Andrew Pierce -- Powerpoint Lectures

Online Molecular Genetics Lectures

This site has powerpoint files of the various lectures given by Andrew Pierce for students at the University of Kentucky. They were created on a Macintosh. I hope, but do not guarantee, that they work on other systems.

IBS 605: Experimental Genetics (Fall 2007)

1) Meiosis (two lectures) [PDF Handout Version]

MI 720: Microbial Structure and Function (Fall 2007)

1) Bacterial Replication
2) Bacterial Recombination

MI 615: Illustrated Topics in Advanced Molecular Genetics (Spring 2007)

0) preamble
1) Introduction, Genomic Low Copy Repeats
2) Asexual Organisms
3) Issues in Sexual Reproductive Fitness
4) Genomic Rescue i) Biochemistry & ii) Genetics (two lectures)
5) Genomic Rescue iii) Ramifications
6) Protein Splicing i) inteins and exteins
7) Protein Splicing ii) 'CHYSEL'

MI/MED/PHA 616: Biology and Therapy of Cancer (Spring 2007)

1) Translocations
2) Methylation

TOX 680: Molecular Mechanisms in Toxicology (Spring 2007)

1) Recombination Repair

TOX 780: (Fall 2004)

1) Single and Double-strand Break Repair i) base excision and end-joining
2) Single and Double-strand Break Repair ii) homologous recombination

Legal stuff:

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