BIO107Lectures

BIO107 (Introduction to Biotechnology)
Lecture Recordings

All lectures will be posted as MP3, so they will play on portable players. If you LEFT click on a link, the recording will play in the browser. If you want to save the recording on your computer, so you can load it onto a portable player, you must RIGHT click on the link to invoke a pop-up menu. Then choose 'Save Link As' (or a similar option, depending on your browser) to save the file to the location of your choice. BE SURE TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHERE YOU SAVE THE FILE, SO YOU CAN FIND IT AFTER IT DOWNLOADS. Explicit instructions are found here.

As you listen to the recordings, follow along with the corresponding slide show that I presented during the live lecture. Obviously, there will be no lecture recordings to choose from until I deliver the first lecture in class. After the course begins, the link to a lecture recording will appear within hours after the lecture is given in class. If it has been a day or more, and the link has still not appeared, please email me.

Week	Date	Lecture Topic(s)	Laboratory Exercise(s)
01	19 Aug	Syllabus	Lab Safety Biotechnology Products
01	21 Aug	Scientific fundamentals I Tools of Biotechnology	Pipetting (Activity 2.2)
02	26 Aug	Scientific fundamentals II	Disk Diffusion Test (Activity 3.2)
02	28 Aug	Scientific method	Analysis of Results for Disk Diffusion Test Quantifying Bacterial Numbers (Activity 3.5)
03	02 Sep	Observance of Labor Day (No Meeting)
03	04 Sep	The metric system	Analysis of Results for Quantifying Bacterial Numbers
04	09 Sep	Cells	Microscopy
04	11 Sep	Examination 1
05	16 Sep	DNA
05	18 Sep	Gene expression	DNA Extraction And Precipitation (Activity 2.1)
06	23 Sep	Plasmids Restriction enzymes
06	25 Sep	Description of solutions used	Bacterial Transformation With pGLO Plasmid (Activity 5.2) Purification Of pGLO Plasmids (Activity 5.3)
07	30 Sep	Electrophoresis	DNA Quantitation (Activity 5.4)
07	02 Oct	Examination 2
08	07 Oct	Mendelian genetics I	Forensic DNA Fingerprinting (Activity 4.5) Part 1
08	09 Oct	Mendelian genetics II	Forensic DNA Fingerprinting (Activity 4.5) Part 2
09	14 Oct	Rise of the Superbugs (Movie) Mutation	Tests for Genetic Traits
09	16 Oct	Mitosis	Examination of Beet Root Cells
10	21 Oct	Meiosis (Part 1; Part 2)
10	23 Oct	Examination 3
11	28 Oct	Polymerase chain reaction (Part 1; Part 2)
11	30 Oct	Transgenesis
12	04 Nov		Biofuel Enzyme Assay (Activity 7.5)
12	06 Nov	Genetically modified organisms & Horizontal gene transfer	Analysis of Results for Biofuel Enzyme Assay
13	11 Nov	Observance of Veterans' Day (No Meeting)
13	13 Nov		GMO Detection by PCR (Activity 6.2) Parts 1 and 2
14	18 Nov	Genetically modified foods Cracking Your Genetic Code (Movie)
14	20 Nov	Rationale of the GM Foods exercise	GMO Detection by PCR (Activity 6.2) Part 3
15	25 Nov	Examination 4
15	27 Nov	Antibodies and immunity
16	02 Dec	Cancer Warrior (Movie) ELISA	Serum Antibody Detection by ELISA (Activity 8.2)
16	04 Dec	Proteomics
FW	11 Dec	Examination 5 (08:00)

Laboratory Exercise(s)