[bioundgrd] New Biology Subjects for 2024-2025: 7.36/7.91, 7.38/7.83, & 7.C01

[Joshua Stone]

Dear Students,

The biology department is offering new subjects for 2024-2025. We'd like to highlight the following new subjects below.

https://student.mit.edu/catalog/index.cgi

FALL 2024

7.36/7.91
The CRISPR revolution:  Engineering the Genome for Basic Science and Clinical Medicine
Faculty: Francisco Sanchez-Rivera, Jonathan Weissman
TR11:30-1
Provides a conceptual and technical understanding of genome editing systems and their research and clinical applications. Focuses on fundamental CRISPR biology in bacteria, methodologies for manipulating the genome with CRISPR, and the application of genome engineering in research and medicine. Combines lectures and literature discussions with critical analysis and assigned readings, with the goal of better understanding how key discoveries were made and how these are applied in the real work. Class work includes brief writing assignments as well as a final research proposal and scientific presentation.

7.38/7.83
Design Principles of Biological Systems
Faculty: Daniel Lev, Hari Wong
T 1-2:30, F3:30-5
Introduces students to biological control mechanisms governing decision-making and tools to decipher, model, and perturb these mechanisms. Systems presented include signal transduction, cell cycle control, developmental biology, and the immune system. These systems provide examples of feedback and feedforward control, oscillators, kinetic proofreading, spatial and temporal averaging, and pattern formation.


SPRING 2025
7.C01
Machine Learning in Molecular and Cellular Biology
Faculty: C. Coley, J. Davis, E. Fraenkel, R. Gomez-Bombarelli
Time TBD
Introduces machine learning as a tool to understand natural biological systems, with an evolving emphasis on problems in molecular and cellular biology that are being actively advanced using machine learning. Students design, implement, and interpret machine learning approaches to aid in predicting protein structure, probing protein structure/function relationships, and imaging biological systems at scales ranging from the atomic to cellular. Students taking graduate version complete an additional project-based assignment. Students cannot receive credit without simultaneous completion of 6.C01.
C. Coley, J. Davis, E. Fraenkel, R. Gomez-Bombarelli



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Joshua Stone
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