Eukaryotic Transcription and Epigenetics

2 - 3 credits · Graduate credit

The course will focus on recent discoveries in eukaryotic transcription, including transcription complex architecture, co-transcriptional mRNA processing, chromatin organization and modifications, mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance, and gene regulation by transcription factors and non-coding RNAs. The course will be taught through a combination of lectures and discussions of the primary literature.