ULM

dr. joydeep

bhattacharjee

Courses Taught


THE LIVING WORLD (BIOL 1001): A non-majors’ course covering basic scientific and biological principles with an emphasis on the structure and processes of organisms. The course also includes a survey of the major types of living organisms.

PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY II (BIOL 1022): A majors’ course dealing with natural selection, population genetics, speciation, adaptation, phylogeny, co-evolution, extinction, ecological interactions, human evolution and its ecological impact.

PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY II LABORATORY (BIOL 1023): A laboratory designed to accompany Biology 1022.

ECONOMIC BOTANY (BIOL 2050): The history and applied uses of plants as food, fibers, lumber, drugs, and related commodities.

ECOLOGICAL METHODS (BIOL 4004): I have revised this course, incorporating recent advents in the subject, including a general understanding of the computational/modelling aspects in ecology.

PLANT COMMUNITY ECOLOGY (BIOL 4044): This course essentially deals with the study of plant populations and communities and their habitat with emphasis on the communities of the south central US. I will be creating a special section in the syllabus that talks about the importance of wetland plant communities and their importance in maintaining the high-level of biodiversity seen in the south western US.

ECOSYSTEM AND COMMUNITIES (BIOL 4113): This is a university capstone course. I have developed this course and am teaching it once every two years (Spring 2010 and Spring 2012). The major emphasis of this course is to tie the concepts of human mediated ecosystem changes globally.

RESEARCH METHODS (BIOL 5005): Principles underlying biological research. Emphasis on the scientific method, statistical analysis and their application in biological investigation. Prerequisite: Credit or registration in 5006

GRADUATE SEMINAR (BIOL 5007): I redesigned this course as a two-part process. During the first part, students make a speech presentation on a topic of their choice and are peer evaluated. In the second part, they are required to talk on a topic relevant to general biology. Students were also asked to critique two scientific papers.

PLANT SYSTEMATICS (BIOL 5034): I developed and taught this course in the Fall of 2008. The main components of taxonomy: description, identification, nomenclature, and classification were discussed, including in-depth evaluation of 10 plant orders.

 

News

Nov, 2016
Dr. Bhattacharjee will travel to India as an invited speaker on the use of UAV's in conservation

Sept, 2016
Plant Ecology Lab member, Melissa Bloch wins best poster award at Louisiana Association of Professional Biologists Annual Meeting in Baton Rouge

Tanner Hart, graduate student presents his research at Louisiana Association of Professional Biologists in Baton Rouge

Dr. Bhattacharjee was awarded a travel Grant to attend the AMERIFLUX PI meeting in Golden, Colorado

August 2016
ULM Biology undergrad Nicholas ("Nick") Carlson joins the Plant Ecology Lab
June, 2016
ULM Biology undergrad, Melissa Bloch travels to India on a 1-month research project, working in the Himalayas. She was offered an internship by ATREE