Category Archives: Teaching

My notes in prep for next student committee meeting to provide critical feedback for improving the Berkeley Biophysics training program. Possible objectives for core curriculum, (motivated from From IB grant: Part 1. customized core curriculum guided by IGERT mentoring teams.) Working … Continue reading →

Volume 1 of Principles of Synthetic Biology now live. http://alistairboettiger.info/PoSB_Mag_v1.pdf

Design cover, contents, layout files etc for PoSB paper.  Add final student papers.  Integrate into single document.

More work on formatting student magazine for Principles of Synthetic Biology. (up to page 96 of formatted papers).

Formatting student papers for PoSB Magazine

Formatting student papers into PoSB magazine. Reformatted 10 articles in 3 hours — This takes longer than hoped.

Final day of student presentations, 8:00A – 12:30P.  Collect student reviews.  Should do these electronically next time, easier to save and share feedback. Need to print and read student final papers still.

Evaluating BioE 190/290D final presentations from MIT and Berkeley, 8:30A – 12:00P

Project scheduling emails (2o min) Advising on stability analysis (20 min) Helping students with LaTeX (20 min) Other student emails (20 min) Reschedule paper submissions Graded HW5 (1.5 hrs)