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 | 1 |  |  |  | Introduction and Overview. The Problem of Understanding Nonlinearity and Feedback in Biological Networks.   | 
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 | 2 |  |  |  | DNA Computing and Self-Assembly.  | 
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 | 3 |  |  |  | Enzyme Kinetics. Michaelis-Menten Theory. Cooperative Behavior.  | 
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 | 4 |  |  |  | Metabolic Control Analysis.   | 
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 | 5 |  |  |  | General Formalism for Chemical Reaction Networks. Metabolic Flux Analysis.  | 
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 | 6 |  |  |  | Student Presentations. Theory of Chemical Computation.  | 
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 | 7 |  |  |  | Overview of Transcriptional Regulation. Lambda Phage.  | 
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 | 8 |  |  |  | Models of Bistability in Chemical Reaction Networks.  | 
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 | 9 |  |  |  | Demo of Bard Ermentrout's XPP. Chemical Reaction Networks Versus Neural Networks. Global Stability of Symmetric Networks.  | 
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 | 10 |  |  |  | Student Presentations. Synthetic Genetic Networks.  | 
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 | 11 |  |  |  | Oscillations in an Activator-Inhibitor System. Phase Plane Analysis.  | 
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 | 12 |  |  |  | Hodgkin-Huxley Model of the Action Potential.  | 
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 | 13 |  |  |  | Spike Frequency Adaptation and Negative Feedback Linearization. | 
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 | 14 |  |  |  | Phototransduction. | 
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 | 15 |  |  |  | Chemotaxis. | 
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 | 16 |  |  |  | Long-Term Potentiation. | 
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 | 17 |  |  |  | Circadian Rhythms. | 
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 | 18 |  |  |  | Stochastic Models of Lambda Phage. | 
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 | 19 |  |  |  | Molecular Motors. | 
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 | 20 |  |  |  | Development. | 
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 | 21 |  |  |  | Cell Cycle. | 
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 | 22 |  |  |  | Pattern Formation and Slime Molds. | 
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 | 23 |  |  |  | Cell Sorting. | 
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 | 24 |  |  |  | Immunity. | 
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 | 25 |  |  |  | Final Project Presentations. | 
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