| Week | Date | Day | Topics | Suggested Reading | Notes | |
| Week 1 |
9/2 | Tues | Overview: From organism to cell to genome | Chapter 1 (part I) and 9 |
Lecture slides |
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| 9/4 | Thur | The tree of life | Chapter 1 (part II) |
Lecture slides Pace paper |
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| Week 2 |
9/9 | Tues |
Cell chemistry Homework 1 Paper reading 1 (paper link) |
Chapter 2 (part I) |
Lecture slides |
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| 9/11 | Thur | Proteins: sequence, and structure | Chapter 3 |
Lecture slides |
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| Week 3 |
9/16 | Tues | Protein function | Chapter 3 |
Lecture slides |
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| 9/18 | Thur | Metabolism and regulation | Chapter 2 (part II and III) |
Lecture slides |
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| Week 4 |
9/23 | Tues | Working with proteins (purification & characterization) Homework 2 Paper reading 2 (paper link) |
Chapter 8 |
Lecture slides |
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| 9/25 | Thur | Basics of genetics | Chapter 4 |
Lecture slides |
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| Week 5 |
9/30 | Tues | DNA, chromosomes and genomes | Chapter 4 |
Lecture slides Paper of Bacterial Nucleoid Organization |
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| 10/2 | Thur | DNA replication | Chapter 5 |
Lecture slides |
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| Week 6 |
10/7 | Tues | DNA repair and recombination
Homework 3 Paper reading 3 (paper link) |
Chapter 5 (part 5) |
Lecture slides |
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| 10/9 | Thur | Transcription (DNA to RNA) and RNA processing | Chapter 6 |
Lecture slides |
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| Week 7 |
10/14 | Tues | Translation (RNA to protein) | Chapter 6 |
Lecture slides |
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| 10/16 | Thur | Translation (II) | Chapter 6 | |||
| Week 8 |
10/21 | Tues | Gene control (I) Homework 4 Paper reading 4 (paper link) |
Chapter 7 |
Lecture slides |
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| 10/23 | Thur | Gene control (II) | Chapter 7 | |||
| Week 9 |
10/28 | Tues | Working with DNA (PCR, sequencing, cloning) | Chapter 8 |
Lecture slides |
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| 10/30 | Thur | Working with DNA (gene expression and function) | Chapter 8 | |||
| Week 10 |
11/4 | Tues | MIDTERM | |||
| 11/6 | Thur | Topic 1: Genome projects |
Lecture slides |
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| Week 11 |
11/11 | Tues | Membrane structure Homework 5 Paper reading 5 (paper link) |
Chapter 10 & 11 |
Lecture slides |
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| 11/13 | Thur | Intracellular compartments and protein sorting (I) | Chapter 12 |
Lecture slides |
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| Week 12 |
11/18 | Tues | Intracellular compartments and protein sorting (II) | |||
| 11/20 | Thur | Cell communication and signaling pathways | Chapter 15 |
Lecture slides |
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| Week 13 |
11/25 | Tues | No lecture | |||
| 11/27 | Thur | Thanksgiving | ||||
| Week 14 |
12/2 | Tues | The cell cycle & apoptosis Paper reading 6 (paper link; PDF file) A summary of the paper is required. Due in a week |
Chapter 17 & 18 |
Lecture slides |
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| 12/4 | Thur | The development of multicellular organisms | Chapter 22 & 23 |
Lecture slides |
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| Week 15 |
12/9 | Tues | Cancer | Chapter 20 |
Lecture slides |
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| 12/11 | Thur | Pathogens and the immune system | Chapter 24 & 25 |
Lecture slides |
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| Week 16 |
12/16 | Tues | FINAL |