CHE.496/2008/Schedule

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

Module 1 - Fundamentals of synthetic biology

• Jan 17 - Synthetic biology overview
• Jan 22 - Foundational technologies
• Jan 24 - Engineering principles
• Jan 29 - Biobricks and genetic programming
• Jan 31 - Bioinformatics and systems biology
• Feb 05 - Practical applications
• Feb 07 - Social implications
• Feb 12 - Oral presentations of individual literature research
• Feb 14 - Oral presentations of individual literature research

Module 2 - Engineered biological systems

• Feb 19 - Synthetic genes, biological machines, and minimal genomes
• Feb 21 - Dr. Craig Venter's minimal genome work
• Feb 26 - Dr. George Church's minimal cell work
• Feb 28 - Dr. Michael Elowitz's genetic circuit engineering work
• Mar 04 - Spring break
• Mar 06 - Spring break
• Mar 11 - Dr. Jim Collins' genetic circuit engineering work
• Mar 13 - Dr. Chris Voigt's genetic circuit engineering work
• Mar 18 - Dr. Jay Keasling's pathway engineering work
• Mar 20 - Oral presentations of individual part design
• Mar 25 - Oral presentations of individual part design

Module 3 - Modeling biological systems

• Mar 27 - Systems biology and the 'omic sciences
• Apr 01 - Computational biology
• Apr 03 - Metabolic flux analysis
• Apr 08 - Genome-scale metabolic models
• Apr 10 - Modeling genetic regulatory networks
• Apr 15 - Modeling genetic regulatory networks
• Apr 17 - Systems biotechnology
• Apr 22 - Oral presentations of group system design
• Apr 24 - Oral presentations of group system design
• Apr 29 - Review of course