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:
These lecture files are freely downloadable by anyone, however you should be aware that some of the material in these lectures is included under the "fair use" educational provision of US copyright law and the rights to this material are retained by the original rights holders.  Permission to use these lectures for non-commercial purposes is granted, under the provisions of the following license:
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License.

Otherwise this material is Copyright © 2007 Andrew J. Pierce