FGEN 5307 Advanced Methods in Forensic/Molecular Genetics

4 SCH. This course is designed to provide students in-depth experience and expertise in performing DNA analysis techniques commonly used in forensic and molecular laboratories, as well as introducing future technologies. The targeted areas to be covered are real-time quantitative PCR, robotics, and detection and analyses of short tandem repeats (STR’s) and mitochondrial DNA sequence data. The course objective is to give the student the fundamental tools to understand the scientific basis, detailed biochemistry, and current analytical methods for each technique. The course will not only give the students hands-on experience, but will also train the student in data analysis, expert systems, quality assurance, quality control and forensic case file management. Prerequisites: FGEN 5305 and FGEN 5306 or instructor approval. Offered every summer. Letter Grade.