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Biological Dynamics
APC/EEB/MOL 514, Fall 2002

Meets: Tuesdays, Thursdays, 2:40-4:00PM, starting Sept. 12
Lewis Thomas Laboratory Rm. 118


Computer Labs, Guyot Rm. 9B, Thursdays 1:00-2:30PM, starting Sept. 19

Questions? Email Jeff Moehlis , Course TA, at jmoehlis@math.princeton.edu

The course is coordinated by E. C. Cox , Dept. of Molecular Biology .

This course will roughly cover the same material as that covered in APC591 in Fall 2001. Please see the APC591, Fall 2001 webpage for the webpage for that course.

Unit 1: Action Potentials and Simple Neural Circuits
D. W. Tank, Depts. of Molecular Biology and Physics

Unit 2: Dynamics of Disease
J.B. Plotkin, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, and Institute for Advanced Studies, Program in Theoretical Biology

Unit 3: Intracellular Networks
W. S. Bialek, Dept. of Physics

Unit 4: Biological Pattern Formation
E. C. Cox , Dept. of Molecular Biology
S.Y. Shvartsman, Dept. of Chemical Engineering

Guest Lecturers include:

J. J. Hopfield , Dept. of Molecular Biology
J. G. Dushoff, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
A.L. Lloyd, Institute for Advanced Studies, Program in Theoretical Biology

Course Announcement

Course Syllabus (pdf file, last updated 9/12/02)

Course Schedule, including links to readings, slides from lectures

Homework - problem sets and solutions

Tutorials for Computer Labs

For information on the Graduate Training Program in Biological Dynamics at Princeton University, visit: http://www.eeb.princeton.edu/~slevin/BWF/BWFIntro.html