Schedule

Below is the course schedule (which is subject to change).


Lecture schedule

M 03/28
(ME) 1. Introduction to biological circuit design
W 03/30
(JB) 2. The rate of changes in gene expression
F 04/01
(ME) 3. Bistability
M 04/04
(JB) 4. Cascades of gene regulation: Feedforward loops
W 04/06
(ME) 5. Dosage compensaion
F 04/08
(JB) 6. Exact adaptation
M 04/11
(UA) Uri Alon course, 3-5:30 in BIA
Tu 04/12
(UA) Uri Alon course, noon-2:30 in BIA
W 04/13
(UA) Uri Alon course, 3-5:30 in BIA
Th 04/14
(UA) Uri Alon course, noon-2:30 in BIA
F 04/15
No class
M 04/18
(ME) 7. Linear response
W 04/20
(JB) 8. Kinetic proofreading
F 04/22
(JB) 9I. The repressilator part I
F 04/22
(ME) 9I. The repressilator part II
W 04/27
(JB) 10. Delay oscillations
F 04/29
(ME) 11. Time-based regulation
M 05/02
(ME) 12. Molecular titration
W 05/04
(ME) 13. Promiscuous ligand-receptor binding
F 05/06
(ME) 14. Engineering multiple cell fates
M 05/09
(JB) 15. Stochastic gene expression
W 05/11
(JB) 16. Bursty gene expression
F 05/13
(ME) 17. Bet hedging and persistence
M 05/16
(JB) 18. Excitability and stochastic differentiation
W 05/18
(JB) 19. Control of cellular populations
F 05/20
(ME) 20. Patterning by lateral inhibition
M 05/23
(JB) 21. Turing patterns
W 05/25
(JB) 22. Scaling of spatial patterns
F 05/27
(ME) 23. The future of understanding and programming genetic circuitry