Regulation of Gene Expression

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Regulatory mechanisms controlling gene expression in eukaryotes; students will read, discuss, and present primary research literature in class. Topics include but may not be limited to: assembly of the initiation complex; roles of transcription factors, co-activators and cis-acting regulatory elements; promoter escape; mechanisms that control elongation, termination and anti-termination of transcription; chromatin control of transcription; co-transcriptional RNA processing; roles of non-coding RNAs.