Biophysics 101
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MIT-OCW HST.508 now HST.510 and Harvard Biophysics 101
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Genomics, Computing, Economics, and Society
This course will focus on understanding aspects of modern technology displaying exponential growth curves and the impact on global quality of life through a weekly updated class project integrating knowledge and providing practical tools for political and business decision-making concerning new aspects of bioengineering, personalized medicine, genetically modified organisms, and stem cells. Interplays of economic, ethical, ecological, and biophysical modeling will be explored through multi-disciplinary teams of students, and individual brief reports.
Announcements
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Readings
Lectures
Projects
Software
People
| Students | |||||
| Jason Leith | Chiki Gupta | Matthew Meisel | Mark Kaganovich | Morten Sommer | Jeffrey Yip |
| Teaching Fellows | |||||
| Shawn Douglas | Jeremy Zucker | Lakshmanan Iyer | Alexander Wait | ||
| Instructor | |||||
| George Church |
Schedule
Tasks
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Course Format
This year will emphasize one coherent team project (in contrast to the 2000-2003 focus on problem sets then a small project at the end). This will be facilitated by a shared wiki and class discussion (including round robin to make sure all voices are heard).
Grading
- 25% participation
- 25% personal wiki page (weekly assignments)
- 25% contribution to group project/ article
- 25% peer evaluations
(No exams; no prerequisites.)
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