BioS 90-10; CRN 4035
3 Credits
TR 14:35-15:50
Professor Robert Skibbens
First year course
assessing the 'science' in science fiction. The course will involve
viewing films and video followed by student and/or instructor presentations
which will provide an understanding of the techniques used and their
limitations. The course requires student presentations, written
assignments and independent literature study.
Robert V. Skibbens, Ph. D. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1994)
uses budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism to study
chromosome transmission, cell cycle progression and genome maintenance.