Ch 596 Synthetic Biology
Advanced seminar-style class surveying the applied interdisciplinary field of synthetic biology. Topics on engineering and design of new microbial cells include: minimal gene sets, large scale genome assembly, manipulation of metabolic pathways, and alteration of the genetic code. Required preparation: Organic Chemistry AND either Biochemistry or Molecular Biology. Co-requisite:
Ch 492 or
Bi 334 (for students who completed
Ch 491 but neither
Ch 350 nor
Bi 334).