BIOL 4350

Students take an in-depth look into the heritable information stored in the genome of an organism and learn how this information is expressed in a highly regulated fashion to respond to changes in the environment or to generate a diverse set of cell types. They examine the molecular mechanisms underlying the regulation of gene expression with emphasis on mammalian cells and realize the importance of epigenetics and the epigenome. Students explore new and ongoing research that is continuously uncovering the role of epigenetics in a variety of human disorders and fatal diseases.