The RNA World
Credit Hour(s): 2 Units
Instructor(s): Alfonzo
Offered: Autumn
Prerequisite(s): Graduate standing
Lecture Topics:
- The origin of the RNA world
- Ribozymes
- tRNA
- RNA editing and modification
- Small RNAs (siRNA and miRNAs)
- In vitro selection and RNA biotechnology
- Ribosomes and translation
- tmRNA and the story of the 21st and 22nd amino acids
- The origin of the genetic code