Design Principles of Biological Circuits

5 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Lecture, three hours; laboratory, four hours. Preparation: one year of undergraduate biology and calculus, one undergraduate statistics course, and one programming course (Python recommended). Quantitative analysis of genetic circuits that control behavior of biological systems, including prokaryotic model organisms and multicellular developmental systems. Introduction of basic principles of systems biology through specific examples. Application of these principles in designing synthetic genetic circuits. Concurrently scheduled with course C142. Letter grading.