Harvard:SysBio 204/2016:Syllabus

Day / Date	Lecturer	Title
Wed. Aug. 31	William Shih	Biomolecular primitives
Mon. Sep. 5	N/A	University Holiday (Labor Day)
Wed. Sep. 7	William Shih	Software demo: nanoEngineer for nanostructure visualization
Mon. Sept. 12	Willian Shih	DNA origami
Wed. Sept. 14	William Shih	Software demo: caDNAno for DNA origami design
Mon. Sept. 19	Peng Yin	DNA bricks
Wed. Sept. 21	Peng Yin	DNA circuits and machines
Mon. Sept. 26	Peng Yin	Software demo: sequence designer/ molecular compiler
Wed. Sept. 28	Peng Yin	Barcoding and imaging life with DNA
Mon. Oct. 3	Peng Yin	Probing and programming life with DNA/RNA
Wed. Oct. 5	Peng Yin	DNA-based nanofoundries
Mon. Oct. 10	N/A	University Holiday (Columbus Day)
Wed. Oct. 12	George Church	Genome engineering
Mon. Oct. 17	William Shih	DNA-based single molecule tools
Wed. Oct. 19	Jeff Way	Synthetic circuits in living cells
Mon. Oct. 24	George Church	Homologous recombination, gene therapy, tissue engineering, evolution
Wed. Oct. 26	Jeff Way	Engineered Protein Pharmaceuticals
Mon. Oct. 31	William Shih	In vitro Evolution
Wed. Nov. 2	Jeremy Gunawardena	Modeling biological systems
Mon. Nov. 7	Johan Paulsson	Designing synthetic gene circuits for precise and robust dynamics
Wed. Nov. 9	Jack Szostak	Protocell design (Veteran's day, class in session)
Mon. Nov. 14	Gäel McGill	Biovisualization Tools & Design: Communication, Data Exploration & Mental Models
Wed. Nov. 16	Mohammad Shahjamali	Isotropic and Anisotropic Nanoparticle Superlattice engineering, Merging DNA Origami with Nanoparticle Superlattice
Mon. Nov. 21	Wesley Wong	TBD
Wed. Nov. 23	N/A	Thanksgiving recess begins
Mon. Nov. 28	Ed Boyden	Tools for Analyzing and Controlling Biological Systems
Wed. Nov. 30	Students	Final project presentations