J.L.
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Approximately every other year, I teach
a course in my own research area. My former co-teacher
Dr. William Atchley is
to blame for the ugly title of the course (Computational
Molecular Evolution, GN/ST756). The course is actually much better
than its name. The focus is on evolutionary inference from DNA
and protein sequences representing different species. We
also briefly discuss material related to the coalescent process of
population genetics.
I also teach Bioinformatics II
(ST590C), a graduate level course that covers methods for analyzing
data relevant to molecular biology. The goal of this course is to
introduce statistical techniques that are important for computational
molecular biology. The emphasis is on DNA and protein sequence
analysis but we also cover some material on protein tertiary structure
prediction.
In recent years, Dr. Marianne Niedzlek-Feaver and I co-designed and have been co-teaching a course named Evolutionary Medicine. It is now known as Bio 432.
J.L.
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