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Lab Modules

  • Lab basics and restriction digestion
  • Intro to microscopy
  • The Luria-Delbrück fluctuation test
  • E. coli growth
  • LacI titration
  • Delay oscillator
  • C. elegans optogenetics
  • Kombucha


  • Tutorials

  • Setting up a Python environment
  • Intro to Python for scientific computing
  • Image processing I (images)
  • Image processing II (images)
  • Image processing III (images)
  • Hacker stats for Boolean data
  • Delay oscillators and DDEs
  • Bioinformatics II
  • Sophie's probability distribution and ECDF tutorial


  • Journal club papers and talking points

  • The Great Ideas of Biology by Paul Nurse
  • Bacterial Growth: Constant Obsession with dN/dt by Frederick Neidhardt
  • Microbial ecology


  • Data

  • All data sets are available here.


  • Miscellaneous handouts

  • Bi 1x safety sheet
  • NEB λ restriction sites
  • Grant and Grant finch beak data set
  • Interpixel distances for the Bi 1x microscopes
  • Bcd immunostaining data from Driever and Nüsslein-Volhard.
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