Meiosis, Recombination, and Sex
| Corbin Jones | Greg Copenhaver | Jeff Sekelsky |
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| This is a seminar course for graduate students, but advanced undergraduates can take it with permission of instructors. We will meet weekly to discuss 1-2 assigned papers. Each week, a student will serve as moderator to lead discussions, but everyone will be expected to have read the papers and to participate in the critique. The end of each course meeting will include a prelude to the next topic, with background information to aid in understanding the papers. Copies of papers will be available on Blackboard. To be added to the Blackboard user list, send an email to Jeff Sekelsky. We will have an organizational meeting on Thursday, Jan 10 at 2:30 pm in 215 Coker Hall. Please bring your schedules, so that we can find a weekly meeting time when everyone is available. At this meeting we will also introduce the first paper, which will be discussed at the first regular meeting (it will need introduction, because it's from 1964 and some of the language and background will be unfamiliar). In the first section of the course, directed by JS, both historically important and more recent papers dealing with recombination models will be discussed. We'll start with Robin Holliday's seminal 1964 paper (at least part of it - we'll skip some sections, to be enumerated in the cheat sheet that will be posted on Blackboard). We'll talk about the use (and at times, perhaps, the misuse) of models. Where do they come from? What do they predict? How does one test the predictions? etc. The second section will be directed by GC, and the third by CJ. There should be a few weeks remaining to cover topics suggested by those enrolled in the course. |