Spring 2001

Tuesday and Thursday: 1-3

Room 6301

Course Director: Arthur J. Lustig, Ph.D.
 

DATE	TUESDAY		DATE	THURSDAY
			Jan. 11	Introduction to course  Arthur Lustig, Ph.D.
Jan. 16	Recombination 1 Recombinational Models Prescott Deininger, Ph.D.		Jan. 18	Recombination 2 Recombinational Models   Prescott Deininger, Ph.D.
Jan. 23	Recombinatiion 3 Transposition Prescott Deininger, Ph.D.		Jan. 25	Recombination 4 Transposition  Prescott Deininger, Ph.D.

Jan. 30	Genomic Instability 1 Prescott Deininger, Ph.D.***		Feb. 1	Genetic Instability 2 Prescott Deininger, Ph.D.***
Feb. 6	Eukaryotic Mitotic Recombination*** Arthur Lustig, Ph.D.		Feb. 8	Eukaryotic Mitotic Recombination*** Arthur Lustig, Ph.D.
Feb. 13	DNA Replication 1: An Overview Jim Karam, Ph.D.		Feb. 15	DNA Replication 2: Origins and Initiation Jim Karam, Ph.D.
Feb. 20	DNA Replication 3: Origins and Initiation Jim Karam, Ph.D.		Feb. 22	DNA Replication 4: Elongation Complexes Jim Karam, Ph.D.
Feb. 29	Mardi Gras		March 1	Mardi Gras

March 6	DNA Replication 5: Crosstalk between DNA Replication, Transcription and Translation Jim Karam, Ph.D.***		March 8	DNA Replicatin 6: DNA Replication in the Cell Cycle Jim Karam, Ph.D.***
March 13	DNA Replication-The End of Replication Arthur Lustig, Ph.D.		March 15	DNA Repair 1 Chuck Miller, Ph.D.
March 20	EXAM		March 22	DNA Repair 2 Chuck Miller, Ph.D.
March 27	Reg 1-Prokaryotic   Michael Schurr, Ph.D.		March 29	Reg 2-Prokaryotic   Michael Schurr, Ph.D.
April 3	Transcriptional Reg 3-Prokaryotic   Michael Schurr, Ph.D.		April 5	Transcriptional Reg 4 Eukaryotic-Basic Elements Arthur Lustig, Ph.D.
April 10	Transcriptional Reg 5 Silencer & Insulators*** Arthur Lustig, Ph.D.		April 12	Transcriptional Reg 6 High Order Chromatin Structure*** Arthur Lustig, Ph.D.

April 18	Transcriptional Control Transcriptional Termination Mary Clancy, Ph.D.		April 20	Transcriptional Control 2 Transcriptional Termination Mary Clancy, Ph.D.
April 25	Post Transcriptional Control Polyadenylation Mary Clancy, Ph.D.		April 27	Post-Transcriptional Control Polyadenylation Mary Clancy, Ph.D.

MAY 2

EXAM WEEK

MAY 4

EXAM WEEK

GBCH 718- Biochemical Genetics

Tuesday and Thursday: 1-3

Room 6301

Course Director: Arthur J. Lustig, Ph.D.
 
 

This course emphasizes the critical analysis of manuscripts and solutions to experimental problems in molecular genetics, as well as a an reinforcement of some of the more advanced topics in geneitcs and molecular biology. There are four sections to this course: DNA Dynamics, DNA Replication, Transcriptional Control, and Higher Order Transcriptional and Post-Translational Control. One week prior to discussion of the papers (led by one of the students), students will be given the paper to be discussed on the Tuesday and Thursday of the subsequent week. The course instructor will act more as a facilitator than a didactic lecturer.

We will require that each student purchase An Introduction to Genetic Analysis, available in mid-December. The section dealing with the topic must be thoroughly read by the student prior to the Discussion groups.

Instructors of Section 1-Jan.16-Feb.8: Prescott Deininger, Ph.D., & Arthur Lustig, Ph.D.

Instructors of Section 2 (Feb.13-Mar.22): Jim Karam, Ph.D., Charles Miller, Ph.D. & Arthur Lustig, Ph.D.

Instructor of Section 3 (March 27-April 12): Michael Schurr, Ph.D. & Arthur J. Lustig, Ph.D.

Instructor of Section 4: (April 18- April 27): Mary Clancy, Ph.D.

1. Style

Individual and group--role as a facilitator--there is a course text which is An Introduction to Genetic Analysis and specific review articles-these are meant as background.

2. Grading

Based on individual performance in groups

Exams that ask students to analyze data--after each section