Part 1 Training for biologists
Ordinary differential equations
- Introduction
- Basic concepts to understand an ODE
- Description and properties of ODE
- Solving ODE
- Vector spaces
- Dynamic systems
Control theory
- Introduction
- Types od controllers
- Block diagram
- Example of control
- Laplace transform and transfer function
- Frequency domain
- Examples
Electronics
- Introduction
- Boolean algebras
- Logical gates
- Representation of boolean functions
- Karnaugh maps
Error Theory
- Introduction to measurement theory
- Error theroy description
- Types of errors
- Evaluation of the error in an experimental measurement
- Minimal square fit
- Obtaining relations from experimental data
Programming in Matlab
- Introduction to programming languages
- Basic MatLab operations
- Programming in Matlab
- Solving ODE with Matlab
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Part 2 Training for engineers
Cell
- Cell, definition
- Basic elements
- Eukaryotes
- Prokaryotes
- Metabolism
Flow of genetic information
- Elements
- Nucelic acid – DNA and RNA
- Amino acid – proteins
- Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
- Dogma, revisited
- Horizontal transference
Genetic regulation
- DNA regulation
- RNA regulation
- Protein regulation
- Global regulatory mechanisms:
Communication with environment
- Signal transduction
- Signal
- Receptor
- Transducer
- Actuator
- Examples
Kinetic Chemistry
- Definitions
- Law of mass action
- Enzyme-catalyzed reactions
- Hill equation: allosterism
- Hill equation in gene modelling
(Basic) Laboratory Techniques (of molecular biology)
- DNA cloning
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Gel electrophoresis
- Reading and writing DNA
- Molecular hybridization
- rewriting DNA: mutations
- arrays
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