Ch 496 Synthetic Biology

Advanced seminar-style class surveying the applied interdisciplinary field of synthetic biology. Topics on engineering and design of new microbial cells include: minimal gene sets, large scale genome assembly, manipulation of metabolic pathways, and alteration of the genetic code. Required preparation: Organic Chemistry AND either Biochemistry or Molecular Biology. Co-requisite: Ch 492 or Bi 334 (for students who completed Ch 491 but neither Ch 350 nor Bi 334).