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== 20.309 course information==
  
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* [[20.309:Course Information| 20.309 course information]]
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* [[20.309:Safety| lab safety]]
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* Reserve a lab station here: [http://measurebiology.org/reservations/Web/schedule.php Bioinstrumentation Lab reservation system]
  
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== 20.309 master schedule==
 
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== 20.309 This week and next==
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===Module 1: Optics & Microscopy===
 
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|style="width: 10%;"|'''Important dates'''  
|style="width: 15%;"|'''Summary'''
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|style="width: 15%;"|'''Assignment due'''
|style="width: 18%;"|'''Assignments due'''
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|style="width: 30%;"|'''Assignment page links'''
|style="width: 17%;"|'''Lab Manual'''
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|style="width: 45%;"|'''Useful resources'''
|style="width: 35%;"|'''Resources'''
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| <font color=#04B45F>9/17/17</font color>
| Week 6: Mar. 12 - 18
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| Assignment 1
| Finish PSet 2 and wrap up Microscopy 3
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| <font color=#04B45F> Monday Mar. 13: Pset 2 </font color>
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[[Assignment 1 Overview: Transillumination microscopy| Assignment 1 Overview]]
| [[Optical Microscopy Part 3: Resolution, Stability, and Particle Tracking|Microscopy 3]] - don't forget to reserve your cells [http://doodle.com/poll/cc2nc6hiqum5e5ze here]
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* [[Assignment 1, Part 1: Pre-lab questions|Part 1: Pre-lab questions]]
| Overview
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* [[Assignment 1, Part 2: Optics bootcamp|Part 2: Optics bootcamp]]
* [[Lab Manual: Optical Microscopy]]
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* [[Assignment 1, Part 3: Building your transillumination microscope|Part 3: Build a microscope]]
Code examples and simulations
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* [[Assignment 1, Part 4: Building your transilluminated microscope|Part 4: Measure stuff]]
* [[Converting Gaussian fit to Rayleigh resolution]]
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* [[MATLAB: Estimating resolution from a PSF slide image]]
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* [https://stellar.mit.edu/S/course/20/fa13/20.309/materials.html Lectures 1 through 9 of the 20.309 class]
* [[Matlab: Scalebars]]
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* From [http://www.microscopyu.com Nikon MicroscopyU]
Background reading
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** [http://www.microscopyu.com/articles/formulas/formulasconjugate.html Conjugate planes in optical microscopy] (includes transmitted and reflected (epi) illumination)
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** [http://www.microscopyu.com/articles/formulas/formulasri.html Snell's law]
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** [http://www.microscopyu.com/articles/formulas/formulasresolution.html Resolution]
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*  [[Understanding log plots]]
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| <font color=#04B45F>9/24/17</font color>
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| Assignment 2
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| [[Assignment 2: fluorescence microscopy| Assignment 2 Overview]]
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* [[Assignment 2 Part 1: Noise in images|Part 1: Noise in images]]
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* [[Assignment 2 Part 2: Fluorescence microscopy|Part 2: Fluorescence microscopy]]
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* [[Assignment 2 Part 3: Build an epi-illuminator for your microscope|Part 3: Build an epi-illuminator for your microscope]]
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* [[Geometrical optics and ray tracing]]
 
* [[Geometrical optics and ray tracing]]
 
* [[Physical optics and resolution]]
 
* [[Physical optics and resolution]]
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* [[Optical detectors, noise, and the limit of detection]]
 
* [[Optical detectors, noise, and the limit of detection]]
 
* [[Manta G032 camera measurements]]
 
* [[Manta G032 camera measurements]]
 
