Genetics

The programme is aimed at comprehensive and high-quality training of academic staff in the following areas: 

• Molecular and cytological principles of heredity. Genetic code. Structural and functional organisation of genomes. Processes of replication, recombination, and repair. Mutational variability. Genomic and chromosomal rearrangements. Modification variability. Methods of genetic analysis in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Genetic mapping. Extrachromosomal inheritance. Epigenetics. Realisation of genetic information (transcription, translation). Mechanisms of gene expression regulation. Interaction of genes. Genetics of individual development. Cloning of organisms. Genetic and cell engineering. Transgenic organisms 
• Genetic fundamentals of biotechnology. Structural, functional and evolutionary genomics. Genetic bioinformatics. Genosystematics. Private genetics of microorganisms, plants and animals. Genetics of somatic cells. Symbiogenetics. Population genetics. Genetic structure of populations 
• Natural and artificial selection, speciation, genetic mechanisms of evolution. Ecological and conservation genetics. Human genetics. Medical genetics. Hereditary diseases. Genotoxicity. Gene therapy