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