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Critical reading and analysis of primary source literature is vital to scientific discourse and discovery. Students will be responsible for analyzing and critiquing papers in diverse topics and systems ranging from replication, transcription, and translation to enzyme mechanism, drug resistance, innate immunity, and signaling. Methods covered will include structural, biochemical, single-molecule, single-cell, and genomic approaches. Students will deliver analytic presentations on at least two ground-breaking papers relevant to these areas, and will be expected to actively participate in class discussion of experimental methodology and logic of other papers assigned in the course.