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HC70A Winter 2006 Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture, and Law Professor Bob Goldberg Class Announcements 1/12/06 HC70A Winter 2006 Genetic Engineering in Medicine, Agriculture, and Law Webcasts http://www.oid.ucla.edu/webcasts/courses/20052006/2006winter/hc70a (need Real Player) or http://www/mcdb.ucla.edu/Research/GoldbergHC70A_ W06/videos.php (need Quicktime 7.0) Dinner Tonight •Dinner is at the Faculty Center (next to Schoenberg Hall) after Class. •Jessica will take you there. •Dress is informal •Please RSVP ([email protected]) for dinners that you are scheduled for Discussion •Come PREPARED!!!!! •Read Articles Carefully Prior to Discussion •What’s the Question, the Approach, the Results, the Conclusions? •Study Each Figure/Experiment/Legends-Ask The Same Questions! •Read Relevant Parts of Text That Relate to Concepts Covered in Articles •Read Articles ACTIVELY -Look Up Unknown Words/Concepts - Ask Yourself Questions Along the Way - What Does This Mean?! Discussion Articles For Next Week •Useful Proteins From Recombinant DNA •Discovering Genes For Medicine •Bioinformatics Gold •Human Genome Business Color Copies Can Be Downloaded From Either the Blackboard or Goldberg HC70A W06 Websites Read Text Chapters 2 & 3 For Background Information Quizzes • Due Fridays By Midnight @ 2832 Life Sciences Bld. (my office) • Can (and should) Work in Groups • Rules? Office Hours bobg: 11-2 Wednesday ([email protected]) 2832 Life Sciences Building Mike: 10-12 Friday ([email protected]) Gloria: 12-2 Friday ([email protected]) 2805 Life Sciences Building Start to Read The Double Helix by J.D. Watson The Recombinant DNA Controversy-A Memoir Science, Politics, and the Public Interest by D.S. Fredrickson ASM Press 2001 ISBN 1-55581-222-8 View DNA:Playing God Chapter 2 -Asilomar Conference Last Tuesday •Age of DNA, Genetic Engineering, Genomics and Mammalian Reproduction •What Does DNA Look Like? •The Age of Genetic Engineering-GloFish •What Does the GloFish Experiment Tell Us About the Function of Genes in Different “Creatures? •Scientific Process-How Does Science Work (e.g., Design an experiment to show that a jellyfish gene can work in a mouse? •What’s the hypothesis, predictions, experiment to test, results, conclusions? Today •Continue Genetic Engineering Examples! •What is Genetic Engineering? •Genetic Engineering-Anything New? •“Classical” Eugenics? •Age of Genomics? •Age of Mammalian Reproduction?