Harvard:SysBio 204/2015:Syllabus

Day / Date	Lecturer	Title
Wed. Sept. 2	William Shih	Biomolecular primitives
Mon. Sept. 7	N/A	University Holiday (Labor Day)
Wed. Sept. 9	William Shih	Software demo: nanoEngineer for nanostructure visualization
Mon. Sept. 14	Willian Shih	DNA origami
Wed. Sept. 16	William Shih	Software demo: caDNAno for DNA origami design
Mon. Sept. 21	Peng Yin	DNA bricks
Wed. Sept. 23	Peng Yin	DNA circuits and machines
Mon. Sept. 28	Peng Yin	Software demo: sequence designer/ molecular compiler
Wed. Sept. 30	Peng Yin	Application 1: Barcoding and imaging life with DNA
Mon. Oct. 5	Peng Yin	Application 2: Probing and programming life with DNA/RNA
Wed. Oct. 7	Peng Yin	Application 3: DNA-based nanofoundries
Mon. Oct. 12	N/A	University Holiday (Columbus Day)
Wed. Oct. 14	William Shih	Application 4: Single molecule biophysics tools, drug delivery, NMR
Mon. Oct. 19	William Shih	In vitro evolution
Wed. Oct. 21	Pam Silver	Synthetic circuits in prokaryotes
Mon. Oct. 26	Pam Silver	Synthetic circuits in eukaryotes
Wed. Oct. 28	Jeff Way	Therapeutic protein engineering
Mon. Nov. 2	George Church	Genome engineering
Wed. Nov. 4	George Church	Homologous recombination, gene therapy, tissue engineering, evolution
Mon. Nov. 9	Jack Szostak	Protocell design
Wed. Nov. 11	Jeremy Gunawardena	Modeling biological systems (Veteran's day, class in session)
Mon. Nov. 16	Gäel McGill	Exploring Hollywood’s tool for bio-visualization
Wed. Nov. 18	Jeff Way	Quantitative and spatial optimization of engineered therapeutic fusion proteins
Mon. Nov. 23	Johan Paulsson	Designing synthetic gene circuits for precise and robust dynamics
Wed. Nov. 25	N/A	Thanksgiving recess begins
Mon. Nov. 30	Students	Final project presentations
Wed. Dec. 2	Students	Final project presentations