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Build-A-Critter
(BAC) is an ongoing project in vertebrate skeletal preparation,
articulation, and mounting. This serves as a set of student group projects
in the biannual offering of my BIO
270 Vertebrate Zoology course. This project also functions to expand
and diversify the Wesleyan Osteology Collection of the Wesleyan Biology
Progam.
Do-It-Yourself
Neuron (DIYN) is a set of electronic hardware "boards", which simulate
particular aspects of the function of neuronal membranes, neurons, or
physiological amplifiers. They are used in my
BIO 325 Neurobiology course to
teach students about theoretical and physical models, as well as to facilitate
learning to use electrophysiological recording instrumentation.
FreeB
is a accumulating collection of "home-made" devices and apparatuses of my own
design for use in research and teaching laboratories. These either meet
particular, unique instrumentation needs in my
BIO 340 Physiology and
BIO 315 Animal Behavior
courses, or they serve as economical substitutes for expensive commercial
instrumentation.
Ouzel
is a set of parametric and/or Monte Carlo computer
simulations under development for classroom or laboratory instruction in evolution and behavioral
ecology. I have implemented simulations of
of the Gambler's Ruin approach to speciation/common descent and a foraging model
of search strategies and search images for use in my BIO 315
Animal Behavior course.
Recurrence
Time History Matching (RTHM) is a novel method for enhanced correlational
analysis of temporal linkages between neuronal spike trains.
The software set includes the central graphical analytical program, a
stochastic artificial spike-train generator, and a novel inferential statistical
utility for 2-D scatterplots.
Rev. 12.09