Welcome to BIOL6000/8000 Environmental Toxicology and Health!

Tentative outline of the course

Lecture topics may change, therefore check the course Web site often for new announcements.

Take-home assignments:
Assignment 1 Hormesis Due Feb 20, 2008
Assignment 2 Dose-response analysis Due Feb 27, 2008

All assignments are due in class on the due date or earlier. The deadline is strictly enforced, and late penalty (5 pts per hour) is applied.
 

Month Day Topic
Jan 9 Introduction
11 Methods and goals of environmental toxicology
16 Special topic: Environmental history of DDT
18 Special topic: AVM.  HABs
23 Special topic: HABs (continued)
25 Special topic: Major classes of contaminants
30 Uptake, transformation, elimination and bioaccumulation of contaminants
Feb 1 Uptake, transformation, elimination and bioaccumulation of contaminants (cont.)
6 Uptake, transformation, elimination and bioaccumulation of contaminants (cont.)
8 Hormesis (in class discussion)
13 Test 1.
15 Independent study: A take-home question for test 2 (announced in the class)
20 Dose-response and time-response
22 Dose-response and time-response (cont.)
27 Toxic mixtures. Synergism, antagonism, additivity.
29 Special topic: Trace metals
Mar 12 Special topic: Trace metals (cont.)
14 Special topic: Metabolic effects of trace metals and costs of resistance
19 Special topic: Tributyltin
21 Special topic: Tributyltin
26 Special topic: Endocrine disruptors
28 Special topic: Endocrine disruptors
Apr 2 Students' presentations
4 Students' presentations
9 Organic pollutants and metabolism of xenobiotics
11 Test 2
16 Special topic: Radionuclides
18 Evolutionary adaptation to contaminants  
23 Evolutionary adaptation to contaminants (cont.) 
25 Test 3
Final essay due on the day of the final exam! You must be present for the discussion(University requirement).