GEN3062 Schedule 2025
GEN3062 Schedule - 2025
| Week | Lectures | Laboratory Sessions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Introduction and population genetics | CMS | Introduction to unit. Revision of Week 1 lecture content | TC/CMS |
| 2 | Genetic variation in quantitative traits | CMS | |||
2 | 3 | Responses to environmental change: phenotypic plasticity I | CMS | Climatic adaptation – Cold Tolerance data collection Problem session 1 Revision of Week 2 lecture content | CMS |
| 4 | Responses to environmental change: phenotypic plasticity II | CMS | |||
3 | 5 | Studying natural selection I | CMS | Climatic adaptation – DNA extraction Problem session 2 Revision of Week 3 lecture content | CMS |
| 6 | Studying natural selection II | CMS | |||
4 | 7 | Limits to adaptation I | CMS | Climatic adaptation – Cold Tolerance data analysis and Hsr-omega gels Revision of Week 4 lecture content | CMS |
| 8 | Limits to adaptation II | CMS | |||
5 | 9 | Genetics and conservation I | CMS | Climatic adaptation - Hsr omega data analysis and lab report information. Questions in preparation for In-Semester Test 1 Revision of Week 5 lecture content | CMS |
| 10 | Genetics and conservation II | CMS | |||
6 | 11 | Evolutionary rescue I | TC | In-Semester Test 1 - Weeks 1 - 5 content | CMS |
| 12 | Evolutionary rescue II | TC | |||
7 | 13 | Selfish genes, gene drives and Wolbachia | TC | Controlling dengue transmission with Wolbachia Problem Session 3 Revision of Week 6 and 7 lecture content | TC |
| 14 | Evolution by mutation and genetic drift | TC | |||
8 | 15 | The neutral theory of molecular evolution | TC | Revision of Week 8 lecture content and questions about the Lab Report | TC/CS |
| 16 | Interactions between natural selection and drift | TC | |||
9 | 17 | Genomic signals of natural selection | TC | Natural selection and genetic drift in protein evolution. Problem session 4 Revision of Week 9 lecture content | TC |
| 18 | Maintenance of genetic variations I | TC | |||
| Semester Break: Monday 29th September to Friday 3rd October | |||||
10 | 19 | Maintenance of genetic variations II | TC | Natural selection and genetic drift in protein evolution. Problem session 4 continued Revision of Week 10 lecture content | TC |
| 20 | Genetics of complex traits | TC | |||
11 | 21 | Genetics of Adaptation | TC | Questions in preparation for In-Semester Test 2 Revision of Week 11 lecture content | TC |
| 22 | Mating systems and evolutionary genetics | TC | |||
12 | No Lectures this week | In-Semester Test 2 - Weeks 6 - 11 content | TC | ||
All lectures will be pre recorded and available on Moodle Laboratory Sessions: Tuesday 10 am or 2 pm will be in the Genetics Teaching Laboratories Rm 331-332, 18 Innovation Walk for Weeks 1 - 6 and in the Green Lab Room 111, 25 Rainforest Walk in Weeks 7 - 12. . | |||||
Lecturers: TC - Dr Tim Connallon (coordinator) CMS - Prof Carla Sgro | |||||