About the course
compmed10sc
Prerequisites: Animal dissection will be required
This course will introduce the student to common laboratory, domestic, and exotic mammals through lectures, dissection labs and student presentations. Using a comparative approach, we will investigate the unique adaptations of species in terms of their morphological, anatomical, and behavioral characteristics. We will study how these species interact with their own and other species (including humans), discuss basic evolution, and the devastating impact of habitat destruction on wild animals.
This class will provide the student with a deeper appreciation for the diversity of the mammalian orders, along with the fundamentals of comparative anatomy, physiology, and basic dissection techniques. In addition to dissection labs, Dr. B has a large collection of skulls, bones and plastinated organs that will facilitate learning mammalian anatomy. A field trip to the California Academy of Sciences will expose the students to the “behind the scenes” collection of 1000’s of mammalian species, and a field trip to a local zoo will enable students to appreciate behavior and locomotion of assorted mammals in their “native” habitats. Course assignments: There will be 1 exam, 1 short presentation on an evolutionary topic and 1 final power point presentation on a human/animal or animal/animal interaction or conflict. The presentations will highlight animals from the students' assigned mammalian orders. Summer reading assignments will help prepare students for this enjoyable but intensive class.
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Instructor Bio
Donna Bouley, DVM, PhD, eceived her D.V.M. from the University of Tennessee and received her Ph.D. in 1995 in Comparative and Experimental Medicine (University of Tennessee) studying the immunopathology of Herpetic Stromal Keratitis in mouse models. She obtained Diplomate status in the American College of Veterinary Pathologists in 1996, and served on the faculty at Texas A & M CVM until recruited to the Department of Comparative Medicine at Stanford in 1997. She is the Director of Necropsy Services for the VSC, and her collaborative research interests include phenotypic characterization of genetically engineered mice, host-pathogen interactions, and pathology of minimally invasive cancer treatments. Dr. Bouley founded and mentors Stanford’s community of Pre-vets and because of her extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education and to the quality of student life, was honored in 2007 as the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel recipient, and in 2011 was appointed as the Kleinheinz Family Fellow in the Bass University Fellows in Undergraduate Education Program. dbouley@stanford.edu
