Course Identification

Title:

Frontiers in systems biology

Code:

20203122

Lecturers and Teaching Assistants

Lecturers:

Prof. Yitzhak Pilpel, Prof. Amos Tanay

TA's:

N/A

Course Schedule and Location

Year:

2020

Semester:

Second Semester

When / Where:

Monday, 09:15 - 11:00

First Lecture:

23/03/2020

Field of Study, Course Type and Credit Points

Life Sciences: Lecture; Elective; Regular; 2.00 points
Life Sciences (Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience Track): Lecture; Elective; Regular; 2.00 points
Life Sciences (Brain Sciences: Systems, Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Track): Lecture; Elective; Regular; 2.00 points
Life Sciences (Computational and Systems Biology Track): Lecture; Elective; Regular; 2.00 points

Comments

N/A

Prerequisites

No

Restrictions

Participants:

80

Language of Instruction

English

Attendance and participation

Required in at least 80% of the lectures

Grade Type

Pass / Fail

Grade Breakdown (in %)

Attendance

20%

Other :

80%

Evaluation Type

Other

Scheduled date 1

Date / due date

N/A

Location

N/A

Time

-

Remarks

N/A

Estimated Weekly Independent Workload (in hours)

2

Syllabus

Each week, a leading researcher in Systems Biology will give a lecture, covering recent topics in the field. A wide range of topics will be covered, including: Single cell analysis; Modeling gene expression and gene regulatory networks; Design principles of biological regulatory systems; Quantitative understanding of dynamic metabolic systems; Systems immunology and virology; and Generating order in development.

At the end of the course, students will give a short presentation, based on topics covered in the course, in the form of a research proposal - relating topics from the course to their own research.

Frontiers in Systems Biology schedule 2020

Date	Speaker	Host
30/3/2020	Gidon Eshel	Ron Milo
6/4/2020	Alex Stark	Igor Ulitsky
20/4/2020	Rahul Satija	Schragi Schwartz
27/4/2020	Edo Kussell	Tzachi Pilpel
4/5/2020	Nassos Typas	Rotem Sorek
11/5/2020	Allon Klein	Shalev Itzkovitz
18/5/2020	Itai Yanai	Itay Tirosh
25/5/2020	Ami Bhatt	Eran Segal
1/6/2020	Debie marks	Naama Barkai
8/6/2020	Lacra Bintu	Yaron Antebi
15/6/2020		Amos Tanay & Ido Amit

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course students should be able to:

Describe recent cutting edge developments in Systems Biology as presented by leading scientists in the field.
Critically assess current methodologies and important findings in the field
Relate their acquired knowledge and understanding of the concepts presented in the course to their own research

Reading List

A list of recommended papers will be provided before each lecture.

Website

N/A