Course Information for Spring 2013
Time: TR 9:30-10:45
Place: Roberts 225
Final Exam (oral presentations): Friday, May 17th, 1:30 pm
Instructor Information
Prof. Stephanie R. Taylor (srtaylor
)
Office: Roberts 224D
Email: s r taylor _at_ colby _dot_ edu
Office hours: M 1:30-3:30, T 2-5, F 1-3
Course Description
In this course, you will apply principles learned in Systems Biology I to a particular biological system. You will be working in an interdisciplinary team to complete a semester-long project. This will involve reading journal articles, designing and running numerical experiments, and analyzing results. Throughout the semester, you will be presenting challenges and results. The course will culminate in both a poster presentation and a comprehensive journal-article styled report and oral presentation.
Useful Links
- PubMed - a database of journal article abstracts. This is a great place to find papers on a particular topic (I frequently search with the terms "circadian synchronization")
- NCBI's Bookshelf's searchable version of Molecular Biology of the Cell 4/e - on-line version of a classic textbook (note that this is not the most recent edition)
- SystemsBiology.org - a portal site for systems biology
- systems biology @ nature.com Nature's Systems Biology website
- Molecular Systems Biology - Nature's open access journal on molecular systems biology (this contains some great articles)
- BioModels.net - a database of mathematical models of biological systems
- SBML . org - website for the Systems Biology Markup Language
- SBGN . org - website for the Systems Biology Graphical Notation
- The Medical Biochemistry Page - a page containing accessible descriptions of various aspects of medical biochemstry.
- MATLAB - the commercial programming environment frequently used for numerical computing
- Clarkson's MATLAB Tutorial