Bacterial Genetics (BioMI4850) - Students gain a detailed understanding of how bacteria maintain and pass on genetic information with a strong focus on the the model organisms, Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. They discover the processes by which bacteria evolve through different mutations and the exchange of genetic information. The course explores how genes are regulated efficiently through negative and positive regulation and by global regulatory mechanisms. Upon completion of the course students should understand the tools used to manipulate bacterial genomes for the understanding of bacteria and other living organisms. There is also an extra credit option for this course. The extra credit option involve an extra class meeting where we work from primary literature to get more into the details in some areas touched upon in the larger class. Microbial Genetics (BioMI 6904) - This 1 credit module will cover bacterial genetics. The format will involve an introduction lecture at the first class and then mini-lectures in subsequent classes. These mini-lectures will introduce topics that will be explored more thoroughly with a class discussion of a primary literature article at the following class. Questions will be given out to help focus each discussion on key questions and issues.