Genomics Concentration
AREA ADVISORS
Dr. Huntington Willard, Director, Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy, and Professor of Biology and Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Genome Sciences, phone: 668-4477, e-mail: hunt.willard@duke.edu
Dr. Greg Wray, Department of Biology, phone: 684-6696, e-mail : gwray@duke.edu
AREA FACULTY
Baugh, Benfey, Goldstein, Magwene, McClay, Mitchell-Olds, Noor, Schmid, Willard, Willis, Wray, Crawford, Dietrich, Furey, Ohler, Pott
(Reqs for students matriculating Fall 2010 or after can be found here)
Requirements for Students Matriculating before Fall 2010:
AREA REQUIREMENTS- PRE- and CO-REQUISITES:
___________ CHM 31L (or 19 or 43L or 22L or 23L)
___________ MTH 31 (or 41 or 25 & 26)
___________ MTH 32 (or 41) or 100 Level STA or BIO 189
___________ CHM 151L
___________ PHY 53L (or 41L or 51L or 61L)
Note: CHM 152 & PHY 54L recommended for pre-med, pre-vet, biochem, pharmacology, others___________ BIO 25L (or 19 or 20L) Students without BIO 25L or BIO 19 credit must take one course in ecology off the approved menu
___________ BIO 26B(L) or 26AL
(or Bio 106L, 107, 121, 126L, 131, 134L, 139S, 140L, 141L, 142L, 143L, 176L, 178L, 220L, 222L, 223S, or 224L)
CORE AREAS IN BIOLOGY: For the A.B. and B.S. Degrees
One of the following core course combinations, if prior to Fall 2010 you:
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-completed BIO 118 & 116 1. BIO 118, Gen&Mol Bio 2. BIO 116, Ecol & Evolution |
-completed BIO 116 1. BIO 116, Ecol & Evolution 2. BIO 101L, Molecular Bio |
-completed BIO 118 1. BIO 118, Gen&Mol Bio 2. BIO 102L, 122, 124, 174, or 187 |
-completed BIO 25L or AP (or will complete one course in ecology) 1. BIO 101L, Molecular Bio 2. BIO 102L, Genetics & Evol |
3) ___________Structure and Function (one course from menu below)
BIO 108L Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrates (F)
BIO 117 Cell and Organismal Physiology (S)
BIO 119 Cell and Developmental Biology (F, S)
BIO 121 Evolution of Animal Form (F)
BIO 149S Biomechanics (S)
BIO 150L Physiology Marine Animals (F, Sum-DUML)
BIO 151L Principles of Animal Physiology (S)
BIO 152 Molecular Plant Physiology (S)
BIO 154 Principles of Neurobiology (F)
BIO 156L Sensory Phys & Behav of Marine Animals (S- DUML)
BIO 171(D)/EvAnth 171(D) Primate Sexuality (S)
BIO 260 Cancer Genetics (S)
ADDITIONAL AREA REQUIREMENTS:
4) __________ One semester of independent study (BIO 191 or equivalent) with an Area Faculty member or with approval of an Area Advisor.
Three courses from the following list:
5) ___________ 6) ___________ 7) _____________
BIO 124L Molecular Evolution
BIO 187 Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics
BIO 195S Genomes, Biology and Medicine (Focus only)/BIO 194FCS Genomes, Biology and Medicine
BIO 271L Genomics Lab
BIO 274 Human Evolutionary Genomics
BIO 289S Advanced Topics in Genome Sciences Research
BIO 297 Research Independent Study (continuation of BIO 191 above)
COMPSCI 160 Introduction to Computational Genomics
GENOME 148 Genome Sciences and Society
BIOLOGY ELECTIVES:
8) _______ Any BIO (at the 100-level or above) or approved elective
Among the above courses in biological sciences, at the 100-level or above, the following requirements must be met:
1) Two lab courses, not including Bio 101L and 102L:
BIO 191 and __________ (only one independent study can be used)
2) At least one full 200-level Biology ‘Capstone’course or alternate. Only second semester continuation of Independent Study counts towards this requirement. 'Capstone' Course __________
Area Description:
Biology in the last two decades has been transformed by the emergence of genomics and its focus on comprehensive and data-intensive approaches to the study of living organisms. Formally, genomics is the scientific study of a genome, the complete DNA sequence of an individual, a population or a species. More generally, the name is also used to refer to a series of related “-omics” that reflect the comprehensive study of the full complement of, for example, proteins (hence, proteomics), transcripts (transcriptomics) or metabolites (metabolomics). The essential feature of the “-omes” is that they concentrate on the complete collection of genes, proteins, transcripts or metabolites, not just on the study of individual entities. It is this focus on comprehensive and high-throughput approaches to questions in biology that distinguishes this area of concentration.
The Genomics Concentration involves faculty in Biology, as well as others in the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) who are committed to welcoming undergraduate Biology majors into their research programs. The Genomics Concentration encourages students to take basic and advanced level courses covering the experimental and computational approaches that define this field and emphasizes applying this knowledge to ongoing research projects in biology through Independent Study.
Students fulfilling the requirements of the Area of Concentration in Genomics will receive a note on their official transcript certifying successful completion of the Area of Concentration.
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