1.Genetics: The Study of Biological Information
2.Mendel’s Principles of Heredity
3.Extensions to Mendel’s Laws
4.The Chromosome Theory of Inheritance
5.Linkage, Recombination, and the Mapping of Genes on
Chromosomes
6.DNA Structure, Replication, and Recombination
7.Anatomy and Function of a Gene: Dissection Through Mutation
8.Gene Expression: The Flow of Information from DNA to RNA to
Protein
9. Digital Analysis of Genomes
10. Analyzing Genomic Variation
11.The Eukaryotic Chromosome
12.Chromosomal Rearrangements and Changes in Chromosome Number
13.Bacterial Genetics
14.Organellar Inheritance
15.Gene Regulation in Prokaryotes
16.Gene Regulation in Eukaryotes
17.Manipulating the Genomes of Eukaryotes
18.The Genetic Analysis of Development
19.The Genetics of Cancer
20.Variation and Selection in Populations
21.Genetics of Complex Traits
Dr. Leland Hartwell is President and Director of Seattle’s Fred
Hutchinson CancerResearch Center and Professor of Genome Sciences
at the University of Washington.Dr. Hartwell’s primary research
contributions were in identifying genes that controlcell division
in yeast, including those necessary for the division process as
well asthose necessary for the fi delity of genome reproduction.
Subsequently, many of thesesame genes have been found to control
cell division in humans and oft en to be thesite of alteration in
cancer cells.Dr. Hartwell is a member of the National Academy of
Sciences and has receivedthe Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research
Award, the Gairdner FoundationInternational Award, the Genetics
Society Medal, and the 2001 Nobel Prize inPhysiology or Medicine.
Dr. Michael Goldberg is a professor at Cornell University, where he
teaches introductorygenetics and human genetics. He was an
undergraduate at Yale Universityand received his Ph.D. in
biochemistry from Stanford University. Dr. Goldberg
performedpostdoctoral research at the Biozentrum of the University
of Basel (Switzerland)and at Harvard University, and he received an
NIH Fogarty Senior InternationalFellowship for study at Imperial
College (England) and fellowships from theFondazione Cenci
Bolognetti for sabbatical work at the University of Rome
(Italy).His current research uses the tools of Drosophila genetics
and the biochemical analysisof frog egg cell extracts to
investigate the mechanisms that ensure proper cellcycle progression
and chromosome segregation during mitosis and meiosis. Dr. Janice
Fischer is a Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, where
she is
an award-winning teacher of genetics and Director of the Biology
Instructional Office.
She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from
Harvard
University, and did postdoctoral research at The University of
California at Berkeley
and The Whitehead Institute at MIT. In her current research, Dr.
Fischer uses
Drosophila to examine the roles of ubiquitin and endocytosis in
cell signaling during
development. Dr. Hood received an MD from the Johns Hopkins Medical
Schooland a PhD in Biochemistry from the California Institute of
Technology. His research interests include immunology, development
and the development of biological instrumentation (e.g. the protein
sequenator and the automated fluorescent DNA sequencer). His
research played a key role in unraveling the mysteries of anitbody
diversity. Dr. Hood has taught molecular evolution, immunology,
molecular biology and biochemistry. he is currently the Chairman
(and founder) of the cross-disciplinary Department of Molecular
Biotechnology at the University of Washington. Dr. Hood has
received a variety of awards including the Albert Lasker Award for
Medical Research (1987), Dickson Price (1987), Cefas Award for
Biochemistry (1989), and the Distinguished Service Award from the
national Association of Teachers (1998). He is deeply involved in
K-12 science educatiohn. His hobbies include running, mountain
climbing, and reading. Dr. Charles Aquadro (Chip) is Professor of
Population Genetics, the Charles A.
Alexander Professor of Biological Sciences, and Director of the
Center for
Comparative and Population Genomics at Cornell University. He
obtained his
Ph.D. in genetics from the University of Georgia, was a postdoc at
the National
Institute for Environmental Health Sciences/NIH, and joined the
faculty at Cornell
University in 1985 where he is now a professor. He has served as
President of the
Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, is an elected Fellow of
the AAAS, is a
member of the Scientific Advisory Board for National Geographic
Society’s
Genographic Project, was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board
for the
WGBH/NOVA TV series “Evolution,” and has been a visiting scholar at
Cambridge
University (England, 1993) and Harvard University (2007). His
research and teaching
focuses on molecular population genetics, molecular evolution, and
comparative
genomics. While Drosophila is his primary research system, recent
work has also
involved yeast, humans, and plants. At Cornell, he teaches a
university-wide course
to nonmajors on personal genomics and medicine, and a major’s
course in population
genetics.
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