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| <font color=#04B45F>9/28/17</font color>
| Week 7: Mar. 19 - 25
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| Quiz 1 (in lecture)
| Finish Microscopy 3 and prep for Exam 1
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| <font color=#04B45F> Sunday Mar. 19: Microscopy 3  
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Thursday Mar 23: Exam 1 (at 7:30pm in 4-237)</font color>
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| <font color=#04B45F>10/1/17</font color>
| [[Optical Microscopy Part 3: Resolution, Stability, and Particle Tracking|Microscopy 3]]  
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| Assignment 3
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| [[Assignment 3 Overview|Assignment 3 Overview]]
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* [[Assignment 3, Part 1: visualizing actin with fluorescence contrast|Part 1: fluorescence imaging]]
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* [[Assignment 3, Part 2: experimental design with fluorescence| Part 2: choosing filters]]
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*[[Flat-field correction|Flat-field correction of non-uniform illumination]]
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*[[Matlab: Scalebars]]
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|  <font color=#04B45F>10/8/17</font color>
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| Assignment 4
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|{{Template:Assignment 4 navigation}}
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* [[Physical optics and resolution]]
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|  <font color=#04B45F>10/15/17</font color>
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| Assignment 5
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| [[Assignment 5 Overview|Assignment 5 Overview]]
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* [[Assignment 5, Part 1: viscosity and diffusivity in glycerol-water mixtures|Part 1: Estimating the diffusion coefficient by tracking suspended microspheres]]  
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* [[Assignment 5, Part 2: live cell particle tracking of endocytosed beads| Part 2: Live cell particle tracking of endocytosed beads]]
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* [[Converting Gaussian fit to Rayleigh resolution]]
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* [[MATLAB: Estimating resolution from a PSF slide image]]
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* [[Matlab: Scalebars]]
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* [[Calculating MSD and Diffusion Coefficients]]
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|  <font color=#04B45F>10/19/17</font color>
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| Exam 1 (at 7:30pm in 4-163)
 
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===Module 2: Signals and Systems===
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|style="width: 10%;"|'''Important dates'''
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|style="width: 15%;"|'''Assignment due'''
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|style="width: 30%;"|'''Assignment page links'''
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|style="width: 45%;"|'''Useful resources'''
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|  <font color=#04B45F>10/29/17</font color>
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| Assignment 6
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| [[Assignment 6 Overview]]
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* [[Assignment 6, Part 1: Pre-lab questions|Part 1: Pre-lab questions]]
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* [[Assignment 6, Part 2: Electronics bootcamp|Part 2: Build circuits and measure them]]
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* [[Electronics primer]]
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* [https://www.khanacademy.org/science/electrical-engineering/ee-circuit-analysis-topic Khan Academy Material, esp. "Ideal Circuit Elements" and "Voltage Divider"]
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* [[Real electronics]]
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* [[Impedance Analysis|Impedance analysis]]
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* [[Bode plots|Transfer functions and Bode plots]]
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* [[Complex Number Review|Complex number review]]
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* [[Input and output impedance]]
  
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|  <font color=#04B45F>11/2/17</font color>
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| Quiz 2 (in lecture)
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|  <font color=#04B45F>11/5/17</font color>
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| Assignment 7
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| [[Assignment 7 Overview]]
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* [[Assignment 7, Part 1: op amp golden rules questions|Part 1: Op amps]]
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* [[Assignment 7, Part 2: measure temperature and fluorescence| Part 2: measure temperature and fluorescence]]
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* [[Assignment 7, Part 3: testing your instrument and measuring a DNA melting curve| Part 3: test your instrument and measure a preliminary melting curve]]
  
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* [[DNA Melting Thermodynamics]]
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* [[Real electronics]]
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* [[Impedance Analysis|Impedance analysis]]
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* [[Bode plots|Transfer functions and Bode plots]]
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* [[Complex Number Review|Complex number review]]
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* [[Input and output impedance]]
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|  <font color=#04B45F>11/12/17</font color>
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| Assignment 8
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| [[Assignment 8 Overview]]
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* [[Assignment 8, Part 1: convolution|Part 1: convolution and lock-in amplifiers]]
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* [[Assignment 8, Part 2: lock-in amplifier and temperature control| Part 2: modify your instrument]]
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* [http://mfold.rna.albany.edu/?q=DINAMelt/Hybrid2 DINAMelt Web Server]
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|  <font color=#04B45F>11/19/17</font color>
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| Assignment 9
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| [[Assignment 9 Overview]]
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* [[Assignment 9, Part 1: model function|Part 1: writing the model function]]
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* [[Assignment 9, Part 2: Simulating DNA melting data and testing the model function|Part 2: test your code with simulated data]]
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* [[Assignment 9, Part 3: Fitting your data|Part 3: fitting your data]]
  
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* [[DNA Melting: Model function and parameter estimation by nonlinear regression]]
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* [[DNA Melting Thermodynamics]]
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* [[DNA melting: Identifying the unknown sample]]
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|  <font color=#04B45F>12/3/17</font color>
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| Assignment 10
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| [[Assignment 10 Overview|Assignment 10: measure DNA melting curves and identify your unknown sample.]]
  
