COURSE CONTENTS
1 Introduction to Bacterial and Yeast Genetics
2 Essentials of Bacterial Genetics
3 Bacterial genomes and genomics
4 The microbiome Transcriptomics
5 Regulation of gene expression
6 Bacterial diversity and evolution
7 Plasmids
8 Conjugation
Transduction
Generalized and Specialized
9 Viral attack and defense
10 Toxin-Antitoxin systems
11 Global Regulatory Networks
12 The Fundamentals of Inheritance and Mutant Isolation Mendelian inheritance/ mitosis and meiosis refresher Tetrad analysis
13 Mutant hunts and cloning genes
14 Bacterial Genome Engineering Bacterial Transposons – What are they?
15 Issues Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) Technological advances Controls and cautions