BIOL330-10S1 (C) Semester One 2010

Advanced Concepts in Genetics

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 22 February 2010
End Date: Sunday, 27 June 2010
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 7 March 2010
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 23 May 2010

Description

Advanced molecular genetics of animals, plants, bacteria and viruses, with an emphasis on recombinant DNA and genomic technologies and their applications, and population, quantitative and evolutionary genetics with a conservation emphasis.

The following is a brief outline of the topics that will be covered by the course, and the
lecturers involved in each of the sections.

Molecular Genetics: Jack Heinemann
In this set of lectures, the exceptions to the rules will be emphasized by outlining the extraordinary diversity of products that can arise from variations of central dogma reactions and how these variations are important for the biology of organism in which they occur.

Genome Biology: Anthony Poole
In this series of lectures, we will look at genetics from the perspective of genomes. We will
begin with an introduction to genome sequencing technologies, and gene finding and
annotation using computers, before shifting our focus to the biology and genetics of eukaryote
genomes.

Evolutionary Genetics: Tammy Steeves
These lectures will focus on the utility of genomic data to infer the evolutionary history of
taxa above and below the species level. Topics will include molecular evolution, molecular
dating, building/interpreting interspecific trees (phylogenetics), and building/interpreting
intraspecific networks (phylogeography).

Population/Conservation Genetics: Marie Hale
These lectures will focus on the processes that influence the creation, maintenance and
distribution of genetic variation in natural populations and provide an introduction to
quantitative genetic analysis.

Prerequisites

BIOL213 and BIOL231 and BIOL271. For students enrolled before 2010, BIOL231 and BIOL232 and BIOL271

Timetable Note

Lab sessions start at 2.10 pm week commencing Tuesday 23rd February (P stream) and Thursday 25th February (Q stream) in von Haast 121.  

Labs will run in weeks 1, 3, 5 and 6 in Term 1 and weeks 8, 9, 11 and 12 in Term 2.

Course Coordinator

Marie Hale

Lecturers

Jack Heinemann , Tammy Steeves and Anthony Poole

Lab Coordinator

Maggie Tisch

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Final Exam 30%
Lab Assignment 20%
Lab Assignment 20%
Mid Course Test 01 May 2010 30%

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Avise, John C; Phylogeography : the history and formation of species ; Harvard University Press, 2000.

Frankham, Richard , Briscoe, David A., Ballou, J. D; Introduction to conservation genetics ; Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Watson, James D; Molecular biology of the gene ; 6th ed; Pearson/Benjamin Cummings ;, 2008.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,299.00

International fee $6,000.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Biological Sciences .

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