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<span style="line-height: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">20.305[J] Principles of Synthetic Biology</span></div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;line-height:1.38">Do you like biology, biotechnology, or genetic engineering? Are you interested in computer science, engineering, or design? Synthetic
Biology is an innovative field bringing together these subject areas and many more to create useful tools to solve everyday problems.</span><br>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;line-height:1.38">This introductory synthetic biology course starts with a brief overview of the field and then delves into more challenging yet exciting
concepts. You will learn how to design your very own biological regulatory circuits and consider ways in which you can apply these circuits to real-world problems we face today.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">From basic oscillators, toggle switches, and band-pass filters to more sophisticated circuits that build upon these devices, you
will learn what synthetic biologists of today are currently constructing and how these circuits can be used in interesting and novel ways.</font></span></div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Join us as we explore the field of synthetic biology: its past, present, and promising future!
</span><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;line-height:normal">Undergraduate and graduate students from all backgrounds welcome.</span></font></div>
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expression and protein activity</font></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; "><span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">How to design basic biological circuits</font></span></div>
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regulatory networks</font></span></div>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Basic ODE modeling of biological systems with MATLAB</font></span></li></ul>
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:15px">20.305[J] is the same subject as </span><a href="http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m6b.html#6.580" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;line-height:15px">6.580[J]</a> and <span style="line-height:15px">meets
with </span><a href="http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m6b.html#6.589" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;line-height:15px">6.589[J]</a><span style="line-height:15px">, </span><a href="http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m20a.html#20.405" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;line-height:15px">20.405[J]</a><br>
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:15px">Prereqs: None </span><br style="line-height:15px">
<span style="line-height:15px">Units: 3-0-9 </span><br style="line-height:15px">
<span style="line-height:15px">Offered: Fall 2015, </span><i style="line-height:15px">TR11-12.30</i><span style="line-height:15px"> (</span><a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=9" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none;line-height:15px">9-057</a><span style="line-height:15px">) </span><i style="line-height:15px">+
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<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:15px">Instructors: Ron Weiss (MIT), Adam Arkin (UC Berkeley)</span></font></div>
<div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">20.305[J] counts as a Course 20 REST requirement.</span></font></div>
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