[bioundgrd] 7.46/7.86 Building with Cells!

[Joshua Stone]

Dear Students,

I invite you to join the second year of our new course - Building with Cells.
Cells build everything! What they build is extraordinarily complex – constructing a multicellular organism like a human is the greatest engineering project of all time. How do cells do this, again and again, with such efficiency? What processes tell cells what types to become? How do cells know to work together and build an organ? How can we control cells to construct what is useful – from replacement body parts, to embryos without parents, to ‘designer’ cells? Is it ethically okay to build with cells?

In BwC we will explore these important questions, through interactive lectures, through reading the latest, groundbreaking literature, and through a project on a fascinating topic of your choice (no final exam).  For undergraduates, the pre-reqs are 7.03 and 7.05, or by permission of instructor. Tu/Th 11.30-1 26-204. Recitation TBD.

Please contact me with your questions and I look forward to a wonderful semester.
Best regards. Prof. Sive.
sive at wi.mit.edu<mailto:sive at wi.mit.edu>


Hazel Sive Ph.D.
Member: Whitehead Institute | Professor: MIT Biology
Director: MIT-Africa | Founding Director: J-WEL Higher Education
455 Main Street Cambridge MA 02142 USA
T: 617-258-8242  F: 617-258-5578  E: sive at wi.mit.edu<mailto:sive at wi.mit.edu>


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