Kinetics Continued

Based on the results of the last survey we will continue with the Sodium and Potassium Channel Kinetics Tutorial.

I am not discussing homework, for several reasons. First we are continuing this tutorial. Second no one turned in a bonus. And finally, the observations that people turned in were not really in a format that was suitable for presentation. For example, there might be a family of curves and an indication of how you were changing a parameter but no indication which side of the family of curves corresponds to which endpoint of the values of the parameter. Of course I've told the class that the PowerPoint requirements are low to give you a chance to complete the tutorials. But since we are taking two days to do this tutorial, I thought we'd try something different. Only one observation will be required for the second Channel Kinetics assignment, but I want it to be your most interesting observation and I want you to communicate it effectively to the rest of the class.

Homework R (1) Complete the Kinetics Tutorial. (2) Decide what was the most interesting observation you learned (or were reminded of) from completing the tutorial (even if it is something you turned in last week). (3) Put that one observation into a PowerPoint in such a way that it effectively communicates what you learned to me, to the rest of the class, and to a hypothetical computational neuroscientist, who knows, for example what minf is but who may not have worked with NEURONS in ACTION before.

We will discuss what you have done in class next Tuesday.