Advanced Human Genetics 236A - Winter 2008

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

Gonda 6303 (6th 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 7, 9, 11	Inheritance & Mutation	Daniel Cohn
January 14, 16, 18	Genomics	Karen Reue
January 23, 25	Gene Mapping	Paivi Pajukanta
Jan 28, 30, Feb 1	Disease Gene Identification	Paivi Pajukanta
February 4, 6, 8	Transcriptomics	Barry Merriman
February 11, 13, 15	Proteomics	Esteban Dell'Angelica
February 20, 22	Epigenetics	Guoping Fan
Feb 25, 27, 29	Functional Genomics I	Stephen Young
March 3, 5, 7	Functional Genomics II	Esteban Dell'Angelica
March 10, 12, 14	Neurogenetics	Daniel Geschwind

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:

Dan Cohn	Dan.Cohn@cshs.org
Guoping Fan	gfan@mednet.ucla.edu
Daniel Geschwind	dhg@ucla.edu
Barry Merriman	barrym@ucla.edu
Karen Reue	reuek@ucla.edu
Stephen Young	sgyoung@mednet.ucla.edu