This class seemed intimidating at first, but the actual way in which we did assignments and exams wasn't so bad. The exams and quizzes were open notes, but the exams were worth a lot of our grade since there isn't a lab report to be graded like in regular microbio lab. You can work with others on the quizzes. There was an extra credit giant lab report of everything we did, but I didn't do it because it was only worth min 15 point and max 25 points (top 5 reports) in an about 1000 point class. Too much work for little reward.

You are inserting a gene from one species of bacteria into another, then performing qualitative and quantitative tests on the protein made from the gene.

Claudio was such a fun professor with a good sense of humor, and he was reasonable. I will say he kinda just throws you into the experiments, so definitely TRY to read them before hand. The TA (Brandon) was helpful.

TAKE DETAILED NOTES OF WHAT HE SAYS. Record audio if you have to. He WILL test you on things he has strictly discussed.

Take the other professor. He yelled at us for not knowing what the lac operan does and explained that this was an “advanced” course, so we should already have the “basic” knowledge from Micro bio lab. Did not teach well and got mad when we didn’t know the answer. He expects us to know everything when he hasn’t even explained step 1.

I couldn’t even tell you because his lectures were so bad.

The worst professor I’ve ever had at the University. He is very passionate about genetics but expects too much from the students even though he doesn’t teach well. He’s more of a researcher than a lecturer.

Take antimicrobial resistance lab

I wish I would've taken this course with the other professor available, Gonzalez didn't really prepare you for the quizzes I felt.