Description: Seminar, one hour. Overview of natural product discovery and development into medicines. Exposure to sequencing, genetic editing, and recombinant biology, and associated ethical implications. Discussion of current state of biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. Offers overview of field of genome mining, insight into laboratory research and pharmaceutical development, and perspective on process of discovering and developing natural product medicines. P/NP grading. Facilitated by Alexander Soohoo, with Yi Tang as faculty mentor.

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