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    • Biochemistry - Computational & Systems Biology . MCDB 108C

    Models of Biochemical and Cellular Systems. Introductory systems-biology approach to model the design and the function of biological systems. Students will develop an intuition about physical concepts that are fundamental to discuss how biological organisms acquire and process information from the environment. Those concepts and tools will cover probabilities and basic dynamical systems theory. Students will build models of processes of increasing complexity, ranging from viral dynamics, bacterial resistance to drugs, the maintenance of homeostatic equilibrium (trp operon), biological oscillators (mitotic clock) and genetic switches underlying cellular decisions (bacteriophage lambda and lac operon).

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    Prerequisites: MCDB 108A-B with a grade of C or better or MCDB W 108A and MCDB 108B with a grade of C or better; Physics 6A-B-C with minimum grade of C (Physics 6C may be taken concurrently); Math 34A-B with a grade of C or better or Math 3A-B with a grade of C or better or Math 2A-B with a grade of C or better.

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