Santa Monica College

Life Science Department

M. A. Bober M.P.H. Ph.D

Fall Semester, 2008

Biology 3

Biology 22

Biology 3: Fundamental of Biology  Section 1206 (please see Bio 3 on ecompanion)

Biology 22: Genetics and Molecular Biology Sections: 1232 &1233

Bio 22 F08 Syllabus (click on link)

Bio 22:  Dr. Bober's F08 lectures and labs (click on link for posted lectures/lab materials and for exam topics)  Note:  be sure and check check Dr. Colavito's homepage http://homepage.smc.edu/colavito_mary/  for Genetics lectures, problem sets and solutions.

October 27th National Society of Genetic Counselors Meeting in Los Angeles:  Students (over 18 years of age) are most welcome to attend.  The event is completely free of charge for students but you MUST register online www.nsgc.org  so that the organization knows approximately how many attendees to expect.  Valet parking is provided free of charge.  Careers in genetic counseling provide numerous opportunities to use your knowledge of molecular and genetics in this growing discipline.  The meeting will have genetic counselors available so that you can meet with them as well as poster presentations to provide you information about the diversity of their work.

Contact Information

email: bober_mary@smc.edu

Telephone Number: (310) 434-3140

Office:  Science Building 281

Mailing Address: 

Santa Monica College

Life Science Department

1900 Pico Blvd.

Santa Monica, CA  90405

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Bio 22 students: please be sure and use the links below to obtain information about lecture, laboratories and topics to be covered on your exams and quiz-essays.  While this same information has also been presented in lecture and/or lab an additional effort has been made to establish these links for your use and to help answer questions you may still have about the course.  Furthermore, there are links to animations, research institutions and programs that you may find helpful and informative.

Online resources:  Please check out the links below as you scroll down this page.

1. Research Organizations and Centers:

• National Institutes of Health
• National Center for Biotechnology

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

2. ANIMATIONS:  These links include animations of DNA replication and other DNA and/or RNA related processes and/or experiments

• Animations of DNA replication and related DNA based experiments
• Animations of molecular techniques from Cold Spring Harbor

• Transcription animation
• Animation MOVIE of Translation with narration. (eukaryotic)
• Animation of Translation with narration (prokaryotic)

3. Student Programs, Internships and Scholarships related science/molecular biology

• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 

• UCLA Bridges Program 
• UCLA Care-Extender Internship Program Flyser (pdf) 2007     

4. Links that may be of general use:

• A link to histological (Microscopic Slides)
• A link to on-line graph paper   
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• www.jbpub.com/humanbiology: this is a general biology website that allows you review introductory biology concepts.  There are flash cards and outlines available; however keep in mind these are review concepts and do not necessarily reflect the depth and breadth of material in Human Physiology 3 and Biology 22.

As I find articles that might be of interest to you I will add them to the list below.

5. Full length articles, abstracts and presentations of interests:

Invasive Breast Cancer in African-American Women and mitochondrial DNA

When RNA Rules