Lecture notes prepared by Jonathan Wolfe

I am based in the Galton Laboratory, formerly the Department of Genetics and Biometry and now part of the Department of Biology

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Links to various courses

Medical curriculum: The old curriculum

Chemistry of the Cell and Genetics. "The old curriculum" was replaced in 2000 but I've left the virtual lectures here.
 

New Medical curriculum: year 1 - Foundations of health and disease.

Fundamentals of genetics Link to suggested reading for the Foundation module for first year medical students.
Meiosis and Mendel Lecture on meiosis, Mendel and Hardy Weinberg. Phew!!!
Pedigrees Computer aided learning exercise on pedigree drawing and interpretation.
 

New Medical curriculum: year 2 - Reproduction, Development and Genetics

Lectures genetics course component information, and links to lecture notes
Drawing and Interpreting Pedigrees Computer aided learning module 1
Population screening:
“Advise the Minister”
Computer aided learning module 2
Clinical scenario:
“Will our baby be healthy?”
Mostly written by Sue Povey with only a minor input from me but linked here so that you can find it easily.
 

Science courses: year 2

Introduction to human genetics Biology b241: A course for second year B.Sc. students
bioinformatics Shortcut to a tutorial which forms part of the above course.
A glossary of terms used in genetics What it says! Not a course but a useful reference web page.
Cloning cDNA, large insert clones, genome projects Four lectures in Biology B200: Molecular biology
Sex determination A lecture in Biology B250: developmental biology
 

Science courses: year 3

Advanced human genetics A course for third year B.Sc. students.
Disease to gene to therapy A tutorial on cancer genetics and mutation detection.