{"id":112,"date":"2013-01-30T01:02:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T01:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/?page_id=112"},"modified":"2018-12-17T18:57:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T18:57:29","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/?page_id=112","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #333399;\">BIO265. Human Evolutionary Genetics<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Spring Semester. This course explores human evolution and history using population genetics. \u00a0Among the topics covered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does paleoanthropology says about human evolution?<\/li>\n<li>Kinds, amounts, and causes of human genetic variation<\/li>\n<li>The genetic basis of adaptation in human populations<\/li>\n<li>Migration and demographic history<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s in the human genome and why?<\/li>\n<li>Interactions between modern and archaic humans<\/li>\n<li>How does cultural evolution affect biological evolution?<\/li>\n<li>Finding the mutations that cause disease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333399;\">BIO472. Advanced Topics in Evolution and Ecology.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This team-taught graduate course covers a variety of topics, laying the foundations for graduate study in evolution and ecology.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333399;\">BIO265. Molecular Evolution [retired in 2018]<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This course explored evolution at the molecular level. Among the topics covered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inferring history from DNA sequences<\/li>\n<li>Determining how natural selection shapes the evolution of genes<\/li>\n<li>Studying the relationship between molecular and phenotypic evolution<\/li>\n<li>Studying the evolution of genome organization and content<\/li>\n<li>Assigning biological function to genome sequences<\/li>\n<li>Finding the sources of epidemics<\/li>\n<li>Mapping genes involved in human diseases and adaptations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIO265. Human Evolutionary Genetics Spring Semester. This course explores human evolution and history using population genetics. \u00a0Among the topics covered: What does paleoanthropology says about human evolution? Kinds, amounts, and causes of human genetic variation The genetic basis of adaptation &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/?page_id=112\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3962,"parent":0,"menu_order":4000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-112","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3852,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/112\/revisions\/3852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rochester.edu\/PresgravesLab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}