I am now quite excited by the outline of my lectures and how they relate to the three timelines- landmarks in genetics, technology developments, and Nobel prizes. The connections are interesting of course. I talked to colleagues and asked them what I had missed. Depending on their own expertise they suggested certain things. For example, Boveri from a cell biologist and 'one gene one enzyme' from a Neurospora expert. My yeast colleague and I were talking and I will add the genome-wide yeast knockout strain library- that's genomics and reverse genetics!
Jeff, who runs the microarray core in the Cancer Center has agreed to star in a movie I will make about the 'Solid' sequencer he operates. This is one of the next generation seqencers. They use it to sequence microRNAs so it will connect to the content on several levels. The students I teach in another class toured his facilty and were very impressed with the million dollar machine!
The use of genomics in forensics will be another thing I discuss. Mike who runs the sequencing center in my building has a kit, which is the same one that the FBI use, so he can profile people for alleles at 13 loci. I have asked him if he will come to class to profile some of our students. I'm waiting to hear back from him.
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