Quantitative Methods in Cell and Molecular Biology

Modern biology research increasingly relies on quantitative tools to make precise measurements of cell state. This course will provide an introduction to the experimental techniques and computational methods that enable the quantitative study of biological systems. We will start with an intro to programming using Python and we will employ the learned skills to analyze proteomics and sequencing data for studying gene networks within and across species, modeling biochemical reactions to study the dynamics of gene and protein networks, and extracting information about the spatial organization of biological systems using fluorescence imaging.