Instructor

Jeff Wall

Institute for Human Genetics

513 Parnassus Ave., S965

San Francisco, CA 94143

Phone: 415-476-4063

Email: wallj@humgen.ucsf.edu

Meeting time and Place

Dates/Times: Tuesday and Thursday, 2:30-4pm.

Location: S-980 (except on 1/22 and 2/26, when class will be held in HSW-920)  

Overview

This course will concentrate on understanding and interpreting patterns of DNA sequence variation both within species (population genetics) and between species (molecular evolution), with a focus on human evolutionary genetics.  With recent advances in molecular sequencing (and genotyping) technology, there is now a flood of genetic polymorphism data available.  Making sense of large-scale data sets is likely to be a key challenge for many years to come.

The course will have a mixture of lectures as well as round-table discussions of recent papers from the literature.  Additional lecture notes and review articles will also be provided, as well as suggestions for further reading.  Students will be graded based on occasional problem sets and class participation.

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of genetics is required.  Familiarity with calculus and statistics is preferable.

Downloadable course schedule

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Course Evaluations Forms : General Course Evaluation / Instructor Evaluation Form

*Due:   March 13, 2008 . Submission of completed evaluation forms is a course requirement.  

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