Molecular Biology

Catalog description

A research oriented lecture course in Molecular Biology. Topics to be covered include Biophysics of Macromolecules; Recombinant DNA and Biotechnology; Regulation of Transcription, including considerations of promoters, DNA Binding Proteins and Oncogenes; The Processing of RNA including capping, splicing, polyadenylation and editing, Translation including targeting, frame shifting, folding and post translational modifications; and Applications of Biochemical Genetics and Cell Biology. Resource material will be scholarly scientific publications. (For a state of arts, research oriented course, the specific topics to be considered will vary from one semester to the next in order to enable the most important and latest scientific discoveries to be covered).