Below is the lecture schedule. All lectures are in 106 Spalding starting at 1:00 pm, except where noted. The lecture topics/lecturer is subject to change, but the dates and times are set. Some lectures have required readings that must be done before lecture. PDFs of the reading material are linked to in the schedule and will be updated as the term progresses. Those marked with an asterisk require a reading memo.
Scheduled office hours for the TAs to help you with your homework are Fridays from 3:00pm to 4:30pm in 106 Spalding
Due dates
- Th 10/25: Homework 1 due
- Th 11/08: Homework 2 due
- We 11/21: Homework 3 due by 10 PM
- Th 12/06: Homework 4 due
- Fr 12/14: News and Views due at 5 PM
Lecture Schedule
- L1: Tu 10/02: (FHA) Overview of biomolecular design
- L2: Th 10/04: (NP)
- Cameron, Bashor, Collins, 2014 (optional)
- Huang, Boyken, Baker, 2016 (optional)
- Pinheiro, et al., 2011 (optional)
- Zhang and Seelig, 2011 (optional)
- L3: Tu 10/09: (NP)
- L4: Th 10/11: (NP)
- L5: Tu 10/16: (NP)
- L6: Th 10/18: (NP)
- L7: Tu 10/23: (NP)
- L8: Th 10/25: (NP)
- L9: Tu 10/30: (NP)
- L10: Th 11/01: (NP)
- L11: Tu 11/06: (FHA)
- L11: Th 11/08: (FHA)
- L13: Tu 11/13: Special guest lecture from Jens Nielsen
- L14: Th 11/15: (FHA)
- L15: Tu 11/20: (FHA)
- L16: Tu 11/27: (ZW) Introduction to Gaussian processes (lecture notes)
- L17: Th 11/29: Special guest lecture from Possu Huang
- L18: Tu 12/04: (FHA)
- L19: Th 12/06: The nuts and bolts of directed evolution (ZW)