TEACHING EXPERIMENTS

WITH CHLAMYDOMONAS

One of the reasons for starting this site is to provide a series of experiments, suitable for use in undergraduate teaching. Currently there are not many that have been tested rigorously, and several of the existing experiments are variations on a theme. This section will provide information on proven experiments and also on well-established research techniques that could well be used as the basis for a lab exercise.

Existing experiments: (* indicates it is available as a kit from the Chlamydomonas Center)

• Deflagellation

• Mating

• Transformation

• Thermotolerance

• Uptake and incorporation of 35S

• Isolation of new strains from the wild

•Counting Chlamys

• Phototaxis (*)

• Complementation in paralyzed mutants(*)

• Examining motility defects(*)

• ˙Hydrogen production(*)

• Uniparental inheritance(*)

• A six week project on flagella structure/function