Genome Evolution Course

Department of Biology

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Lecturer: Itai Yanai

Teaching Assistant: Michal Levin

Course number: 136031

Spring Semester, 2011

• Time and place
• General Information
• Course syllabus
• Assignments
• Grading
• Suggested Books

Announcements:

· We moved to the new building (Floor 4, right wing (when coming from the bridge), rooms 4-4 (Itai) and 4-1 (Michal)).

· The course will be given in English.

· The course takes place Tuesdays 10:30-12:30 in the Biology Miklat, starting March 8^th.

· Previous version of the lectures can be found here.

· Final Grades

Course Material

1. Introduction to Evolution and The Human Genome
2. Human Variation
3. Molecular Clocks
4. The Neutral Mutation Theory of Molecular Evolution
5. Phylogenetics
6. Evolution by Genome Duplication
7. Evolution by Gene Duplication
8. Evolution of Protein Domains
9. Evolution by Horizontal Transfer
10. Evolution of Selfishness
11. Guest lecture by Roy Kishony
12. Evolution of Genome Regulation

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Itai Yanai, yanai@technion.ac.il