NRSCS34

We are all born with one. We all share one. We have a three-billion character book stuffed into each of our one quadrillion cells, so we should probably read it. In this course students spend two weeks on Mount Desert Island studying how the human genome was first sequenced, how individual genomes are now sequenced all the time, how we do it, how we map the reads, compare mutations, quantify how our genes are read, how seminal events in our lives trigger them to turn on, and how others are stored away when they are not. Prerequisite(s): CHEM 217 and BIO 204 or 242.