Assignments
Spring 2011
All sets will be due on Tuesdays at 4:00 PM. Homework should be turned into the Bi1 closet.
After you finish, take the homework survey at http://courses.caltech.edu (Enrollment key: jenner)
Course Materials Downloading Policy
The content delivered in this course is the intellectual property of the instructor and TAs. No portion of any lecture or the pdf and powerpoint materials that accompany the lectures is to be distributed in any manner (e.g., video, paper copies, or computer file) outside of the Caltech community, without the express written consent of the instructor. Any redistribution of any aspect of the course (including but not limited to the lectures and the powerpoint files) will be considered a violation of the honor code.
Problem Set 1 | Solutions (Due Tuesday, April 5 @ 4 PM) | Grades Average
Problem Set 2 | Solutions (Due Wednesday, April 13 @ 4 PM) | Grades Average
Problem Set 3 | Solutions (Due Tuesday, April 19 @ 4 PM) | Grades Average
Problem Set 4 | Solutions (Due Tuesday, April 26 @ 4 PM) | Grades Average
Midterm | Solutions (Due Monday, May 2 @ 4 PM) | Grades Average
Problem Set 5 | Solutions (Due Wednesday, May 11 @ 4 PM) | Grades Average
Problem Set 6 | Solutions (Due Wednesday, May 18 @ 4 PM) | Grades Average
Problem Set 7 | Solutions (Due Wednesday, May 25 @ 4 PM) | Grades Average
Problem Set 8 | Solutions (Due Tuesday, May 31 @ 4 PM) | Grades Average
Final (Due Thursday, June 9 @ 4 PM)
Extra Credit Opportunities
- TEDx Caltech Lectures
Pick at least 5 of the following webcast lectures to watch. Submit a one-page maximum summary of all the ones you watched to earn an extra section point. Email your summary to Linda (dansong@caltech.edu) by June 7th. You are welcome to watch other talks on the TEDx Caltech website, but you will ONLY get credit for watching the following selected topics.
- Pamela Björkman: Visualizing and Engineering New Anti-HIV Agents
- Angela Belcher: Engineering Biology to Make Materials for Energy Devices
- J. Craig Venter: Future Biology
- Drew Berry: Visualization: Biology and Complex Circuits
- Nadine Dabby: Programming Molecular Robots
- Mark Davis: Nanomedicines: Nanobiotech v. Cancer
- Steve Quake: The Integrated Circuit of Biology
- Michael Roukes: Embracing Biocomplexity: Plenty of Room in the Middle
- Engineering Immunity - extra credit
Propose your own cure for HIV for extra credit! - Click here to read an article from the Tech about a student (one of Bi1 TAs now) who did this extra credit assignment few years ago and has turned it into an ongoing research project.
- Gates Foundation: Call for proposals, Due May 19th 2011.
- Biology-related Lecture Series
To earn an extra section point, you may submit a short (one page max) summary of any biology-related lecture that you attended. The lecture can either be one that was recommended in class or one that is approved by Linda (dansong@caltech.edu). The summary is due one week after the lecture date.- Douglas A. Lauffenburger: "Quantitative Engineering Analysis of the EGFR System Toward Discovery and Design of Molecular Therapeutics"
Monday, May 9th, 4PM in Beckman Institute Auditorium (refreshments at 3:40 pm) -- Due May 16th. - Jay Neitz: "Gene Therapy for Red-Green Color Blindness"
Tuesday, May 17th, 4PM in 119 Kerckhoff -- Due May 24th. - Lou Staudt: "Converging on the Achilles Heel of Cancer through Functional and Structural Genomic"
Tuesday, May 24th, 4PM in 119 Kerckhoff -- Due May 31st. - Changhuei Yang and George Maltezos: "Caltech Global Health Association Mini-Symposium: Technology vs. Malaria"
Thursday, May 26th, 5:30PM in 153 Noyes Auditorium. Food will be provided. Please RSVP to cgha@caltech.edu, http://www.its.caltech.edu/~cgha/ -- Due June 2nd. - Daniel Portnoy: "Discrimination of Pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Microbes by the Innate Immune System"
Tuesday, May 31st, 4PM in 119 Kerckhoff -- Due June 7th.
- Douglas A. Lauffenburger: "Quantitative Engineering Analysis of the EGFR System Toward Discovery and Design of Molecular Therapeutics"
- Write your own Bi1 question - Extra credit (PDF)
Write a Bi1 homework question to earn extra credit. If we end up using the problem, you may earn even more credit. Email Linda: dansong@caltech.edu by June 7th. - CROI Lectures & Questions (PDF)
For this assignment, you are asked to watch webcast lectures from the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) and then answer several related questions. Responses should be submitted to Linda (dansong@caltech.edu) by June 7th.