VCU/Courses/Synthetic Biology Fundamentals/Schedule

Module 1 - Introduction

• Aug 24 - Synthetic Biology Overview
• Aug 26 - Enabling Technologies and Principles

Module 3 - Design

• Aug 31 - Biological Systems
• Sep 02 - Genetic Programming
• Sep 07 - no class
• Sep 09 - Standardized Parts and Higher-level Design
• Sep 14 - Lab: Transformation - Purification I
• Sep 16 - Lab: Transformation - Purification II

Module 2 - Synthesis

• Sep 21 - Genetic Engineering Work Flow
• Sep 23 - BioBrick Assembly
• Sep 28 - Metabolic Pathways
• Sep 30 - DNA Fabrication and Codon Optimization
• Oct 05 - Genetic Circuits
• Oct 07 - Presentation I: Review of a synthetic biology project
• Oct 12 - Lab: Separation, Construction and Implementation I
• Oct 14 - no class

Module 2 - Analysis

• Oct 19 - Project discussion
• Oct 21 - Lab: Separation, Construction and Implementation II
• Oct 26 - Transcriptomics
• Oct 28 -  ??
• Nov 02 - Proteomics
• Nov 04 - Metabolomics
• Nov 09 - Lab: Flow cytometry
• Nov 11 -  ??

Module 3 - Modeling

• Nov 16 - Constraint-based modeling
• Nov 18 - Dynamic modeling
• Nov 23 - Lab: Bacterial photography
• Nov 25 - No class (read instead)
• Nov 30 - Presentation II: Design of a synthetic biological System
• Dec 02 - Course Review