it by yourself. Your positive attitude toward learning each subject is expected.

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