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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - PCB5066
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2007-04-20
- Department: Biology
- College: AS
- Budget Account Number: 120901000
- Contact Person: Jim Garey
- Phone: 8747103
- Email: garey@cas.usf.edu
- Prefix: PCB
- Number: 5066
- Full Title: Molecular Phylogenetics
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Molecular Phylogenetics
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: PCB 3063
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- Course Description: Provides a theoretical (lecture) and practical (computer lab) framework to allow students to carry out phylogenetic analysis using molecular data. Majors or nonmajors.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: This course fills a need in the Biology graduate program for students to learn theoretical knowledge and practical skills in phylogenetic analysis using DNA sequence information. This course has been taught for a number of years as a special topics course
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? This course supports the graduate program in Biology, and has included graduate students from Marine Sciences and Engineering. As the department moves toward Cell and Molecular Biology, there is increased demand for students to be able to understand and carry out phylogenetic analysis. In addition, this course is useful to more traditional organismal students in learning about phylogenetics.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, this has been taught for a number of years as BSC 5931 and other special topics course numbers using a variety of names (systematic biology, molecular evolution, molecular phylogenetics). One problem is that as a special topics course, it is difficul
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Ph.D. in biological sciences with training in molecular biology and phylogenetics.
- Objectives: To provide a theoretical and practical framework to allow students to carry out phylogenetic analysis using molecular data. The theoretical framework is provided by the lecture portion of the course, while the practical portion is provided by the computer lab portion of the course.
- Learning Outcomes: Outcomes are assessed by a written, in class midterm, computer lab exercises, and a final project that is presented in written forms and oral forms. In addtion to the instructors evaluations, students evaluate each other in the form of peer review of their papers and presentations.
- Major Topics: Theoretical portion: DNA structure,DNA alignment, tree making, assessment of tree making accuracy, gene evolution and genome evolution.
Practical portion (computer lab): Genbank retrieval, Handling large datasets, the use of alignment and phylogenetic software, presenting phylogenetic data.
- Textbooks: Evolution and Phylogeny by Nei and Kumar. Oxford Press 2000.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.