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* Instructor: [https://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa Elisa Franco]
* Faculty sponsor: [[User:Murray|Richard M. Murray]]
* Lectures: Tuesday 11-12PM, Friday 1-2PM, 110 Steele.
NOTE: The Friday lectures will include discussing a paper related to the week topic. Papers will be announced about a week prior to the discussion.
* ===>>NEW: [http://listserv.cds.caltech.edu/mailman/listinfo/cds-270-4 Mailing list] <<===

== Course Objectives: Biology and Control Theory ==

Feedback loops, which are ubiquitous in engineered systems, play a fundamental role  in most biological processes. The survival of any organism strictly depends on its ability to sense and react to changes in its environment. Like electrical and mechanical control systems, cells have the molecular gear necessary to sense, compute and actuate. What are the theoretical and experimental tools available to understand the regulatory circuitry in biochemical systems? This course will provide students with an organized overview of research work between control theory and molecular biology. 

The first part of the class will be dedicated to modeling, identification and control-theoretic methods for the analysis of biological networks, following a systems biology perspective. The second part of the class will instead focus on design principles, and the challenges related to constructing biological pathways. Can we build modular and robust networks satisfying performance specifications? This fascinating field offers a wide range of challenging open questions, which the students will be encouraged to critically discuss. 

== Course Schedule ==

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| Week || Date || Lecture Topic || Papers considered in class || BioControl Journal Club
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| align=center rowspan=3 | 1 
| colspan=4 | '''Introduction, Modeling biological systems'''
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| 29 March (M)
| Course overview and objectives, layers of control of gene expression. [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week1-1.pdf  Slides] 
| [[Media:CDS270-4SyllabusSpring10.pdf |Syllabus]]
|NA
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| 2 April (F)
| Modeling: Ordinary Differential Equations. [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week1-2.pdf  Slides]  
| [http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/10665270252833208 Review on modeling genetic regulatory networks] and  [http://www.pnas.org/content/98/4/1364.full Modeling the trp operon]
|[http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/37/5/e38  Model-based redesign of transcriptional networks]
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| align=center rowspan=3 | 2
| colspan=4 | '''Deterministic and stochastic modeling'''
|- valign=top
| 6 April (T)
| CDS methods for dynamic performance and periodic behaviors. The case of Negative Auto-Regulation. [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week2-1.pdf Slides] 
|[http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/FTP_DIR/angeli_ferrell_sontag_pnas04_paper_and_supplementary.pdf Detection of multistability, bifurcations and hysteresis in biological positive-feedback systems ], [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WK7-473N66C-3&_user=10&_coverDate=11%2F08%2F2002&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=217ba83086d0bb64f7bbd513445a7627 Negative Autoregulation Speeds the Response Times of Transcription Networks]
|NA
|-
| 9 April (F)
| Modeling: Stochastic methods, Gillespie algorithm. [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week2-2.pdf  Slides] 
|  [http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/j100540a008 Gillespie's fundamental paper]
|  [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2832680/ Defining bifurcations in stochastic systems]
|-
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| align=center rowspan=3 | 3
| colspan=4 | '''System identification in biology'''
|- valign=top
| 13 April (T)
| Overview of system identification methods. [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week3-1.pdf  Slides]  
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|NA
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| 16 April (F)
| Experimental approaches to identification of biological networks [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week3-2.pdf  Slides]
|[http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v5/n1/full/msb200975.html Using noise for parameter identification], [http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/pnas;99/20/12841 Identification of network connectivity], [http://www.nature.com/ncb/journal/v9/n3/abs/ncb1543.html Experimental identification of network topologies], [http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v40/n12/abs/ng.281.html Using dynamic correlation to reveal regulatory activity]
|NA
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| align=center rowspan=3 | 4
| colspan=4 | '''Theory of Chemical Reaction Networks'''
|- valign=top
| 20 April (T)
