PLPA 6080 - [Genomics of Bacterium-Host Interactions]

(crosslisted)
(also BIOMI 6080)

Fall. (Weeks 2–5) 1 credit. S–U or letter grade option.

Prerequisite: BIOMI 2900 or equivalent or permission of instructor. Offered alternate even years; next offered 2012-2013.

A. Collmer, S. C. Winans, D. Schneider, and M. Lindeberg.

Introduction to genomic approaches, tools, and discoveries involving the study of bacterial interactions with plant and animal hosts. Topics include tools for annotating, visualizing, and aligning whole bacterial genomes, sequence similarity searches, protein family classification, and protein and RNA structure prediction, as well as concepts such as the pan-genome, horizontal gene transfer, and bacterial genome structure.