Offered Every winter semester (next offering: Winter 2025)
Last offered Winter 2024
Prerequisites: None
Undergraduates are allowed to enroll in this course.
Description: This course examines principles and applications of epigenetics as they relate to human nutrition, environmental exposures and disease etiology, including mechanisms and policy implications. Case studies evaluate processes using animal and human examples drawn from the literature. Students will be introduced to laboratory methods and emerging technologies for examining epigenetics.
This course is cross-listed with NUTR 660 in the NUTR 660 department.