Programação

  • LGN5703 - Cytogenetics

    Program


    • Class-1 (03/03/2020)

    Discipline presentation. Introduction to Cytogenetics. Brief historic overview. Methods for chromosome studies. Introduction to chromosome organization. Chromatin Structure and Packing. Discovery of the repetitive sequences. Genome organization. Genome size and gene number. C-value paradox.


    • Class-2 (10/03/2020)

    Chromosome staining. Chromosome Banding. Fluorochrome staining. Fluorescent Molecular in situ hybridization - FISH. Fluorescent Genomic in situ hybridization and Chromosome painting. Immune-localization of chromosomal proteins. Flow cytometry.


    • Class-3 (17/03/2020)

    Cell cycle, mitosis, and endoreduplication. Importance of the endoreduplication cycles. Cell cycle control. Cyclins and kinases. Application to biotechnology and plant breeding. Chromosome number determination, karyotypes and chromosomal variability, chromosomal evolution.


    • Class-4 (24/03/2020)

    Meiosis, chromosome pairing, synaptonemal complex, and recombination. Meiosis consequences. Genetic control of cell meiosis. Gametogenesis and Double Fertilization. Apomixis. 


    • Class-05 (31/03/2020)

    Recombination, Crossing-over, Chromosome mapping, Three-point test, Mapping function, collinearity, and comparative genomics.


    Easter Break (07/04/2020)


    • Class-06 (14/04/2020)

    Partial exam (First Exam)


    Tiradentes’s holiday (21/04/2020)


    • Class-07 (28/04/2020)

    Chromosomal instabilities, transposable elements, the behavior of abnormal chromosomes. Telomere function, non-disjunction, centromere functioning, mis-division, consequences of chromosome instabilities. Introduction to cytogenetics applied to plant breeding.


    • Class-08 (05/05/2020)

    Structural chromosome changes. Duplication and deletion/deficiencies. Genetic mapping using deletion/deficiencies. Chromosomal inversions. Consequences of paracentric and pericentric inversions.


    • Class-09 (12/05/2020)

    Structural chromosome changes. Unidirectional and reciprocal translocations. Robertsonian translocation. Chromosome number modification by translocations. Consequences of translocations.


    • Class-10 (19/05/2020)

    Numerical chromosome changes. Aneuploidy and Euploidy. Origin and Evolution of the polyploids. Meiotic restitution. Polyploidy consequences. Aneuploidy. Autopolyploidy meiotic behavior and consequences. Plant breeding and genetic mapping in autopolyploids.


    • Class-11 (26/05/2020)

    Double reduction and its consequence in polyploids. Autotriploidy. Origin and production of autotriploids. Applications to plant breeding and gene mapping. Triploidy meiotic behavior.


    • Class-12 (02/06/2020)

    Aneuploidy. Aneuploidy classification. Aneuploidy meiotic behavior. Aneuploidy applied to plant breeding. Allopoliploidy. Allopolyploidy origin and evolution. Meiotic behavior in allopolyploids. Defining polyploidy types. Complex polyploids.


    • Aula-13 (09/06/2020)

    Chromosome engineering. Chromosome manipulation in polyploids. Addition and substitution lines. Production of primary and secondary aneuploids. Applications to plant breeding.


    • Aula-14 (16/06/2020)

    Haploidy. Nature and strategies of haploids. Origin and production of haploid plants. Application of haploidy in plant breeding. Meiotic behavior in haploids.


    • Aula-15 (23/06/2020)

    Seminars and monographs


    • Aula-16 (30/06/2020)

    Final exam



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