PLBIO 6410 - Laboratory in Plant Molecular Biology

(crosslisted) BIOMG 6410

Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only (S/U grades with permission of instructor).

Prerequisite: BIOMG 2800 or PLBRG 2250 and PLBRG 3250; BIOMG 3300 or BIOMG 3330 or BIOMG 3350 or BIOMG 3310 or equivalent; or permission of instructor.

J. Hua.

Includes selected experiments on gene expression, biolistic transformation, confocal microscopy, laser capture microdissection, microarray analysis, genetic mapping and mutant analysis, transposon tagging, proteomics, and metabolite analysis.

Outcome 1: Become familiar with a set of methods for performing experiments with plant material in the laboratory and be able to follow and use experimental protocols

Outcome 2: Understand what information can be gained by a particular type of experimentation or data analysis as well as the limitations of the methods

Outcome 3: Be able to formulate testable hypotheses and select available experimental techniques or analytical methods in order to draw defensible and creative conclusions