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CHE.496: Biological Systems Design Seminar

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This site is under development and this course is just a proposal at this point in time.

Module 1 - Fundamentals of engineering biology

  • Jan 17 - Introduction to the course and OpenWetWare
  • Jan 22 - DNA, RNA, and proteins (molecular biology primer)
  • Jan 24 - Biochemistry and metabolism
  • Jan 29 - Genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology
  • Jan 31 - Biological system fabrication

Module 2 - Standardized biological parts & system design

  • Feb 5 - Genetic programming and design overview
  • Feb 7 - Foundational technologies
  • Feb 12 - Biobricks
  • Feb 14 - Synthetic biological systems (case studies)

Module 3 - Genetic circuit & metabolic pathway engineering

  • Feb 19 - Genes and signals
  • Feb 21 - Genetic circuit engineering
  • Feb 26 - Metabolic pathway engineering
  • Feb 28 - Protein engineering

Module 4 - Bioinformatics & systems biology

  • Mar 4 - Spring break
  • Mar 6 - Spring break
  • Mar 11 - Oral presentations of literature research
  • Mar 13 - Oral presentations of literature research
  • Mar 18 - Bioinformatics and the omic sciences
  • Mar 20 - Online databases

Module 5 - Computational biology & system modeling

  • Mar 25 - Mathematical biology
  • Mar 27 - Genome-scale metabolic models
  • Apr 1 - Modeling genetic regulatory networks
  • Apr 3 - Systems biotechnology

Module 6 - Safety, ethics, policy and business

  • Apr 8 - Biological safety, security and policy
  • Apr 10 - Bioethics
  • Apr 15 - Ownership and sharing
  • Apr 17 - Bio-business
  • Apr 22 - Oral presentations of original project design
  • Apr 24 - Oral presentations of original project design
  • Apr 29 - Review of course