BSCI 410     Molecular Genetics       Spring 2012
A blended course
Instructor: Steve Mount
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Schedule

Online content, including lectures, is posted on Blackboard.
Online content for each unit will be posted after Thursday's meeting (by Monday). Online quizzes for each unit should be taken by the date specified on the Course Wiki. Points will be taken off for failure to attempt the quiz by the specified date (1 point) and for failure to pass a quiz by the time of the next exam (3 points).

Week
(Mon.)

Meneely
chapter

Topic

Units

1/23

Overview

1/30

Ch. 1

The Logic of Genetic Analysis
  • Informatics: Internet resources
  • M1: The Logic of Genetic Analysis

    • 2/6

    Review of Mendel's laws.
  • Mendel's Laws

    • 2/13

    		Ch. 2

    Model Organisms:
    Saccharomyces cerevisiae,
    Caenorhabditis elegans,
    Drosophila melanogaster,
    Arabidopsis thaliana,
    Mus musculus

  • M2: Model Organisms

    • 2/20

    Exam Feb. 23

    		 Online collaborative review rather than online content.

    2/27

    		Ch. 3

    Identifying Mutants
  • Probability: Principles of probability for genetics
  • M3: Identifying mutants

    • 3/5

    		Ch. 4

    Classifying Mutants
  • M4: Classifying mutants
  • DNA: Replication, repair, recombination, segregation
  • Linkage: Principles of human genetics I, linkage analysis

    • 3/12

    		Ch. 5

    Mapping and "cloning"
  • M5: Connecting a phenotype to a DNA sequence

    • 3/26

    Exam March 29

    		 Online collaborative review rather than online content.

    4/2

    		Ch. 6
    Ch. 7

    Reverse Genetics
    Genome-wide Screens
  • GWAS: Human genetics II, genome-wide association studies
  • M6: Finding a phenotype for cloned genes
  • M7: Genome-wide mutant screens

    • 4/9

    		Ch. 8

    Molecular Biology
  • M8: Molecular Analysis of Gene Expression
  • epigenetics: heritable changes other than sequence

    • 4/16

    		Ch. 9

    Analysis of Gene Activity
  • M9: Analysis of Gene Activity using Mutants
  • RNA: Transcriptional and post-transcriptional gene expression

    • 4/23

    Exam April 26

    		 Online collaborative review rather than online content.

    4/30

    		Chs. 10, 11

    Gene Interactions
  • M10: Using one gene to find more genes
  • M11: Epistasis and genetic pathways

    • 5/7

    		Ch. 12

    Systems Biology
  • M12: Pathways, networks and systems
    • Final:

    Exam May 12

    		 May 10 will be a review session.

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