This course teaches students how to move from data analysis to model building and prediction. It introduces computational and systems-level approaches for understanding genomes, molecular and cellular networks, evolution, disease genetics, and virtual cells, helping students learn how quantitative models can be used to generate mechanistic insight and testable biological hypotheses.
This course extends the principles introduced in Molecules to Life I to the organization and behavior of cells and tissues. It examines how the nucleus, protein quality-control systems, cell cycle, cytoskeleton, intracellular trafficking, signaling, cell division, and tissue organization work together to produce coordinated cellular and physiological function. Molecules to Life II replaces Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology II.
This independent research course serves as a critical bridge between the student’s foundational coursework and the execution of their doctoral dissertation. This course is a faculty-guided, for-credit syllabus tailored to student’s dissertation topic. It allows students to earn degree credits while doing focused literature reviews, dry/wet lab works, and/or manuscript drafting.
SEMINARS IN BLS II – SPRING 2027 SEMESTER
(Formerly CMBS G9202 “Seminars in CMBS II”)
The overall goals of this full-year course are to: Learn about (1) biomedical life sciences, broadly defined; (2) research at Columbia/VP&S; (3) scientists as individuals; (4) how to give a research presentation to an educated – but non-expert – audience; (5) how to give and receive useful feedback.