CHE.496/2008/Schedule

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Module 1 - Fundamentals of synthetic biology

• Jan 17 - Synthetic biology overview
• Jan 22 - Foundational technologies
• Jan 24 - Engineering principles
• Jan 29 - Genetic programming
• Jan 31 - Synthetic genes and biological machines
• 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 - Engineering biological systems
• Feb 21 - RNA synthetic biology
• Feb 26 - Minimal genomes and cells
• Feb 28 - Minimal genomes and cells

• Mar 04 - Spring break
• Mar 06 - Spring break

• Mar 11 - Genetic circuit engineering
• Mar 13 - Genetic circuit engineering
• Mar 18 - Metabolic pathway engineering
• Mar 20 - Oral presentations of individual part design
• Mar 25 - Oral presentations of individual part design

Module 3 - Synthetic systems biology

• 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 - The future of synthetic biology
• Apr 22 - Oral presentations of group system design
• Apr 24 - Oral presentations of group system design
• Apr 29 - Review of course