Bio 395a - Advanced Genetics
Instructor: Susanne Kohalmi
Office: Rm 319 WSC
Hours: sign-up sheet or set up appointment by
E-mail: skohalmi@uwo.ca
IMPORTANT DATES
Final exam: time and location will be announced
Midterm exam: time and location will be announced
MARKING SCHEME
Final exam: 55%
Midterm exam: 35%
Tutorial assignments: 10%
Permission from the Dean's office is required for special exams.
COURSE OUTLINE
Note: This course has no assigned textbook. Required reading material will be announced during lectures and, if possible, will be placed on reserve in the library or online links will be provided.
The lecture will introduce you to major concepts and questions in genetics. Specific emphasis will be placed on linking genetic questions to the type of approaches which are typically used to solve them. We will start with introductory lectures showing the principles, advantages and disadvantage of major techniques. We will be looking at the complexity of genetic questions in relationship to genetic variation and the impact of environmental factors on genetic analyses. And we will use examples such as the generation and analysis of "knockouts" to see how geneticists ask questions, illustrate the many ways they have developed to answer them and discuss why we need more then one way to answer questions.
The tutorials will assist by analyzing specific genetic questions and by introducing you to reading of primary literature articles. Assignments will be handed out in tutorials and are due the following week unless specified otherwise.
Course web site
The course web site is on web ct – available only to students registered in the course
