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New Two Credit Lab Course FOR MAJORS IN BIOL AND BINF

Modeling in the Life Sciences - BIOL 312L
Professor: Mauricio Bustos

An exciting new laboratory course intended for majors in Biological Sciences and Bioinformatics & Computational Biology. Prerequisites are BIOL 300L and either STAT350 or MATH 151 or MATH 155. This class may be used as the upper level lab elective for BA and BS majors in Biological Sciences.

The class will meet for the first time in the Spring semester, 2012. Classes will meet on Tuesday and Thursday from 9:00 - 10:50 a.m. New laptop computers will be provided for in-class work. Students will need to purchase a thumbdrive (2 Gb or larger) to save work in progress.

"In a broad sense, a model is any abstract representation of a physical phenomenon, and life scientists use a variety of model types in their work. This course is conceived as a practical guide to creating and using models in life sciences research. It uses classroom lectures, activities and computer applications to illustrate and implement five basic elements of biological modeling: experimental design, data acquisition, data trend analysis, model formulation, and simulation. Students work on concrete problems, with data from published examples and research applications from contributing principal investigators. The course stresses the concept of modeling as a recursion between experiment and model building that enables scientists to refine elements of a model with each repetition."
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