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News

June 8, 2009 - Yvonne Pao's office hours tonight will be held at 7 PM in Ruddock Lounge.

June 3, 2009 - The final has been posted and is due on Thursday, June 11 at 4 PM in the Bi 1 closet. The deadline has been extended from Wednesday so as to not overlap with other freshman core classes.

June 2, 2009 - Final Review Reminder: there will be a TA-led final review tomorrow (Wednesday, June 3) from 4-6 PM in the 119 KRK lecture hall.

June 1, 2009 - Justin Liu's office hours today have been moved to 7:00 PM in SFL Group Study Room #2-4.

Solutions to PS6 have been posted.

May 31, 2009 - Danielle Brown's office hours on Monday, June 1 have been cancelled.

May 25, 2009 - Problem Set 8 has been posted.

Solutions to the midterm and PS5 have been posted.

Damien Soghoian's office hours today have been moved to 3 pm.

May 20, 2009 - Cory Pender's office hours today have been cancelled.

May 19, 2009 - Problem Set 7 has been posted.

May 18, 2009 - Justin Liu's office hours have been moved to Mondays at 8:30 PM in SFL Study room 2-3.

May 12, 2009 - Problem Set 6 has been posted.

P/F policy reminder: In order to pass on P/F grading, you must earn 60% or above on each assignment. If you taking Bi1 on P/F (or are planning to switch to P/F) and have grades below 60%, please contact Damien.

An additional extra credit assignment has been posted.

May 10, 2009 - The deadline for turning in problem sets has been pushed forward by 4 hours. Problem sets will now be due on Tuesdays at 4 PM in the Bi1 closet. This means Problem Set 5 is now due Tuesday, May 12 at 4 PM.

Several extra credit opporutunities have been posted on the assignments page.

May 5, 2009 - Problem Set 5 has been posted.

May 4, 2009 - Office hour changes for this week only: Yvonne Pao's office hours on May 4 are cancelled.

April 30, 2009 - Extra credit assignment: For extra credit, attend the one or more of the Darwin seminars on Thursday, May 14 and do a short write up on what you have heard. If you attend a talk at the seminar and write a brief (~200 word) summary, you will get an extra section point. The Jesse Bloom talk "The Molecular Underpinnings of Virus Evolution" and the Francis Arnold talk "On Beyond Nature: Protein Evolution in the Laboratory" are each worth 1.5 section points. Please turn this in by 5PM on Thursday, May 21 by email to Damien. You may earn a total of 3 section points for the Darwin talks. A schedule of the symposium is available here.

April 29, 2009 - The midterm has been posted.

Extra credit opportunity:
We are posting the "cure HIV" extra credit assignment early this year so you can start thinking about it now. The deadline for submission is June 12, 2009:
Want to cure HIV/AIDS? Want 20 extra credit points on your final? Click here to find out more!
Read an article from the Tech about a student who did the extra credit last year (and is now carrying out research related to his proposal in the lab).

Midterm review slides have been posted.

Solutions to PS2, PS3 and PS4 have been posted.

Office hour changes for this week only: Helen Luo, Jonathan Tsai, and Harish Vasudevan will be holding their office hours on Sunday, 8 pm in Fleming Lounge.

April 28, 2009 - Midterm Review Reminder: we will be holding a midterm review tomorrow (Wednesday) from 4-6 PM in the 119 KRK lecture hall. It is optional, but should be helpful preparation for the test--so it is recommended that you attend. Slides will also be posted on the website after the review.

Ombuds sign up: If you are interested in being a Bi1 ombudsperson, please email Damien (soghoian@caltech.edu) with your name and house. The first meeting would be Wednesday, May 6 at noon (lunch provided).

April 21, 2009 - Problem Set 4 has been posted.

April 16, 2009 - The solutions to Problem Set 1 have been posted.

April 14, 2009 - Problem Set 3 has been posted.

April 7, 2009 - Problem Set 2 has been posted.

April 5, 2009 - An optional PyMOL review session led by Toni Lee will be held Friday, April 10 at 4:00 PM in 119 KRK.

April 1, 2009 - All homework deadlines have been changed from Mondays to Tuesdays. Problem set 1 is now due on Tuesday, April 7 at 5:00 PM. All future homeworks will be due Tuesdays at noon.

March 30, 2009 - Problem Set 1 has been posted.