Harvard:Biophysics 101/2007


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 * '''May 3: Final presentation
 * '''April 26: Post your plan for May 1 & 3.
 * '''April 19: Post your plan for April 24 & 26.

Course overview
Focuses on modern technologies with exponential growth and their impact on global quality of life through weekly updated Wiki class project (in-depth case studies on personal genomics and/or biofuels). Integrating knowledge, tools for research, and commercial decision-making concerning new aspects of bioengineering, personalized medicine, genetically modified organisms, and stem cells. Interplays of biophysical, ecological, economic, and social/ethical modeling will be explored through multi-disciplinary teams of students, and individual brief reports.

Potential course projects
Earth 2.0
 * Analytic: Bioweather map. Collection and use of real-time assays to track virus outbreaks, etc.
 * Synthetic: Bioenergy. Integrated metabolic, genetic, economic, process, environmental modeling.

H. sapiens 2.0
 * Analytic: Personal Genome Project. What could we do with a ten (or a million) full genome (or exome) sequences?
 * Synthetic: Cell therapies – See http://www.synberc.org/testbeds.html#cancerkiller for more info

Logistics

 * Meeting time: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00—11:30 am
 * First class Thu 1-Feb-2007.
 * Location: Barker Center, Room 316
 * No exams
 * No prerequisites
 * Grading
 * 25% Participation
 * 25% Personal wiki page (weekly assignments)
 * 50% Contribution to group project

Background Info and previous class projects

 * 2005
 * 2003 and earlier