Syllabus
| Week | Date | Lecture Topic | New Concepts (Greycen) | Skill Building (Yufei) | Campbell's Chapters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 9/21/24 | History and Digestion | Pentose Phosphate Pathway | Histology | 40 |
| 22 | 9/28/24 | Digestion and Excretion | Nutrient Metabolism | PET, CAT, and MRI Scanning | 41, 44 |
| 23 | 10/5/24 | Circulation and Respiration | Cardiac, kidney, andRespiratory Math | EKGs | 42 |
| 24 | 10/12/24 | Immune System | Blood Histology and Hematology | Mouse Models | 43 |
| 25 | 10/19/24 | Endocrine System | Glucose Metabolism | Paper Review | 45 |
| 26 | 10/26/24 | Reproductive System | IVF | Cell Lineage Tracing | 46 |
| 27 | 11/2/24 | Development | Drosophila Development | Embryonic Manipulation | 47 |
| 28 | 11/9/24 | Nervous System 1 | Neuronal Ion Channels | iPSCs | 48 |
| 29 | 11/16/24 | Nervous System 2 | Greycen's Choice | fMRI | 49 |
| 30 | 11/23/24 | Sensory and Motor Systems | Pediatric Biology or Brain Disease | Voltage Clamping | 50 |
| 31 | 11/30/24 |
Anatomy and Physiology Review |
Muscle Physics |
Paper Review (Case Study) |
NA |
| 32 | 12/7/24 | Plant Development | Mr. Stele yo girl | Plant Histology | 35 |
| 33 | 12/14/24 | Plant Transport and Nutrition | Vascular Math | Chromatography | 36, 37 |
| 34 | 12/21/24 | Plant Hormones | Hormone Synthesis | Protoplast Formation and plant transformation | 38 |
| 35 | 12/28/24 | Plant Technologies | Agriculture | Selective Breeding | 39 |
| 36 | 1/4/25 | Plants Review | Quantum Yield | Paper Review | NA |
| 37 | 1/11/25 | Ethology | Optimal Foraging Theory | Game Theory | 51 |
| 38 | 1/18/25 | Ecology I | Lotka-Volterra | Cohort Tables | 52-54 |
| 39 | 1/25/25 | Ecology II | Production and Productivity | eDNA | 55,56 |
| 40 | 2/1/25 | Overall Review | Final Tips | Paper Review | NA |
*Syllabus is tentative
*Times are in EST
| Week | Date | Lecture Topic | New Concepts (Greycen) | Skill Building (Jasper) | Campbell's Chapters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5/4/24 | Introduction to Biology | Stories, Strategies, and Chem part 1 | How to read a graph (and a paper) | 1 |
| 2 | 5/11/24 | Biochemistry | Chemistry Review Part 2 | Cell Culture | 2–5 |
| 3 | 5/18/24 | Cell Biology | Kinetics | Microscopy | 6–7 |
| 4 | 5/25/24 | Catabolism | Catalysis and basic reaction mechanisms | Flow Cytometry | 8–9 |
| 5 | 6/1/24 | Anabolism | Lipid biochemistry and diversity | Pulse Chase Experiments | 10 |
| 6 | 6/8/24 | Cell Communication | Signaling | FRET, FRAP and Related Techniques | 10 |
| 7 | 6/15/24 | Biochem and Cell Bio Review | Protein synthesis and degradation | Paper Review | N/A |
| 8 | 6/22/24 | Classical Genetics | Cell compartmentalization and trafficking | PCR and DNA Quantification | 14–15 |
| 9 | 6/29/24 | Molecular Basis of Genetics | Cell movement and contraction | Gene Editing and Knockout | 16–18 |
| 10 | 7/6/24 | Laboratory Techniques | Cell cycle and division | Blotting and Electrophoresis (So Blong-t and Thanks for all theFISH) | 20 |
| 11 | 7/13/24 | Population Genetics | DNA repair and recombination | GWAS | 21, 23 |
| 12 | 7/20/24 | Genetics and Mol Bio Review | Cancer | Paper Review | N/A |
| 13 | 7/27/24 | Evolution and Speciation | Cell Death | Sequence Alignment and BLAST | 22, 24 |
| 14 | 8/3/24 | Phylogeny and Taxonomy | Chromatography | Microarrays and RNA Seq | 25–26 |
| 15 | 8/10/24 | Microbes and Viruses | Quantitative Genetics | Mutagenesis | 19, 27 |
| 16 | 8/17/24 | Protists and Fungi | Intro to Statistics | Paper Review | 28, 31 |
| 17 | 8/24/24 | Plant Diversity | HIV | Protoplast Formation | 29–30 |
| 18 | 8/31/24 | Introduction to Animals | Epidemiology | Spatial Seq | 32 |
| 19 | 9/7/24 | More Animals | Tetrad Analysis | Superintendent Component Analysis | 33 |
| 20 | 9/14/24 | Diversity Review | Invertebrate Dissections | Paper Review | N/A |