Plant and Animal Cell Biology
Sunday, 22 October, 2000
Monash University's Biological Sciences will be offering a course entitled `Molecular Genetic Techniques for Plant and Animal Cell Biology'. The course will be held from 27 November to 1 December 2000.
The course covers topics such as DNA/RNA isolation and analysis; culture and genetic transformation of plant and animal cells and tissues in vitro; PCR procedures; microsatellite DNA analysis in population and conservation genetics; applications of confocal microscopy; in situ hybridisation; and DNA sequence analysis.
For further information: email Prof John Hamill on www.sci.monash.edu.au.
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