Bio 5488 Spring 2009 Course Schedule

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Monday and Wednesday Lectures, 10:00 – 11:30, Fifth floor classroom, Rm 5206, 4444 Forest Park Blvd.
Friday Lab Sections, 10:00-11:30 and 12:00-1:30, Center for Computational Biology, Rm 109, 700 S. Euclid.

Date	Day	Lecture/Lab	Lecturer	Notes (if available)	Readings and Assignments
Jan. 12	Mon	Course Introduction	Cohen	Introduction
Jan. 14	Wed	Mapping and Sequencing	Mitra	Mapping and Sequencing	Mardis Ley et al Turner et al Poisson Distribution
Jan. 16	Fri	LAB: Intro to Unix/Perl			Assignment 1 Answer A01
Jan. 19	Mon	No Class, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan. 21	Wed	Sequence Similarity Searches	Cohen	Sequence Similarity Searching	Matrix Primer
Jan. 23	Fri	LAB: Blast			Regular Expression Intro Array Intro Assignment 2 Answer A02
Jan. 26	Mon	Microarray I	Cohen	Microarray I	Li and Wong
Jan. 38	Wed	Microarray II	Cohen	Microarray II	Kruglyak Compendium
Jan. 30	Fri	LAB: Unsupervised Clustering			Assignment 3 Answer A03
Feb. 2	Mon	Microarray III	Cohen	Microarray III	Stormo Weight Matrix Primer
Feb. 4	Wed	Microarray IV	Cohen	Microarray IV	Golub
Feb. 6	Fri	LAB: Supervised Clustering			Assignment 4 Answer A04
Feb. 9	Mon	Proteomics I	Mitra	ProteomicsI	Gygi
Feb. 11	Wed	Proteomics II	Mitra	ProteomicsII	Sabatini
Feb 13	Fri	LAB: Peptide fragmentation/identification			Assignment 5Answer A05
Feb. 16	Mon	Population Genetics I	Mitra	Population Genetics I
Feb. 18	Wed	Population Genetics II	Mitra	Population Genetics II
Feb. 20	Fri	LAB: Wright-Fisher Model			Assignment 6 Answer A06
Feb. 23	Mon	Population Genetics III	Mitra	Population Genetics III	Eddy
Feb. 25	Wed	Population Genetics IV	Mitra	Population Genetics IV
Feb 27	Fri	LAB: Chromosomal rearrangements in cancer			Assignment 7Answer A07
Mar. 2	Mon	CGH I	Cohen	CGHI
Mar. 4	Wed	CGH II	Cohen	CGHII
Mar. 6	Fri	MIDTERM EXAM	midterm_2008_answers	midterm_2009_answers
Mar. 9-13	Mon	SPRING BREAK
Mar. 16	Mon	Molecular Evolution I	Fay	FayI
Mar. 18	Wed	Molecular Evolution II	Fay	FayII
Mar. 20	Fri	LAB: Phylogenetic Trees			Assignment 8Answer A08
Mar. 23	Mon	SNPs and Molecular Haplotypes I	Saccone	SacconeI
Mar. 25	Wed	SNPs and Molecular Haplotypes II	Saccone	SacconeII
Mar. 27	Fri	LAB: Linkage Disequilibrium			Assignment 9AnswerA09
Mar. 30	Mon	Prokaryotic Comparative Genomics	Cohen	Microbial Genomics	Bacterial Rhodopsin Phylogenetic Footprinting
Apr. 1	Wed	Eukaryotic Comparative Genomics	Cohen	Euk Genomics	Binomial Tutorial
Apr. 3	Fri	LAB: cis-regulatory motif identification			Assignment 10
Apr. 6	Mon	Primate Comparative Genomics	Cohen	Primate Genomics	Man's Place in Nature Chimp White Papers Enard I Enard II
Apr. 8	Wed	Human Comparative Genomics	Cohen	Human Genomics	Jorde Garrigan
Apr. 10	Fri	LAB: TBA
Apr. 13	Mon	CDCV I	Mitra	CDCV	Lander Terwilleger
Apr. 15	Wed	CDCV II	Mitra		Botstein Sladek Cohen
Apr. 17	Fri	NO LAB
Apr. 20	Mon	NO CLASS
Apr. 22	Wed	NO CLASS
Apr. 24	Fri	NO LAB
Apr 27	Mon	FINAL EXAM	final_2008_answers	Final_2009_answers