| General introduction and examples. Structural properties of CRNs. [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week4-1.pdf  Slides]
|[http://www.che.eng.ohio-state.edu/~FEINBERG/LecturesOnReactionNetworks/ M. Feinberg, original notes ], [http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~verduyn/Hans.Othmer_course_notes.pdf H. Othmer, Theory of Complex Reaction Networks ]
|NA
|-
| 23 April (F)
| Proof of the Deficiency Zero Theorem [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week4-2.pdf  Slides]
|[http://www.jeremy-gunawardena.com/papers/crnt.pdf Chemical Reaction Network Theory for In Silico Biologists]
|[http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/5971/1389 Structural Sources of Robustness in Biochemical Reaction Networks, Shinar & Feinberg]
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| align=center rowspan=3 | 5
| colspan=4 | '''Monotone systems'''
|- valign=top
| 27 April (T)
| Definitions and basic theorems [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week5-1.pdf  Slides]
| [http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0206133 Monotone Control Systems]
|NA
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| 30 April (F)
| Predicting oscillations; monotonicity in CRNs. The MAPK pathway. [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week5-2.pdf  Slides], [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week5-2-KGalloway.pdf  Slides]
| [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.142.7404 Oscillations in I/O Monotone Systems Under Negative FeedbackOscillations in I/O Monotone Systems Under Negative Feedback]
| [http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~sontag/PUBDIR/FTP_DIR/angeli_leenheer_sontag_graph_theoretic_monotone_journal_math_biology_online2009.pdf Graph-theoretic characterizations of monotonicity of chemical networks in reaction coordinates.] 
|-
|-
| align=center rowspan=3 | 6
| colspan=4 | '''Synthetic biology: design principles '''
|- valign=top
| 4 May (T)
| Design of molecular control systems and demand for gene expression [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week6-1.pdf  Slides]
| [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v407/n6804/abs/407651a0.html Large-scale metabolic network organization], [http://chaos.aip.org/chaoeh/v11/i1/p142_s1?isAuthorized=no Genetic modules design principles]
|NA
|-
| 7 May (F)
| Network motifs, structural and dynamical properties, [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week6-2.pdf  Slides]
|[http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v8/n6/abs/nrg2102.html Review on network motifs, theory and experiments]
|NA
|-
|-
| align=center rowspan=3 | 7
| colspan=4 | ''' Synthetic biology: design principles '''
|- valign=top
| 11 May (T)
| CANCELED
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|NA
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| 14 May (F)
| RNA-based control and ultrasensitivity [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week7-2.pdf  Slides]
|[http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n5/full/nbt1208.html RNA synthetic biology, review], [http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050229 sRNA-based regulation], [http://www.nature.com/msb/journal/v5/n1/full/msb200930.html Ultrasensitive response in protein interactions]
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| align=center rowspan=3 | 8
| colspan=4 | ''' Robustness '''
|- valign=top
| 18 May (T)
| Introduction: robustness in control theory vs biology [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week8-1.pdf  Slides]
| [http://www.cell.com/retrieve/pii/S0092867404008402 Review on robustness of cellular functions], [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC549435/ Heat shock response in E. coli], [http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/18/2415 Model checking for robust biological networks]
|NA
|-
| 21 May (F)
| Chemotaxis: robust perfect adaptation [http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~elisa/CDS270-4-2010/CDS270-4-2010-Week8-2.pdf  Slides]
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| align=center rowspan=3 | 8
| colspan=4 | ''' Modularity in control theory and biology '''
|- valign=top
| 26 May (W)
| Time-scale separation principle and dynamical systems approaches to modularity
|
|NA
|-
| 28 May (F)
| Modularity in experimental biology
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== Course Administration ==

This course is a special topics course in which the lecture material has been prepared by a senior graduate student. The class is P/F only and there is no required homework and no midterm or final exam. Students will be required to work on an individual or team course project.

== Course Project ==
Project proposals are due at 5pm on the last day of the Midterm examination period (May 4) and are due by 5pm on the last day of the final examination period (June 7). Project theme: select a cellular regulatory mechanism, define a list of important features of the system, come up with a modeling framework and carry out an analysis of its properties (e.g. stability, robustness, modularity...).

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