Gene Technology PBIO 4500/6500 -- Fall Semester 2007
	Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12:30 AM to 1:45 PM Room 1501 Plant Sciences Building
	Open to undergraduates as a Biology elective.

Learn about recombinant DNA, genome projects, genetic engineering, and biotechnology.

The topics covered in this course emphasize the experimental techniques of gene technology (recombinant DNA), together with some concepts in molecular biology, and examples of these methods. These will include: structure and synthesis of nucleic acids and proteins; gene regulation; cDNA and genomic cloning; a variety of host-vector systems; polymerase chain reaction; molecular markers and genetic mapping; gene isolation strategies; in vitro mutagenesis and reverse genetics; genomics; stem cell research and cloning; and selected examples of these methods.

Instructors (Fall Semester 2007):

Maor Bar-Peled, CCRC Complex, 315 Riverbend Road, phone: 2-4496, e-mail: peled@ccrc.uga.edu

Zheng-Hua Ye, 4520 Plant Sciences, phone: 2-1832, e-mail: zhye@plantbio.uga.edu

Dr. Bar-Peled and Dr. Ye are available and the best way to coordinate meetings is by direct email

Teaching Assistant (Fall Semester 2007):

Jianli Zhou, 4516 Plant Sciences, phone: 2-5622, e-mail: jzhou@plantbio.uga.edu

Office hours by appointment

Other 4500/6500 Pages:

• Course Syllabus

• Lecture notes

• Web Papers for graduate students enrolled in 6500 (Updated)

• TEAM Research Projects for graduate and undergraduate students (Updated)

Announcements:

Links of Interest

• Restriction Enzyme Database
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
• Human Genome Project
• Mendelian Inheritance in Man Database
• Genefisher PCR Primer design
• ORF Finder
• ABIM on line analysis tool (New)

• Team Research Project -- Biofuel (New)