The Evolution of Infectious Diseases with Justin Meyer: Lecture 3 - Mutation

UC San Diego professor of biology Justin Meyer, who specializes in infectious disease research presents his course The Evolution of Infectious Diseases with special attention to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the COVID-19 disease and its pandemic spread throughout the world. In this lecture he explains mutation, how it occurs and how to understand mutation rate and its relevance to resistance and treatment. Recorded on 04/07/2020. [Show ID: 35818]
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[@dasrotrad]

THANK YOU! Great explanation.

[@uctv]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@scottbritton3797]

I appreciate your teaching

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Nice very nice!!

[@markmueller7155]

in the slide at 55 minutes , need to multiply by 5 million base pairs to get 50 million mutations.

[@david.juillet]

I'm only ten minutes in, but it appears this video did not age well, what with all your hope and optimism. Please try again lol :)