COEN 6211 LECTURE 1 2021

COEN 6211 LECTURE 1 2021 Synthetic Biology Course outline Luc Varin, Ph.D (Biology) Lectures: W 14:45 – 17:30 Office Hours: Tue and Thu 13:00 – 16:00 E-mail: • Office hours: I expect students to contact me by E-mail to schedule a ZOOM session during my office hours to ask their questions related to the course material or their assignments. Course outline • Text book: This course has no text book. All the slides used in the lectures will be made available to you, on-line. Also, all of the research papers used for the latter part of the course will be available to you in PDF format. You are expected to attend every lecture, participate in it, and take your own notes. Synthetic biology Lecture 1 Course outline • Grading 1. Qualifying Exam Withdraw (0)/Pass (10) marks 2. Assignments (2) 20 marks 3. Midterm Exam 15 marks 3. Team Project 25 marks 5. Final Exam 30 marks Lecture outline Introduction to Molecular Biology • DNA structure • Gene structure • Transcription and translation • DNA replication • Gene regulation • Molecular cloning tools Flow of genetic information DNA RNA Transcription by RNA polymerase Translation by ribosomes PROTEIN Chromosome structure 7 DNA structure DNA structure DNA structure Orientation of the strands?