Molecular Biology and Evolution of Genomes

The course aims to provide solid basic knowledge of molecular biology and bioinformatics that will allow students to understand with an adequate level of detail the main known molecular mechanisms underlying cellular life, with particular emphasis on the transmission and processing of information genetics. Alongside the discussion of the processes of transcription, translation, replication and DNA repair, a part of the course will be devoted to examples of molecular mechanisms regulating transcription and translation. Another objective of the course is the understanding of the evolution of genomes and the quantitative methods used to analyze it.

At the end of the course, the student will acquire:
- ability to understand the complexity of the information flow from the gene to the protein.
- ability to understand and interpret data related to biomolecular processes studied with large-scale approaches.
- ability to face, during subsequent studies, the continuous developments of molecular biology, a discipline in constant expansion.
- ability to transfer knowledge of molecular biology to related problems in the naturalistic field.