Lower-Division

BME 5 Introduction to Biotechnology

Introduces the tools and applications of biotechnology in the fields of medicine, agriculture, the environment, and industry.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff, Nader Pourmand

General Education Code

PE-T

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter

BME 18 Scientific Principles of Life

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.

Credits

5

Instructor

David Haussler, David Deamer

General Education Code

SI

Quarter offered

Fall

BME 21L Introduction to Basic Laboratory Techniques

Introduces students to basic laboratory techniques that are essential to begin work in faculty research labs and on capstone projects. Students have several independent blocks/fixed projects and learn how to use various instruments and techniques employed in biotechnology laboratories, such as: calibration and use of the pipette; making up various buffers; pH titration; Bactrial transformation; TAcloning; plasmid and DNA isolation; Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR); gel electrophoresis; Pyrosequencing; and an introduction to Linux for DNA sequence analysis.

Credits

3

Instructor

Nader Pourmand, Dianne Hendricks

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to bioengineering, bioinformatics, and biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics majors and proposed majors.

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter

BME 22L Foundations of Design and Experimentation in Molecular Biology, Part I

The first in a two-part series that includes BME 23L. Together these courses prepare bioengineering students for successful junior/senior year projects in faculty research laboratories, iGEM, or Senior Design. The focus is on molecular biology laboratory and introductory bioinformatics skills. Students will design and initiate an original metagenome study near the end of the term.

Credits

2

Instructor

Mark Akeson, Ali Shariati, Richard Edward Green, Dianne Hendricks

Requirements

Prerequisites: BME 21L, CHEM 1B, and CHEM 1M; or by permission of instructor. Enrollment is restricted to sophomores and juniors.

Quarter offered

Winter, Spring

BME 23L Foundations of Design and Experimentation in Molecular Biology, Part II

Continuation of BME 22L. Together these courses prepare bioengineering students for successful junior/senior year projects in faculty research laboratories, iGEM, or Senior Design. The focus is on molecular biology laboratory and introductory bioinformatics skills. Students will complete original metagenome and transcriptome studies.

Credits

2

Instructor

Mark Akeson, Christopher Vollmers

Requirements

Prerequisites: BME 22L or by permission of instructor. Enrollment is restricted to sophomore and junior bioengineering and biomolecular engineering and bionformatics majors.

Quarter offered

Spring

BME 51A Applied Electronics for Bioengineers Part 1

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.

Credits

5

Instructor

Kevin Karplus

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): MATH 19A; or MATH 11A by consent of instructor. High school physics recommended. Enrollment is restricted to bioengineering and biomolecular engineering & bioinformatics majors and proposed majors; other majors by consent.

BME 51B Applied Electronics for Bioengineers Part 2

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.

Credits

5

Instructor

Kevin Karplus

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): BME 51A.

BME 55 Introduction to Lab Groups

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.

Credits

2

Instructor

Kevin Karplus

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to sophomore and junior proposed biomolecular engineering and bioinformatics majors, or by permission of the instructor.

Quarter offered

Spring

BME 80G Bioethics in the 21st Century: Science, Business, and Society

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.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

PHIL 80G

Instructor

The Staff, Karen Miga

General Education Code

PE-T

Quarter offered

Spring

BME 80H The Human Genome

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.

Credits

5

Instructor

The Staff, Karen Miga, Christopher Vollmers, Richard Edward Green

General Education Code

PE-T

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter

BME 94 Group Tutorial

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.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

BME 94F Group Tutorial

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.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

BME 99 Tutorial

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

BME 99F Tutorial

Students submit petition to sponsoring agency.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

Cross-listed courses that are managed by another department are listed at the bottom.

Cross-listed Courses

BIOL 247 Stem Cell Research: Scientific, Ethical, Social, and Legal Issues

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.

Credits

2

Cross Listed Courses

BME 247

Instructor

Lindsay Hinck

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): Course in stem cell biology (ex: BME 278 Stem Cell Research) or the equivalent knowledge. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.

SOCY 268A Science and Justice: Experiments in Collaboration

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.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

BME 268A, FMST 268A, ANTH 267A

SOCY 268B Science and Justice Research Seminar

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.

Credits

5

Cross Listed Courses

FMST 268B, BME 268B, ANTH 267B

Instructor

Jenny Reardon