Harvard:SysBio 204/2011:Syllabus

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Date	Presenter(s)	Topic
Wed. Aug. 31	William Shih/Peng Yin	Course Overview
Mon. Sept. 5	NO CLASS	LABOR DAY
Wed. Sept. 7	William Shih	Biomolecular primitives
Mon. Sept. 12	William Shih	DNA origami
Wed. Sept. 14	David Zhang	Synthetic DNA circuits
Mon. Sept. 19	Peng Yin	Dynamic DNA machines
Wed. Sept. 21	Peng Yin	Applications of nucleic acid nanotechnology
Mon. Sept. 26	Wiliam Shih/John Sadowski	Software demo: nanoEngineer for nanostructure visualization
Wed. Sept. 28	William Shih	Software demo: caDNAno for DNA origami design
Mon. Oct. 3	Peng Yin/Adam Marblestone/Casey Grun	Software demo: sequence designer/molecular compiler
Wed. Oct. 5	Vatsan Raman	Computational protein design
Mon. Oct. 10	NO CLASS	COLUMBUS DAY
Wed. Oct. 12	Vatsan Raman	Software demo: Scientific discovery games for biomolecular design
Mon. Oct. 17	Pam Silver	Synthetic circuits in prokaryotes
Wed. Oct. 19	Pam Silver	Synthetic circuits in eukaryotes
Mon. Oct. 24	Jeff Way	Metabolic engineering
Wed. Oct. 26	Neel Joshi	Principles and applications of protein and peptide self-assembly
Mon. Oct. 31	George Church	Genome engineering: new codes, new amino acids, multi-virus resistance
Wed. Nov. 2	George Church	Homologous recombination, gene therapy, tissue engineering, evolution.
Mon. Nov. 7	Irene Chen	Information in prebiotic replicating systems
Wed. Nov. 9	students	Midterm youtube presentations
Mon. Nov. 14	Jack Szostak	Protocell design
Wed. Nov. 16	Jeremy Gunawardena	Modeling biological systems
Mon. Nov. 21	NO CLASS	WYSS RETREAT
Wed. Nov. 23	NO CLASS	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
Mon. Nov. 28	Gael McGill	Exploring Hollywood's tools for biovisualization
Wed. Nov. 30	William Shih	Directed molecular evolution
Mon. Dec. 5	students	Final presentations
Wed. Dec. 7	students	Final presentations