Academics

Biology Courses

FALL 2013

New Lab Course

BIO 365 Microbial Genomics Laboratory
This laboratory course, to be taken concurrently with Biol 335, Genomics, provides a hands-on, inquiry-based, laboratory experience for undergraduate science majors.  A bacterial model, Enterococcus, will be used to explore the diversity of the bacterium and some of its genes; and to test hypotheses about disease virulence and horizontal gene transfer in bacteria. Students will isolate metagenomic DNA and bacteria from the environment and learn basic microbiological methods (bacterial culture, aseptic technique, gram staining) and molecular biology methods (DNA purification /quantitation, PCR, gel electrophoresis, DNA sequencing). In the final portion of the course, students will use bioinformatics tools to analyze their data and submit a final research paper.
Wednesdays 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
McCormack Building, 1-114
Michael Shiaris

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