BIOS 403: Field Genomics: Long-Read Sequencing at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve

Course Description

Field Genomics is a course intended to expose advanced undergraduates/graduate students to principles of Oxford Nanopore sequencing through participating in a guided research project at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve (JRBP). Students will have the opportunity to design and answer their own research questions - which may be specific to the biology of JRBP - via contemporary long-read sequencing techniques. These include but are not limited to collecting samples, extracting and purifying DNA libraries, sequencing using the MinION, and analyzing data.