Advanced Human Genetics 236A - Winter 2009

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9:00AM to 9:50AM

Gonda 5303 (5th floor conference room)

The course will consist of lecture/discussion sessions. Each week will be entirely devoted to a specific subject under the guidance of a single faculty who is an expert in the field.

Each week the students will read one (1) original research article, to be discussed in class by the students during the Friday's session (no journal club format, just informal discussion involving the faculty and all students). In addition, whenever it is possible some (optional) background reading will be provided before the first session of each week, to help the student with the basic information relevant to the subject.

There will be no final examination or paper. Students will be evaluated based on (a) their attendance and participation in class and (b) homework assignments consisting of 2 or 3 questions per week. Students must submit the answers, either in paper or by email, at any time until the following Friday at noon (no exceptions on the deadline). Equal weight on (a) and (b).

Date	Subject	Instructor
January 5, 7, 9	Inheritance & Mutation	Deborah Krakow
January 12, 14, 16	Transcriptomics	Barry Merriman
January 21, 23	Gene Mapping	Paivi Pajukanta
January 26, 28, 30	Disease Gene Identification	Paivi Pajukanta
February 2, 4, 6	Genomics	Karen Reue
February 9, 11, 13	Gene-Trap Technology	Stephen Young
February 18, 20	Epigenomics	Guoping Fan
February 23, 25, 27	Neurogenetics	Daniel Geschwind
March 2, 4, 6	Proteomics	Esteban Dell'Angelica
March 9, 11, 13	Functional Genomics	Esteban Dell'Angelica

Course Directors:

Esteban Dell'Angelica	Gonda 6357B	T: 206-3749	edellangelica@mednet.ucla.edu
Paivi Pajukanta	Gonda 6335B	T: 267-2011	ppajukanta@mednet.ucla.edu

Lecturers:

Guoping Fan	gfan@mednet.ucla.edu
Daniel Geschwind	dhg@ucla.edu
Deborah Krakow	deborah.krakow@cshs.org
Barry Merriman	barrym@ucla.edu
Karen Reue	reuek@ucla.edu
Stephen Young	sgyoung@mednet.ucla.edu