AGSC 3110 - Principles and Methods of Biotechnology II (4)

This course will be a continuation of AGSC 2600. It will be hands-on blending lectures and laboratory sessions which will include 1) detection of food borne pathogens, allergenic substances in foods and animal feeds, and antibody mediated assays; 2) transcriptional and genetic analyses to improve health and productivity of food animals, and rapid nucleic acid/immunoassay based techniques for the detection of pathogens in animal products; 3) plant-microbe interaction; and 4) instrumentation orientations for electron microscopy, flow Cytometery, X-Ray Diffractometery, and ICP-OES etc. Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1010, 1011, BIOL 1110, 1111, CHEM 1110, 1111.