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Biotechnology Program (BIT)

Spring 2023


Full semester


BIT 295: Biotechnology and Sustainability

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BIT 402/502: Professional Development and Networking

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BIT 410/510: Manipulation of Recombinant DNA

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BIT 501: Ethical Issues in Biotechnology

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BIT 815: Rigor and Reproducibility in Research

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session 1 ( 8 weeks )


BIT 464/564: Protein Purification

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BIT 495/595: Synthetic Biology

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BIT 471: RNA Interference

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BIT 482/582: Virus Biotechnology: Pathogens to Therapeutics

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BIT 495/595: DNA Forensics

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BIT 495/595: Illuminating disease with chemical biology


BIT 495/595: Illuminating Disease with Chemical Biology

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session 2 ( 8 Weeks )


BIT 474/574: Plant Genetic Engineering

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BIT 495/595: Cancer Drug Discovery and development


BIT 495/595: Cancer Drug Development and Discovery

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BIT 495/595: Directed Evolution

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BIT 495/595: Introduction to Biological Electron Microscopy Techniques

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BIT 479/579: High-throughput Discovery

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Pictures of some of the species that will researched in te class. Top left: image of an Arabidopsis thaliana vegetative rosette leaves. Top right: image of a branching pattern of the fruit of Solanum lycopersicum (tomoato). Bottom left: an image of vegetative leaves of Lactuca sativa (lettuce). Bottom right: an image of an inflorescence of Helianthus annuus (sunflower).


BIT 495/595: Comparative Plant Transcriptomics

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96-well plate and blue-gloved hand setting plate in plate reader


BIT 495/595: Experimental Assay Techniques