This course will cover topics of critical importance for understanding modern bacterial genetics. The course content will include the study of DNA elements including the chromosome, plasmids and bacteriophage, gene expression at the transcriptional, translational and post-translational levels, methods of genetic analysis, transposition, recombination, and the genetics of antibiotic resistance. Incorporated into these topics will be problem solving exercises, discussions of new directions in bacterial genetics, and selected readings in recent applications of bacterial genetics to pathogenesis, development and spread of antibiotic resistance, disease therapy or the study of the human microbiota.

This course will cover topics of critical importance for understanding modern bacterial genetics. The course content will include the study of DNA elements including the chromosome, plasmids and bacteriophage, gene expression at the transcriptional, translational and post-translational levels, methods of genetic analysis, transposition, recombination, and the genetics of antibiotic resistance. Incorporated into these topics will be problem solving exercises, discussions of new directions in bacterial genetics, and selected readings in recent applications of bacterial genetics to pathogenesis, development and spread of antibiotic resistance, disease therapy or the study of the human microbiota.