PLANT MICROTECHNIQUE COURSE

[DR A MACDONALD BIOLOGY]

I would be interested in exchanging information on course content/procedures 
for a one semester course.
I normally take six senior students through basic procedures, for example, 
paraffin, GMA, chromosome squash, whole mount, cryostat sectioning, the 
microscope, photomicrography, darkroom techniques, various stain 
procedures (safranin/fast green, iron and Sass's hematoxylin, PAS, Feulgen) 
comparing CRAF and FAA effects. I have had great success dewaxing AFTER 
staining to avoid up and down ETOH series.
I would like information on things like texts, good plant material ( I like 
Araucaria stem), stain procedures to illustrate principles, 
photomicrographic exercises, problems to avoid/success stories, etc.

My email is AMACDONA at CS-ACAD-LAN.LAKEHEADU.CA

Beware, I am a computer illiterate!

Alastair D. Macdonald, Biology Dept. Lakehead University,
Thunder Bay, ON. Canada P7B 5E1