It's Spring 2008.
The Biomorphs Strike Back!
Biomorphs Home
BIOL 103 Biology in Science Fiction
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Learn biology through science fiction books and films.
Apply quantitative reasoning to urgent problems in biology.
Defeat the Biomorphs before they defeat Earth.
Prof. Joan Slonczewski
Syllabus 2008
Student Projects
Book List
Previous Instructors
Course developed with support from
Kenyon's HHMI award
.
How do Biomorphs reproduce --
and avoid self-destruction? (
Time Machine, Star Trek
)
How do species evolve? Could humans evolve into something very different? (Vonnegut's
Galapagos
)
What kind of planet do we need for life?
How can a biosphere sustain itself?
(
Dune; A Door into Ocean
)
How does genetics create us--and create new life?
Could genetics make us immortal?
(
Jurassic Park
;
A Door into Ocean
)
What if the Biomorphs try to destroy us from within? (
Brain Plague
)
BIOL 103 Student Projects:
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Whales
by Lainey McFarlane and Molly Papows
The Planet Ralinius
by Brian Cannon '05
Cows in Space
by Rosey Karr '05
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Biological Warfare
by Morgan Scudder-Davis and Peter Moore
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Planetary Custodian
by Liesel Schmidt and Sam Quest-Neubert
Modern Zlerin
by Ellen Schuler '06
Artificial Intelligence
, by Atul Varma '00
Invasion from Zeerocks
by Melissa Morris '02
Biosphere II
by Diana Carroll '04 and Erin Walker '02
The Yumbrabaul
by Amber Poirier-Slocum '02 and Tim Lloyd '02
Superfund
by Karen Danis '02
Seed Banks
by Diann Benti '04
CY
by Whitney Bratton '06
The Earth--After Hybridization
by Ginger Marshall '04
The Secrets of the Seaswallower
, by Greg Ferrell '98
Ellie and Oscar's Trip
, by Sibel Algon '98 and Vanessa Brown '98
The Planet Altoid
, by Drew Dinsmore '01 and Brendan Wilson-Barthes '99