Genes

Syllabus

G14.3210 Fall 2005

Date

Seminar Topic

Readings

BLACK: Required book,
BLUE: Goodman, Heath, Lindee 2003,
RED: Downloadable PDF
1: Mon., September 12 Introduction and course mechanics Lindee, Goodman, Heath 2003. Introduction
2: Mon., September 19 Re-discovering Heredity Tagliaferro and Bloom 1999 ch. 1-8,
Marks 2005a,b, Watson and Crick 1953
Duster 2003, Paul 1995
4: Mon., September 26 Public Health Genetics Wailoo 2003, Neel 1949,
Livingstone 1958, Diamond 1989,
Holden 1981, Tapper 1997
5: Mon., October 3 Public Health Genetics cont...
Lindee 2005
    Mon., October 10 No class: Columbus Day
6: Mon., October 17 Biotech Breakthroughs
Rabinow, P. 1996, Tagliaferro and Bloom 1999: Part 4, ch. 13-16, 26,
O'Rourke 2003, Angell 2004,
Thacker 2004 Khan 2005
7: Mon., October 24 Lab Life
Paper 1 Due: Topics
Rapp 2003, Fujimura 2003,
Avise 2001, Shields et al 2005
8: Mon., October 31 Inventing the Genome
Keller, E.F. 2000, Kay 1998,
Nature eds 2001, Judson 2001,
Baltimore 2001, Butler 2001
10: Mon., November 7 Debating DNA
Note new HapMap references
Lewontin, R.C. 2000,  Coen 1999,
Lewontin 2003, Newman 2003
Gibbs 2005, Goldstein & Cavalleri 2005
11: Mon., November 14 Complex genetics
Course meeting at 133 West 17th St #C
Buzz 111 (Rayna Rapp) at 2:00
Caspi 2002, Turkheimer 2006,
Gluckman et al. 2005
12: Mon., November 21

Human Evolution and Race
Olsen 2003, Dennis 2003, Barsh 2003,
Disotell 2000, Stoneking 2001,
Soodyall 2003, Templeton 2003 Supplementary race and genomics readings:
Risch et al 2002, Rosenberg et al 2002,
Kittles and Weiss 2003, Serre and Paabo 2004,
14: Mon., November 28 Tailored Medicine: Race, Genomics, and Pharmas
Tagliaferro and Bloom 1999: 19, 20, 22, 23,
Kittles and Royal 2003, Holtzman 2004,
Sankar et al 2004, Lowy and Gaudilliere 2004, Kahn 2003
13: Mon., December 5 Forensic Genomics
Tagliaferro and Bloom 1999: chs. 17-18,
Kaestle 2003, Jobling and Gill 2004
11: Mon., December 12 Biotech Agriculture
Review Tagliaferro and Bloom 1999: Part 4, ch. 13-16, 26,
Franklin 2003, Heller and Escobar 2003,
Sharma 2003, Freese 2002
Stabinsky 2002, Woodworth 2003,
    Fri., December 16; Paper 2 Due: Topics  
 

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