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Required Courses (17 CR)
- GENE 603 Genetics (3 CR)
- GENE 608 Critical Analysis of Genetic Literature (2 CR)
- Computational genetics (3 CR)**
- **BIOL 651 Bioinformatics
- **BIOL 683 Experimental Design in Biology
- STAT 604 Special Problems in Statistics Computations and Analysis
- **STAT 646 Statistical Bioinformatics
- STAT 657 Advanced Programming using SAS
- **GENE 657 Command Line Skills
- GENE 681 Seminar (3 CR)
- GENE 682 Seminar Presentation (1 CR)
- GENE 685 Research Rotations (2 CR)
- GENE 697 Teaching Genetics Labs (2 CR)
- Research ethics (1 CR) options:
- BICH 658 Application of Scientific Values in Daily Research Practice
Elective Courses (9 CR, spread across at least three competency areas*)
In addition, when signing for a crosslisted course (one listed as GENE/XXXX) you should enroll in the GENE section of the course.
Molecular Genetics
- BICH 613 Mechanisms of Cell Division
- BICH 631 Biochemical Genetics
- BICH 656 RNA Biology
- BIOL 609 Molecular Tools Biology
- BIOL 635 Plant Molecular Biology
- ENTO 641 Engineering Vector Populations
- GENE 648/ECCB 620 Molecular Evolution
- GENE 673/BICH 673 Gene Expression
- MSCI 612 Current Topics in Cell Signaling
- SCSC 647 Genome Editing Crop Plants
- VIBS 611 Tumor Cell Bio and Carcinogenesis
- VTPP 676 Genetics & Molecular Toxicology
Quantitative and Population Genetics
- ANSC 628 Animal Breeding
- ECCB 613 Dynamics of Populations (This course was previously WFSC 624)
- ECCB 689: Evolution and Function of New Genes
- EEBL 605 Population & Quantitative Genetics
- EEBL 606 Phylogenetics & Comparative Biology
- ESSM 689 Quantitative Methods in Ecology, Evolution and Biogeography
- GENE 606/ECCB 606 Quantitative Phylogenetics
- GENE 612 Population Genetics
- GENE 613/ANSC 613 Quantitative Genetics I
- GENE 633/WFSC 633 Conservation Genetics
- GENE 638/ANSC 638 Prediction of Genetic Merit
- GENE 642/ANSC 642 Advanced Quantitative Genetics
- GENE 643/SCSC 643 Molecular Quantitative Genetics in Plant Breeding
- SCSC 641 Plant Breeding
- SCSC 642 Plant Breeding II
Statistics and Bioinformatics
- BICH 661 Advance Genome Annotation Ontology
- BIOL 647 Digital Biology
- **BIOL 651 Bioinformatics
- **BIOL 683 Experimental Design Biology
- **GENE 656 Metagenomics
- **GENE 657 Command Line Skills
- **GENE 658 Differential Gene Expression
- **GENE 659 Genome Assembly
- **GENE 689 Advanced Bioinformatics
- **GENE 689 Shotgun Metagenomics Data Analysis
- **GENE 689 Single-Cell RNA-seq Data Analysis in R
- **MPHY 624 Biostatistics
- SCSC 660 Experimental Designs in Agriculture
- STAT 604 Special Problems in Statistics Computations and Analysis
- **STAT 646 Statistical Bioinformatics
- **STAT 651 Statistics in Research I
- **STAT 652 Statistics in Research II
- STAT 657 Advanced Programming using SAS
- VIBS 689: Single Cell Data Analysis via Machine Learning
- WFSC 670 Excel Biometry
Organismal Genetics
- ANSC 624 Mammalian Developmental Genetics
- BICH 675 Plant Biochemistry & Genomics
- BIOL 606 Microbial Genetics
- BIOL 610 Evolution
- BIOL 611 Developmental Genetics
- ENTO 628 Arthropod Genomics & Gene Expression
- GENE 677 Genes and Diseases
- MPIM 601 Microbial Pathogenesis of Huma
- MPIM 663 Molecular Biology of Animal Viruses
- MSCI 603 Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer Metastasis
- MSCI 604 Foundations of Biotechnology
- MSCI 630 Pathogenesis of Human Disease
- MSCI 635 Mammalian Immunobiology
- VTPB 613 Mammalian Genomics & Bioinformatics
Genomics
- ANTH 672 Ancient Genetics
- BICH 661 Genome Annotation with Ontologies
- BIOL650/BICH 650 Genomics
- EEBL 607 Evolutionary Genomics
- GENE 620 Cytogenetics
- GENE 629/ANSC 629/POSC 629 Applied Animal Genomics
- GENE 630/VIBS 630/GENE 630 Comparative Genomics
- GENE 639/ANSC 639 Bacterial Genomics
- GENE 654/SCSC 654/MEPS 654 Analysis of Complex Genomes
- GENE 655/SCSC 655/MEPS 655 Analysis of Complex Genomes-Lab
- VTPP 638 Analysis of Genomics Signals
** Courses in italics are part of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Certificate (CERT-BICB)
Courses with the number 689 are ‘special topics’. Many of these are held regularly but have not yet received a course number.