Congratulations to Atlantis Russ (Hawaii) and Jason Pugh (Arizona), who will be joining the Genetics GIDP as doctoral students in fall 2008. Both were also awarded a prestigious Science Foundation Arizona Fellowship, which will support the first two years of their education.

(Re)Newed Course fall 2008: GENE 533, Human Genetics. A team taught, 3 unit course covering basic genetic theory and techniques, as applied to the human species, as well as methods of analysis of genetic and environmental variation among individuals and populations.

Genetics Faculty in the News: Dr. Fernando Martinez, Dr. Joyce Schroeder, & Dr. Cari Soderlund.

What are Genetics and Genomics?

Genetics is the study of genes, the remarkable pieces of DNA that are the basis of heredity in all living organisms. It is the study of how genes are inherited, how they control the phenotype of cells and organisms, and how they evolve. It is also the application of our knowledge about genes in agriculture, conservation, and medicine. The study of genetics involves organisms all over the tree of life from bacteria to humans, and viruses too.  Genomics is genetics on a grand scale enabled by new techniques such as rapid DNA sequencing and microarrays, which enable us to study many genes or all the genes of an organism at the same time.