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<div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear course 7, 5-7, 6-7 students, biology faculty,</div><div dir="auto" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Greetings to everyone. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">FALL 2020</b></div><div class="">Friday, Aug 14<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pre-registration ends</div><div class="">Monday, Aug 24<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Registration opens</div><div class="">Monday, Aug 31<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Registration Day</div><div class="">Tues, Sept 1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>First day of classes*</div><div class="">Mon, Sept 7<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Labor Day</div><div class="">Friday, Oct 2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Add Date</div><div class="">Mon, Oct 12<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Columbus Day </div><div class="">Wed, Nov 11<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Veteran’s Day</div><div class="">Wed, Nov 18<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Drop date</div><div class="">Sat Nov 21<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thanksgiving break begins^</div><div class="">Sun, Nov 29<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thanksgiving break ends</div><div class="">Wed, Dec 9<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Last day of classes</div><div class="">Mon Dec 14<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>First day of final exams (all remote)</div><div class="">Friday, Dec 18<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Last day of final exams (all remote)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">*All MIT instruction will be delivered remotely during the first week of classes. Biology classes in the fall, except for labs, will be offered on-line.</div><div class="">^Students will not return after Thanksgiving break and instruction will be remote through the last day of classes on December 9.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">Biology lab requirements</b></div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">7.002 Fundamentals of Experimental Molecular Biology and 7.003 Applied Molecular Biology Laboratory will be offered in-person in the fall.</li><li class="">Seniors who are not allowed on campus and need to complete 7.002/7.003 in the fall should contact the Biology education office (<a href="mailto:jdchang@mit.edu" class="">jdchang@mit.edu</a>)</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">UROPS</b></div></div><div class="">UROP site: <a href="https://urop.mit.edu/" class="">https://urop.mit.edu</a></div><div class="">Students living on campus can do in-person UROPs. For those off campus, remote UROPs are possible. Contact faculty members to arrange UROPs.</div><div class=""><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85098); font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b class="">New restricted elective spring courses 7.093 and 7.094 replace 7.09</b></div><div class="">The department is offering two new quantitative biology half semester subjects that replace 7.09 Quantitative and Computational Biology.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">7.093 and 7.094 together fulfill the biology restricted elective requirement.</div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">7.093/7.573 Modern Biostatistics</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;">2-0-4 Spring H3. Prereq: 7.03 and 7.05</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Description</span></i><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">: </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Introduction to probability and statistics used in modern biology. Discrete and continuous probability distributions, statistical modeling, hypothesis testing, Bayesian statistics, independence, conditional probability, Markov chains, methods for data visualization, clustering, principal components analysis, nonparametric methods, Monte Carlo simulations, false discovery rate. Applications to DNA, RNA, and protein sequence analysis, genetics, genomics. Homeworks will involve the R programming language, but prior programming experience is not required. Students registered for the graduate version do an additional project, applying biostatistical methods to data from their research. </span><i class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">(C. Burge, A. Jain)</span></i></p><div class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br class=""></span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">7.094/7.574</span></span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> <span class="">Modern Computational Biology</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">2-0-4 Spring H4. Prereq: 7.03 and 7.05 <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Introduction to modern methods in computational biology, focusing on DNA/RNA/protein sequence analysis. Topics coved include next-gen DNA sequencing and sequencing data analysis, RNA-seq (bulk and single-cell), ribosome profiling, and proteomics. </span><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Students registered for the graduate version do an additional project, applying bioinformatic methods to data from their research. <i class="">(A. Jain, G.W. Li)</i></span><i class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><i class=""><br class=""></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Best wishes and take care.</span></font></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class=""> </span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div><div class="">Sincerely,</div><div class="">Janice</div></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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