Tentative Lecture Schedule (Class room: Hurty Hall C in Fesler Hall)

 

6/4

Mon

8:30

10:30

11:30

13:30

Introduction, DNA and RNA structures (Lee)

DNA replication and growing E. coli for plasmid isolation (Lee)

Transcription (Lee)

Translation (Lee)

6/5

Tue

8:30

9:30

10:30

Genomic DNA isolation (Lee)

Plasmid DNA isolation (Konger)

Enzymes used in molecular biology (2 hours, Lee)

6/6

Wed

 

8:30

9:30

11:30

Enzymes used in molecular biology (Lee)

Promoters and operons (2 hours, Lee)

Total and Poly-A RNA isolation (Murrell)

6/7

Thr

 

8:30

9:30

10:30

11:30

Gel electrophoresis (Lee)

Cloning vectors (Lee)

Recover DNA from gels, Spin dialysis, DNA concentration determination (Lee)

Ligation, transformation, and screening of recombinant plasmids (Lee)

6/8

Fri

8:30

9:30

10:30

Cloning strategies (Lee)

E. coli genotypes (Lee)

DNA labeling and RNA probes (Lee)

Southern and Northern (Lee)

 

 

 

6/11

Mon

 

8:30

9:30

10:30

11:30

Probe design and microarrays (2 hrs, Lee)

Library (1 hr)

Restriction mapping (0.5 hr, Lee)

EMBL 3, EMBL4, Cosmid (0.5 hr, Lee)

6/12

Tue

8:30

10:00

YAC, BAC, PAC (0.5 hours, Lee)

PCR theory and applications (3.5 hours)

6/13

Wed

8:30

9:30

11:30

PCR theory and applications (2 hr, Lee)

DNA sequencing principle (1 hr, Lee)

Biology of M13 and phagemid (Lee)

6/14

Thr

8:30

9:30

10:30

Revolution of Sanger sequencing (Lee)

In vivo excision of pBluescript from lambda ZAP (0.5 Lee)

Second generation sequencing techniques (2.5 hours, Lee)

6/15

Fri

8:30

9:30

10:30

Expression of foreign genes in E. coli (Lee)

Expression of foreign genes in eukaryotic expression systems (Lee)

Phage display, Tet-on/Tet-off and Gateway expression systems (2 hrs, Lee)

 

 

 

6/18

Mon

 

8:30

9:30

10:30

11:30

Mutagenesis and homologous recombination (Lee)

Small and long non-coding RNA and RNA interference (Lee)

Proteomics (Wang)

Fluorescent in situ hybridization

6/19

Tue

8:30

10:30

Viral vectors (2 hours, Lee)

Bioinformatics and application of next generation DNA sequencing (2 hours, Liu)

6/20

Wed

 

 

8:30

9:30

10:30

11:30

Molecular genetics (Dlouhy)

Clinical applications of gene transfer technologies (Cornetta)

Transgenic animals and gene knockouts (Field)

Single nucleotide polymorphism (Lee)

6/21

Thr

8:30

9:30

Single nucleotide polymorphism (Lee)

Epigenetics (3 hours, Lee)

 

 

 

Tentative Lab Schedule

 

 

June 4

Mon

June 5

Tue

June 6

Wed

June 7

Thr

June 8

Fri

Plasmid

DNA

1 ml-10 ml

10 ml-1 liter

amplify (p8)

Steps 2-4

Lyse cells

Isolate DNA

(p8-9)

Steps 5-18

CsCl spin (p9-10)

Steps 19-28

Purify band

Dialyze (p10-11)

Steps 29-37

Determine conc.

Run gel (p11)

Steps 38-40

Cloning

 

 

Cut pMDM2 & vectors (p16)

Electrophoresis (p17)

Extract insert (p17-19)

Ligate (p22-23)

Transform

(p23-25)

Genomic DNA

Southern

Lyse cells

Prot. K (p36)

Steps 1-4

Extract DNA (p36-37)

Steps 5-12

Purify & cut DNA (p37)

Steps 13-16

Run gel (p37)

Steps 17-18

Process gel & transfer (p38)

Northern

 

 

 

Isolate RNA

(p45)

Steps 1-12

Purify RNA (p45)

Steps 13-17

 

 

June 11

Mon

June 12

Tue

June 13

Wed

June 14

Thr

June 15

Fri

Cloning

pTZ-pick, grow (p25)

pACYC-rep. plate (p26)

pBR-rep. plate (p28)

Screen (pTZ)

Grow (pACYC)

Colony hyb. (pBR)

Map pTZ recom. (p26)

Screen pACYC recomb (p26)

 

Hyb. (pBR; 29)

Map pACYC recom. (p27)

 

Wash Filters (pBR; p29)

 

 

Develop film

Southern

Bake membrane (p38)

Prehyb. (p40)

Hyb. (p40)

Wash, ARG (p40)

Develop film

Northern

Run gel (p47)

Transfer (p48)

Bake

Prehyb.

Make probe

hyb.

Wash; ARG

Develop film

PCR/TOPO Cloning

 

 

Isolate template

(p52-54)

PCR

(p54-55)

Ligate

Transform (p59-60)

PCR/RFLP

 

 

 

 

Spin dialyze

DdeI digestion

Run gel (p58)

PCR/Dot-blot

 

 

 

 

Denature

Dot-blot (p55-57)

Bake membrane

 

 

June 18

Mon

June 19

Tue

June 20

Wed

June 21

Thr

PCR/Dot-blot

Prehyb. (p57)

Hyb. (p57)

Wash & ARG (p57)

Read results

Real-time PCR

 

Induce MIP-2, total RNA isolation, reverse transcription (p63-64)

PCR setup, Temp. cycling (p64-65)

Interpretation (p66)

 

Luciferase Reporter Assay

Transfection (p68)

Induction (p68)

Lyse cells; determine luciferase activity (68-69)