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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - BSC5454
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- Date & Time Submitted: 2007-04-20
- Department: Biology
- College: AS
- Budget Account Number: 120901000
- Contact Person: KT Scott
- Phone: 45173
- Email: kscott@cas.usf.edu
- Prefix: BSC
- Number: 5454
- Full Title: Genomics
- Credit Hours: 4
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: Y
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Genomics
- Course Online?: -
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- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites: BSC 2011, CHM 2046, PCB 3063
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: We will be using genomic data available from multiple bioinformatics databases to answer an open-ended question fundamental to organismal evolution. The emphasis is to hone scientific inquiry skills in fledgeling researchers.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course: It is essential for students who intend to do cutting edge biological research to have an awareness of bioinformatics databases and phylogenetic analyses and the skill set to use them critically.
- 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 has been used as a biology and microbiology elective by undergraduates, as well as enrolling several graduate students from multiple departments--BMS, Biology, Marine Science. Previous iterations of this course as a Special Topics course has had an avid and engaged enrollment of at least 15 per year.
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? Yes, three times (Fall 2004, 5, and 6). The results from the 2004 iteration has been published in PLOS Biology, and we are currently collating the results from 2005 for submission to PNAS.
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) PhD in Biology with experience in genome-level analyses.
- Objectives: The objective of the course is to give upperclass undergraduate students and beginning graduate students the opportunity to generate a publication-quality discussion of a fundamental aspect of metabolism or organismal evolution (e.g., complete genome analyses; comparative genomic analyses of central carbon metabolism). In the process they will be introduced to a crucial toolset for contemporary biological analyses (bioinformatics database utilization; phylogenetic analyses), as well as to the thought processes necessary for conducting research in any discipline.
- Learning Outcomes: Bioinformatics database utilization (BLAST; NCBI; IMG; PFAM)
Gene alignment and phylogenetic analyses
Critical thinking skill development
Scientific inquiry development
Literature search development
These items will be assesed via multiple written assignments and a presentation to the class.
- Major Topics: Molecular evolution
Gene function prediction
BLAST searches
IMG utilization
Gene alignment
Phylogenetic analyses
Horizontal gene transfer
- Textbooks: The primary text is Jonathan Pevsner, "Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics", which will be supplemented by primary literature.
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- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.