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* [[DNA melting: Identifying the unknown sample]]
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* [[DNA Melting: DNA Sequences]]
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* [[DNA Melting: Model function and parameter estimation by nonlinear regression]]
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|  <font color=#04B45F>12/7/17</font color>
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| Exam 2 (at 7:30pm in 4-163)
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|  <font color=#04B45F>12/13/17</font color>
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| Assignment 11
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== 20.309 course information==
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* [[20.309:Course Information]]
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* [[20.309:Lab Report Guidelines]]
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* [[20.309:Safety]]
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Reserve a lab station here: [http://measurebiology.org/reservations/Web/schedule.php Bioinstrumentation Lab reservation system]
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==Optics bootcamp==
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===Lab manual===
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* [[Optics Bootcamp]]
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==Optics and microscopy resources==
 
===Background reading===
 
===Background reading===
 
* [[Geometrical optics and ray tracing]]
 
* [[Geometrical optics and ray tracing]]
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* [[Physical optics and resolution]]
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* [[Optical aberrations]]
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* [[Aperture and field stops]]
 
* [[Optical detectors, noise, and the limit of detection]]
 
* [[Optical detectors, noise, and the limit of detection]]
 
* [[Manta G032 camera measurements]]
 
* [[Manta G032 camera measurements]]
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* [[Understanding log plots]]
  
{{:Optical microscopy lab wiki pages}}
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===Code examples and simulations===
 
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* [[Converting Gaussian fit to Rayleigh resolution]]
==Electronics bootcamp==
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* [[MATLAB: Estimating resolution from a PSF slide image]]
===Lab manual===
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* [[Matlab: Scalebars]]
* [[Electronics Mini-Lab|Electronics bootcamp]]
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* [[Calculating MSD and Diffusion Coefficients]]
  
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==Electronics resources==
 
===Background reading===
 
===Background reading===
 
* [[Electronics primer]]
 
* [[Electronics primer]]
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* [[Input and output impedance]]
 
* [[Input and output impedance]]
  
{{:DNA melting lab wiki pages}}
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===Code examples and simulations===
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* [[DNA Melting: Simulating DNA Melting - Basics]]
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* [[DNA Melting: Simulating DNA Melting - Intermediate Topics]]
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* [[DNA Melting: Model function and parameter estimation by nonlinear regression]]
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===Reference materials===
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* [[DNA Melting Thermodynamics]]
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* [[DNA Melting: DNA Sequences]]
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* [http://mfold.rna.albany.edu/?q=DINAMelt/Hybrid2 DINAMelt Web Server]
  
 
==Limits of detection mini-lab==
 
==Limits of detection mini-lab==

Revision as of 23:41, 13 November 2017

20.309: Biological Instrumentation and Measurement

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20.309 course information

20.309 master schedule

Module 1: Optics & Microscopy

Important dates Assignment due Assignment page links Useful resources
9/17/17 Assignment 1

Assignment 1 Overview

9/24/17 Assignment 2 Assignment 2 Overview
9/28/17 Quiz 1 (in lecture)
10/1/17 Assignment 3 Assignment 3 Overview
10/8/17 Assignment 4
10/15/17 Assignment 5 Assignment 5 Overview
10/19/17 Exam 1 (at 7:30pm in 4-163)


Module 2: Signals and Systems

Important dates Assignment due Assignment page links Useful resources
10/29/17 Assignment 6 Assignment 6 Overview
11/2/17 Quiz 2 (in lecture)
11/5/17 Assignment 7 Assignment 7 Overview
11/12/17 Assignment 8 Assignment 8 Overview
11/19/17 Assignment 9 Assignment 9 Overview
12/3/17 Assignment 10 Assignment 10: measure DNA melting curves and identify your unknown sample.
12/7/17 Exam 2 (at 7:30pm in 4-163)
12/13/17 Assignment 11

Optics and microscopy resources

Background reading

Code examples and simulations

Electronics resources

Background reading

Code examples and simulations

Reference materials

Limits of detection mini-lab

MRI mini-lab

(Kept for historical reasons.)