Introduces the tools and applications of biotechnology in the fields of medicine, agriculture, the environment, and industry.
General Education Code
PE-T
The principles of life as it exists on this planet and how they generalize. Darwinian evolution, genomes, scientific theories of life (mechanistic, thermodynamic, information theoretic). Future of life: Internet, machine learning and adaptation, artificial intelligence, genome editing, fully artificial life.
General Education Code
SI
Laboratory course providing hands-on training in fundamental techniques used to express, isolate, and analyze genes in prokaryotic cells. Introduction to common laboratory instruments and fundamental skills required for basic research in molecular biology and biomolecular engineering.
Project-based laboratory course providing hands-on training in fundamental molecular biology and biomolecular engineering techniques used to manipulate expression of DNA and proteins in prokaryotic cells. Students are introduced to essential processes in experimental design.
Laboratory-based course extending the wet lab skills developed in the first two quarters of the BME 2x series with bioinformatics skills that form the foundation of biomolecular engineering. Focuses on sequencing of low-diversity environmental samples, including: field sampling, DNA extraction from those samples, library preparation, hands-on sequencing using a Nanopore device, base-calling of the raw data, assembly of contigs, quality assessment, contig assignment to species/bins, automated annotation of a single assemblage from collection genome publication.
Lab-based course that introduces measuring, modeling, and designing electronics circuits, emphasizing voltage dividers and complex impedance culminating in simple, negative-feedback op amp circuits for amplifying audio signals.
Lab-based course that introduces designing, measuring, and modeling electronics circuits, emphasizing RC filters and negative-feedback amplifiers for various sensors circuits for amplifying audio signals, design of multi-stage amplifiers, instrumentation amplifiers, and class-D power amplifiers.
Course intended to assist second-year biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics undergraduates find research labs that they might join. Students sit in on different lab group meetings, read papers recommended by the lab groups, and report back to other students in the class both verbally and in writing. Course is offered for pass/no pass only.
Serves science and non-science majors interested in bioethics. Guest speakers and instructors lead discussions of major ethical questions having arisen from research in genetics, medicine, and industries supported by this knowledge.
Cross Listed Courses
PHIL 80G
General Education Code
PE-T
Course will focus on understanding human genes. Accessible to non-science majors. Will cover principles of human inheritance and techniques used in gene analysis. The evolutionary, social, ethical, and legal issues associated with knowledge of the human genome will be discussed.
General Education Code
PE-T
Provides a means for a small group of students to study a particular topic in consultation with a faculty sponsor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.
Provides a means for a small group of students to study a particular topic in consultation with a faculty sponsor. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.
Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.
Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.
Cross-listed Courses
Investigates the scientific, ethical, social, and legal dimensions of human embryonic stem-cell research, including the moral status of the embryo; the concept of respect for life; ethical constraints on oocyte procurement; creation of embryonic chimeras; federal policies; and political realities. (Also offered as Biomolecular Engineering 247. Students cannot receive credit for both courses.) Prerequisite(s): Course in stem cell biology (ex:
BME 278 Stem Cell Research) or the equivalent knowledge. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.
Cross Listed Courses
BME 247
Considers the practical and epistemological necessity of collaborative research in the development of new sciences and technologies that are attentive to questions of ethics and justice. Enrollment is by permission of instructor. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.
Cross Listed Courses
BME 268A, FMST 268A, CRES 268A
Provides in-depth instruction in conducting collaborative interdisciplinary research. Students produce a final research project that explores how this training might generate research that is more responsive to the links between questions of knowledge and questions of justice. Prerequisite(s):
SOCY 268A, BME 268A, FMST 268A, or ANTH 267A. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students and by permission of the instructor.
Cross Listed Courses
FMST 268B, BME 268B, ANTH 267B