Courses recently offered
Contemporary Genetics (BIOLOGY 408)
Undergraduate, Spring semester 2021
Capstone course. Consideration of the state-of-the-art genetic technologies and their impact on society, environment and the economy.
Prerequisite: BIOLOGY 301 (General Genetics)
Contemporary Genetics Syllabus 2019
Evolutionary Transcriptomics (BIOLOGY 589)
Graduate, Fall semester 2019
Seminar where we read and discuss papers on experimental design, methods, system-specific considerations, and analytic techniques in transcriptomics.
Discussion summaries and reading schedule
Link to previous reading schedule
Past courses
ConGen 2015, 2018, 2019
Application of Next Gen Sequence Data to Understand Genetic Population Structure and Detect Natural Selection.
September 9-15, 2018
Link to 2018 ConGen website
August 31 – September 5, 2015
Link to 2015 ConGen website
September 2-7, 2019
Link to ConGen website
Genome Biology (BIOLOGY 335)
Undergraduate, Fall semester 2018
Comparative analysis of genomes from bacteria to humans including methods for sequencing, genotyping, annotation of genomes, population genetics and evolution.
Prerequisite: BIOLOGY 301 (General Genetics)
Text: “Genomes” T.A. Brown
Genome Biology Syllabus 2018