BE.180:Syllabus

MODULE	DAY	DATE	LECTURER	TA	LAB
		Tues Feb 7	DE	MF	Orientation
1	1	Thurs Feb 9	BE	YSN	DNA engineering by PCR
1	2	Tues Feb 14	BE	YSN	Clean and cut DNA
1	3	Thurs Feb 16	BE	YSN	Agarose gel electrophoresis
		President's Day holiday Feb 20			No lab Tues Feb 21(Mon schedule) or Wed Feb 22
1	4	Thurs Feb 23	BE	YSN	DNA ligation and bacterial transformation
1	5	Tues Feb 28	BE	YSN	Examine candidate clones
1	6	Thurs Mar 2	BE	YSN	Restriction map+ Article Discussion/Tissue Culture
1	7	Tues Mar 7	BE	YSN	Lipofection
1	6	Thurs Mar 9	BE	YSN	FACS analysis
2	1	Tues Mar 14	NK	MF	Tools for protein engineering
2	2	Thurs Mar 16	NK	MF	Assessing beta-galactosidase
2	3	Tues Mar 21	NK	MF	Purifying beta-galactosidase
2	4	Thurs Mar 23	NK	MF	Student presentations
		Spring Break Mar 27-31
3	1	Tues Apr 4	DE	RS	Tools for systems engineering
3	2	Thurs Apr 6	DE	RS	Basic bacterial photography: black and white
3	3	Tues Apr 11	DE	RS	Advanced bacterial photography: 2 color
3	4	Thurs Apr 13	DE	RS	Device characterization
		Patriot's day holiday April 17-18
3	5	Thurs Apr 20	DE	RS	Measuring DNA, RNA, protein
3	6	Tues Apr 25	DE	RS	RT-PCR data analysis
4	1	Thurs Apr 27	AB	EH	Panning for gold binders
4	2	Tues May 2	AB	EH	Screen library for gold binders/Optimizing panning
4	3	Thurs May 4	AB	EH	Rescreen library/Discuss journal articles
4	4	Tues May 9	AB	EH	PCR candidates/Discuss lab report assignment
4	5	Thurs May 11	AB	EH	Analyze sequence data
4	6	Tues May 16	AB	EH	Student presentations
		Thurs May 18 Last day of classes, lecture only