Harvard:SysBio 204/2013:Syllabus

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Day / Date	Lecturer	Title
Wed. Sep. 4	William Shih	Biomolecular primitives
Mon. Sep. 9	William Shih	Software demo: nanoEngineer for nanostructure visualization
Wed. Sep. 11	William Shih	DNA origami
Mon. Sep. 16	William Shih	Software demo: caDNAno for DNA origami design
Wed. Sep. 18	Peng Yin	DNA circuits and machines (note: class held in room 221)
Mon. Sep. 23	Peng Yin	DNA bricks
Wed. Sep. 25	Peng Yin	Software demo: Sequence designer / molecular compiler
Mon. Sep. 30	Srivatsan Raman	Computational protein design
Mon. Oct. 2	Srivatsan Raman	Software demo: Scientific discovery games for biomolecular design
Mon. Oct. 7	William Shih	Application of nucleic acid nanotechnology 1: Single molecule biophysics tools, drug delivery, NMR
Wed. Oct. 9	Peng Yin	Application of nucleic acid nanotechnology 2: Sensing, imaging, synthetic regulation, nanofabrication
Wed. Oct. 16	Pam Silver	Synthetic circuits in prokaryotes (note: class held in room 221)
Mon. Oct. 21	Pam Silver	Synthetic circuits in eukaryotes
Wed. Oct. 23	Jeff Way	Metabolic engineering
Mon. Oct. 28	Jack Szostak	Protocell design
Wed. Oct. 30	Jeremy Gunawardena	Modeling biological systems
Mon. Nov. 4	William Shih	Directed molecular evolution
Wed. Nov. 6	George Church	Homologous recombination, gene therapy, tissue engineering, evolution
Wed. Nov. 13	Peng Yin	DNA directed nanofabrication/RNA synthetic biology
Wed. Nov. 20	Gäel McGill	Exploring Hollywood’s tools for bio-visualization (note: class held in room 221)
Mon. Nov. 25	Dave Mooney	Polymers as therapeutic cancer vaccines
Mon. Dec. 2	TBA	TBA
Wed. Dec. 4	Students	Final project presentations (note: class held in room 221)