DIMACS Summer School Tutorial: The Foundations of Molecular Genetics for Non-Biologists

August 26-30, 2002
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizer:

William Sofer, Rutgers University, Waksman Institute, sofer@waksman.rutgers.edu

Co-sponsored by DIMACS and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.

This is part of a two-part tutorial. For information about the complementary tutorial on Introduction to Epidemiological Studies, click here.

Organizer:

William Sofer, Rutgers University, Waksman Institute

THEME: The lectures will introduce the basics of molecular biology and genetics to those who have only been exposed to classical biology (or who have had no training in biology at all). Topics covered will include: polymers, DNA, RNA, proteins, transcription, translation, DNA replication, genetics, genetic engineering, the molecular biology of pathogenesis.

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