Bacterial molecular biology with an emphasis on the use of genetic tools to study the biology of microorganisms. Topics include mutagenesis, conjugation, recombination, gene regulation, plasmids, transposons, bacteriophage and genomics. [Offered: W] Prereq: BIOL 140/240, 140/240L, (BIOL 208/309 or 330) and (BIOL 308 or 330)
