CHE.496/2008/Schedule
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Module 1 - Fundamentals of synthetic biology
- Jan 17 - Course introduction
- Jan 22 - Synthetic biology overview
- Jan 24 - Foundational technologies
- Jan 29 - Engineering principles
- Jan 31 - Practical applications
Module 2 - Part, device & system design
- Feb 5 - Biobricks and design overview
- Feb 7 - Genetic programming
- Feb 12 - Synthetic genes, biological machines, and minimal genomes
- Feb 14 - Case studies in synthetic biology
Module 3 - Engineered biological systems
- Feb 19 - Final project discussion
- Feb 21 - Genetic circuit engineering
- Feb 26 - Metabolic pathway engineering
- Feb 28 - Biological network 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 online databases
- Mar 20 - Systems biology and the 'omic sciences
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 - Social, legal and ethical implications
- Apr 8 - Biological safety and security
- 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