Schedule Fall 2019
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Date
Lecture Description
Chapter(s)
1
27th August
Organizational Meeting: The Genetic Material DNA structure/function, what is a gene?
1.1 -1.7; 1.9 -1.10; 2.1 -2.6; 2. 8 - 2.11; 4     
2
29th. August
The Replicon and DNA Replication
10; 11:1 - 11.2, 11.9 -11.12;11.14 -11.15; 12.1-12.2; 12.11-12.12
3
3rd. September
Chromosomes, Nucleosomes & Chromatin
8 & 10
4
5th. September
Mutations & DNA Repair,
1.11- 1.15; 2.8; 14
5
10th. September
Mitosis and Meiosis (Review) DNA Recombination

Chapters 13, 14 and handouts
6
12th. September
Transposons and Retrotransposons
15
7
17th. September
Genome Content/Genome Sequences/Gene numbers, Clusters and Repeats
Lecture 1Exam Question
6 , 7 & 8
8
19th. September
Human Gene Mapping; phenotype to genotype
Assigned articles & handouts
***
24th. September
In class Paper Discussion I
Gene Paper Assignments
Assigned article
***
26th. September
Student Presentations I
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1st. October
Exam I
9
3rd. October
Basal RNA Polymerase Initiation Complexes
18-1 -18.8; 19.15-19.17
10
8th. October
Transcription Regulatory Elements in Gene Promoters
26.7; 18.9-18.12 
11
10th. October
Transcriptional Activation & Regulation
26.1 - 26.6 
12
15th. October

Chromatin Structure II & Gene Regulation

26.9 - 26.13
***
15th. October
Last day to withdraw and receive a " W"
13
17th. October
Other Gene Regulatory Mechanisms
Handouts
14
22nd October
Epigenetic Inheritance
27 & 28
15
24th. October
Epigenetic Inheritance
Handouts
***
29th. October
In class Paper Discussion II
Assigned Article
***
31st. October
In class Paper Discussion III
Assigned Article
5th. November
Exam II

16
7th. November
Nuclear Splicing

19.1 - 19.11; 23.9;21.1 - 21.6; 21.9 
17
12th. November
Post Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms

19.2 - 19.13; 21.10; 22.12 & Assigned Articles
18
14th. November
Regulatory RNA -siRNA, miRNA

 

  30.3 - 30.4 &
Assigned Articles 
19
19th. November
Regulatory RNA-piwiRNA, IncRNA
29.3 & Assigned Article   
***
21st. November

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25th- 30th. Nov
Thanksgiving Break No Class
 
20
3rd. December
Gene Therapy GENE PAPERS DUE
Assigned Articles & Handouts 
***
5th. December

Student Presentations
Assigned Articles
***
11th. November
Exam III


 


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