Genome-based Envtl Monitoring

0.5 credits · Graduate

This course provides insight into how DNA is being used to surveil terrestrial and aquatic wildlife, track environmental contaminants and disease, and monitor the quality of water and food using leading-edge technologies. The content ranges from foundational genetics concepts relevant to how DNA is collected, extracted and analyzed to high-throughput sequencing, metabarcoding and gene editing. Assignments include practical applications of various DNA sequence analyses and presentations of case studies.