MCB 421: Tentative Schedule for Fall 2007
A very tentative outline of the course schedule is listed below. Check for schedule changes and announcements regularly at the MCB 421 web site. Click here for a pdf version of the schedule. Despite the best intentions, there are often changes in the schedule during the course. You ARE responsible for material presented in guest lectures.
| W Aug 22 | What Is Genetics and Why Do It? |
| M Aug 27 | Chromosomes, Plasmids, and Phage; Sources of Genetic Variation; Mutants and Mutations |
| W Aug 29 | Spontaneous Mutations, Mutator Strains, and Mutagens |
| M Sept 3 | Labor Day |
| W Sept 5 | Isolation of Mutants: Selections, Screens, and Enrichments |
| M Sept 10 | Mutants (continued) |
| W Sept 12 | Reversion and Intergenic Suppression |
| M Sept 17 | Interaction and Bypass Suppressors |
| W Sept 19 | Complementation, cis Ð trans tests, Negative Dominance |
| M Sept 24 | Homologous Recombination- Professor Andrei Kuzminov |
| W Sept 26 | Exam #1 |
| M Oct 1 | Generalized Transduction |
| W Oct 3 | Generalized Transduction |
| M Oct 8 | Phage, Lytic Growth, Host Restriction-Modification Systems |
| W Oct 10 | Lysogeny |
| M Oct 15 | Site-specific Recombination |
| W Oct 17 | Site-specific Recombination and Specialized Transduction |
| M Oct 22 | Discovery and Properties of Transposons |
| W Oct 24 | Exam #2 |
| M Oct 29 | Uses of Transposons |
| W Oct 31 | Operon and Gene Fusions; Reporter Genes |
| M Nov 5 | Site-directed Mutagenesis |
| W Nov 7 | Site-directed Mutagenesis |
| M Nov 12 | Conjugation #1 - Dr. Steve Farrand |
| W Nov 14 | Conjugation #2 - Dr. Steve Farrand |
| Nov 16 - 25 | Thanksgiving Break |
| M Nov 26 | Other Methods |
| W Nov 28 | Developing New Bacterial genetic tools and Applying Genetics to New Systems |
| M Dec 3 | Exam #3 |
| W Dec 5 | Review Session |
| M Dec 10 | Final Exam 8:00 to 11:00 AM |