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CACCHIONE STEFANO
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Next Generation Sequencing: methodologies and applications (Lectures 1-14, 28 h)
Methodologies
• History of DNA sequencing
• Human Genome Project
• Next Generation Sequencing (deep sequencing)
• NGS Platforms and technologies
• Third Generation Sequencing
• Data analysis
Applications
• RNA-seq
• ChIP-seq
• Metagenomics and microbiomics
• Towards personalized medicine
Single Molecule Techniques and Super Microscopy (Lectures 15-18, 8 h)
Studying single molecules
• AFM (Atomic Force Microscopy)
• Single molecule FRET
From Microscopy to Nanoscopy: beyond the limits of Abbe law
• STED (Stimulated Emission Depletion)
• STORM (Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy)
Advanced Tools to Target and Edit Genomes (Lectures 19-22, 8h; Flipped learning, 2 h; Laboratory Exercise, 12 h)
• Gene knockdown by RNA interference
• Gene targeting by site-specific nucleases: ZFNs (Zinc Finger Nucleases), TALENs (transcription activator-like effector nucleases)
• CRISPR/CAS revolution: a simple and powerful method to edit genomes
• Applications of the CRISPR/CAS system
• Future perspectives of gene and genome editing
• Design a project to target a gene by CRISPR/Cas9 (Flipped learning)
• Cloning single-guide RNA expressing vectors (Lab exercise)
There is not a specific textbook for the course. Knowledge of basic biomolecular techniques is expected to succeed in the course.
Reviews and articles, together with lectures (PDF), will be available on the course website on e-learning platform
TEXTS
Basic knowledge
Biotecnologie Molecolari, principi e tecniche (2a edizione) – Brown TA, Zanichelli 2017
Gene Cloning and DNA Analysis: An Introduction (7th edition) - Brown TA, Wiley & Sons (2016)
Biologia Molecolare del Gene (settima edizione) (cap. 7; parte 6, Appendix) – Watson et al., Zanichelli ed.
From Genes to Genomes – Dale JW, Von Schantz M, Plant N, Wiley-Blackwell eds.*
Specific knowledge
Reviews and articles (available on the course website)
Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Informatics – Brown, CSHL press#
Atomic Force Microscopy For Biologists – Morris et al., Imperial College Press#
* Available at the Department library (Antropologia)
# Available at the teacher’s room (Fisiologia Generale, 1° floor, Room 10)
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