Instructors and TAs:

Professors:

Mike Eisen	84-344 LBL	mbeisen@lbl.gov
Georjana Barnes	608 Barker Hall	gbarnes@socrates.berkeley.edu
David Bilder	201 LSA	bilder@socrates.berkeley.edu

TAs:

Roshni Kasad	roshnik@berkeley.edu
Oliver Zill	zill@berkeley.edu
Leslie Stanton	lstanton@gmail.com
Holly Morrison	hmorrison@berkeley.edu

Support personnel:

Ann Fischer	Room 201A GPBT	642-5956
Audrey Nolte	Room 201A GPBT	642-4054

Office Hours:

Mike Eisen, David Bilder, and Georjana Barnes have office hours by appointment so contact us when you need an appointment.

The TAs will have office hours: Tues. and Thurs. from 11:30 am-12:30 PM in the lab. You can also make appointments with the TA's if you cannot attend their regular office hours.

Lab Partners:

Students work in pairs in the laboratory; however, lab reports are written individually. Lab partner assignments will be finalized at the beginning of class on January 18.

Class Time:

Class starts PROMPTLY at 1:10 pm and almost always ends by 5:00 pm, although on rare occasions an experiment might go over time. A couple of times during the semester it will be necessary for at least one member of each pair to make a brief appearance (<30 min.) in lab either the day before or day after a formal class to carry out some part of an experiment.

Lectures:

Will be held towards the beginning of class, but not always at the start of the period. In many cases, it will be necessary to begin an experimental procedure at 1:10 pm to make efficient use of time so that the experiment can be completed by 5:00 pm.

Lab Manual:

A lab manual has been prepared for the course and may be purchased from Copy Central (48 Shattuck Square). Purchase of the lab manual is NOT optional; any student who has not purchased a manual by 5:00 pm, January 18, 2007 will be dropped from the course.

Lab Notebook:

You must have a notebook that enables you to make carbon copies of your notes. Such a notebook may be purchased at the ASUC bookstore.

Grading:

Grades in this course will be based on a combination of written lab reports, protocols, exams, and TA evaluations during the course of the semester. There is no final exam. Point values for lab reports and exams are listed below. In addition to lab reports and exams, you will be required to come to class with a prepared experimental protocol or to hand in a results table when the experiment is completed. Moreover, for the beginning of each lab, you will be required to turn in answers to the questions printed on the first page of that lab. While these items will not have specific assigned point values, each one will be worth up to 5% of the point value of the report or exam for the experiment in question. In other words, if you do not hand in assigned protocols or results tables ON THE DAY THAT THEY ARE DUE, or they are of poor quality (technically and/or intellectually) you will LOSE points from the total assigned to the associated report or exam.

Grades on laboratory reports and exams will be based on the following points:

Report 1	Mapping DNA (Expt. 1)	50 points
Report 2	DNA sequence analysis (Expt. 4)	50 points
Report 3	Mutation Induction (Expt. 5)	50 points
Report 4	Mapping genes in Drosophila (Expt. 6)	100 points
Report 5	Yeast suppression, complementation, & mitotic mapping (Expts. 7, 8 & 9)	150 points
Exam 1	Cloning/Screening (Expts. 2 & 3)	100 points
Exam 2	Transposon mutagenesis & Hybrid Dysgenesis (Expts. 10 & 11)	50 points
Exam 3	Tetrad Analysis (Expt. 12) & RNAi in C. elegans (Expt. 13)	50 points
	TA Evaluation of lab technical skills and competance	20 points

For Report 1, you have the option of handing in a revised version of the report for regrading following the initial grading. A maximum of 50% of the total initially lost points will be given on the regrade. This regrading is mostly to help you learn how to write a lab report. Please consult the report guidelines, TAs and instructors if you have questions. Revised drafts MUST be freshly produced in their entirety and accompanied by the original graded draft. All revised drafts are due no later than two weeks from the day that Report 1 was originally returned to you.

Late reports, missed exams, missed classes:

Reports will be considered late if they are handed in after 1:15 pm on the due date. Reports handed in after 1:15 pm on the due date up to 1:15 pm 3 days later (including Saturday and Sunday) will automatically lose 10% of the possible point total. Reports handed in after 1:15 pm 3 days past the due date up to 1:15 pm 7 days past the due date will automatically lose 20% of the possible point total. Please inform one of your TAs if you are handing in a late report and make late hand-in arrangements with the TA responsible for grading your late report.

REPORTS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER 1:15 PM ONE WEEK PAST THE DUE DATE!

Under normal circumstances there will be NO make-up exams.

If you need to miss class due to illness, please inform one of your TAs AND your lab partner BEFORE the class meeting if at all possible. If any assignment or exam is scheduled for that day, you must make arrangements with one of your TAs about dealing with your absence.

If you need to miss class due to reasons other than illness (e.g., grad/med school interviews), please inform one of your TAs (and your lab partner) ASAP (and certainly before you miss class!) about the dates of your absence(s) and make arrangements with your TAs about dealing with your absence.

Keep in mind that 3 class sessions is equal to 10% of the course. We consider missing more than 10% of the course problematic and urge you to make all efforts to not miss more than 3 class sessions. Really, we urge you to not miss any, but É missing more than 3 class sessions may have a negative impact on your final grade!