BioloGy 3950 - FUndAmenTAls of GeneTiC BioTeChnoloGy


Dr. Steven M. Carr

Department of Biology
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's NL A1C 5S9, Canada
  e-mail: scarr@mun.ca


    Bio3950 Course Outline updated May 01, 2024
    Biol3950 Grading scheme updated April 26, 2024
      
     MATLAB software

    
MEGA X (Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis) software

Other web pages of interest:

      Genetic Research in the Carr lab
      Bio2900 - Principles of Systematics & Evolution    

      Bio4241 - Advanced Genetics 
      Bio4250 - Evolutionary Genetics
      Bio4270 - History of Biology                                      


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Biol3950 runs every morning and every afternoon from 22 April to 10 May 2024 (Spring Semester 2024)

Lectures:       MTuWThF     CSF 4320     0900 ~ 1000


Labs:              MTuWThF     CSF 4320     1400 ~ 1700

Office Hours: MTuWThF     CSF 4342     1000 ~ 1100

Lecture & Lab times are flexible, and will be adjusted to accommodate lab experiments.


Course lecture notes:
 
    Lecture Topic Lecture last Revised Lecture Date Lab Materials
  1   History of DNA & Biotechnology   21 Apr 2024   22 April 2024
2   Biochemistry of DNA  21 Apr 2024   23 April 2024
3   DNA Replication & Transcription 21 Apr 2024   24 April 2024
NCBI Primer    Design
4    The Genetic Code & DNA Variation 21 Apr 2024   25~26 April 2024
MEGA X
5     Molecular Basis of Mutation & Variation 01 May 2024   TBA

NCBI BLAST
6  
   Principles of Genetic Engineering          GMOs: Golden Rice
 
 
01 May 2024   
 
 
01 May 2024  
 
Restriction Mapper
7
   Biotechnology & Genomics  01 May 2024
 
  02 May 2024

8
Environmental DNA (eDNA)
01 May 2024
03 May 2024

DNA bioinformatics

BOLD
9

      CRISPR-cas9 biotechnology


06, 07 May 2024
06, 07, 08 May 2024

       Final Exam
 Questions
10 May 2024;
In Class, 0900-1030
TBA

Review:  Primer of Mendelian Genetics

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - sources for images



Site last modified
09 May 2024
This page was first published on 29 February 2024
 

 I acknowledge that the lands on which this work is presented are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and I acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi'kmaw, Innu, and Inuit of this province.

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Dedicated to Norman Borlaug (1914 - 2009), Geneticist, Nobel Peace Laureate 1970, & Friend of the People of the Earth
              & to Dave Wake (1936 - 2021), Evolutionary Biologist & teacher extraordinaire

 All text material © 2024 by Steven M. Carr