[bioundgrd] ANNOUNCEMENT: New Biology restricted electives for 2015-2016 (7.45, 7.09, 7.371)

[Joyce Roberge]

Dear Biology Majors,

Pre-registration for Fall 2015 is underway, and the deadline is June 15th. Please consider the new restricted elective for the fall, The Hallmarks of Cancer (7.45). Also, keep in mind the new courses that will be offered in Spring 2016: Quantitative and Computation Biology (7.09), and Biological and Engineering Principles Underlying Novel Biotherapeutics (7.371).  Again, any of these subject counts for the Biology requirement of three restricted electives.

Best wishes,
Joyce


FALL 2015

7.45 The Hallmarks of Cancer
(New)
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[Undergrad] ([Fall])
(Subject meets with 7.85<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m7a.html#7.85>)
Prereq: 7.06<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m7a.html#7.06>
Units: 4-0-8
[Add to schedule]<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/editcookie.cgi?add=7.45> Lecture: TR11-12.30 (E25-111<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=E25>)
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Provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of cancer biology and cancer treatment. Topics include cancer genetics, genomics, and epigenetics; familial cancer syndromes; signal transduction, cell cycle control, and apoptosis; cancer metabolism; stem cells and cancer; metastasis; cancer immunology and immunotherapy; conventional and molecularly-targeted therapies; and early detection and prevention. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.
T. Jacks, M. Vander Heiden


SPRING 2016

7.09 Quantitative and Computational Biology
(New)
[______]
[Undergrad] ([Spring])
Prereq: 7.03<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m7a.html#7.03>, 7.05<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m7a.html#7.05>
Units: 3-0-9
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Quantitative and computational analysis of biological systems at the molecular and cellular level. Includes models of biological processes across different time scales, from steady-state to kinetics of gene expression, circadian clock, cell growth, and evolutionary dynamics. Methods include physical, systems, and synthetic biology. Also covers second-generation sequencing technologies, and topics in computational analysis of genomes, including sequence alignment, motif finding, information theory and RNA secondary structure prediction.
C. Burge, G. W. Li


7.371 Biological and Engineering Principles Underlying Novel Biotherapeutics
(New)
[______]
[Undergrad] ([Fall])
Prereq: 7.06<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m7a.html#7.06>
Units: 4-0-8
Credit cannot also be received for 7.37<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m7a.html#7.37>, 10.441<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m10a.html#10.441>, 20.361<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/m20a.html#20.361>
[Add to schedule]<http://student.mit.edu/catalog/editcookie.cgi?add=7.371> Lecture: MW3-5 (WI 7TH<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=WI%207TH>)
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Covers biological and bioengineering principles underlying the development and therapeutic use of recombinant proteins and immune cells. Special attention to monoclonal antibodies and engineered immune system cells as therapeutics; protein- and glyco- engineering to enhance protein function; protein pharmacology and delivery; nucleic acid- based biotherapeutics; generation of functional cells and tissues from embryonic stem cells and iPS cells; and macrophages in health and diseases.
J. Chen, H. Lodish

Joyce Roberge
Undergraduate Program
Biology Education Office 68-120
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-4718
fax: 617-258-9329
email: roberge at mit.edu<mailto:roberge at mit.edu>



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