Genome Evolution Course

Department of Biology

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.

Lecturer: Itai Yanai

Teaching Assistant: Michal Levin

Course number: 136031

Winter Semester, 2009

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

Announcements:

Mo’ed Bet of the Exam takes place on March 16^th at 16:30 in Ullman 503.

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. The Tree of Life and 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. Evolution of Biological Networks
12. Evolution of Genome Regulation

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Itai Yanai, yanai@technion.ac.il