20.109: Spring 2007 schedule

MODULE	DAY	DATE	LECTURER	TA	LAB
		Tues Feb	NK		Orientation
1	1	Thurs Feb			DNA engineering by PCR
1	2	Tues Feb			Clean and cut DNA
1	3	Thurs			Agarose gel electrophoresis
		President's Day Feb 20			No lab Feb 21 (Mon schedule) or Feb 22
1	4	Thurs			DNA ligation and bacterial transformation
1	5	Tues Feb			Examine candidate clones
1	6	Thurs			Restriction map+ Article Discussion/Tissue Culture
1	7	Tues			Lipofection
1	8	Thurs Mar			FACS analysis
2	1	Tues Mar			Tools for protein engineering
2	2	Thurs Mar			Assessing beta-galactosidase
2	3	Tues Mar			Purifying beta-galactosidase
2	4	Thurs Mar			Student presentations
		Spring Break Mar 27-31			No lab Mar 27-31
3	1	Tues Apr			Tools for systems engineering
3	2	Thurs Apr			Basic bacterial photography: black and white
3	3	Tues Apr			Advanced bacterial photography: 2 color
3	4	Thurs Apr			Device characterization
		Patriot's Day April 17-18			No lab Apr 18 or Apr 19
3	5	Thurs Apr			Measuring DNA, RNA, protein
3	6	Tues Apr			RT-PCR data analysis
4	1	Thurs Apr			Screening library
4	2	Tues May			Optimizing panning
4	3	Thurs May			Rescreening gold binders
4	4	Tues May			PCR of gold binding candidates
4	5	Thurs May			Student presentations
4	6	Tues May			Analyze sequence data
		Thurs May 18			Lecture only, no lab