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Instructors

• Dr. Hawazin Elani...

Course Description
The field of cancer metabolism has grown tremendously in the past decade, contributing major advancements in our understanding of how to diagnose and treat tumors. Despite this, some of the tools required to study cancer metabolism remain out of reach for many labs. This is particularly true for metabolomics, as it...

Cellular heterogeneity has become an increasingly important topic in many areas of cell biology on a wide range of spatiotemporal scales. This course will introduce important concepts of computational image analysis and machine learning that help us characterize cellular heterogeneity within cell images. After the formal lectures, we will utilize the standard software such as MATLAB, CellProfiler, ImageJ in hands-on experiences. The topics will include image processing, segmentation, tracking, feature extraction, and...

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The Arduino is a powerful and inexpensive digital microcontrollers that can be used to develop custom lab instruments. Many tasks that used to require a PC or expensive hardware can be put together with an Arduino and tens of dollars worth of parts. Developing microcontroller-based tools allows researchers to automate and scale up aspects of their research that were previously unfeasible.

This nanocourse will cover the basics of programming an Arduino microcontroller and interfacing with sensors and actuators in order to build simple lab...

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Each one of us has 25 trillion red blood cells, and we make 250 billion new red blood cells each day. Red blood cell production is tightly regulated by the production of erythropoietin, a hormone that is secreted by the kidneys but has its effect in the bone marrow. This nanocourse explores the history of erythropoietin, how its production is tightly regulated, rare diseases that dysregulate erythropoietin regulation, and new classes of medications that stimulate erythropoietin production. While we focus on erythropoietin, we will also think about and...

Instructors: Ofer Mazor, Pavel Gorelik

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Biomedical researchers often build and use experimental rigs consisting of several interconnected electronic instruments. These rigs are typically used to make high-quality recordings of weak biological signals. The goal of this course is to demystify the rig: What does each instrument do? How should they be connected? How does one troubleshoot noise, or adjust settings in a principled way?

The course will focus on fundamental concepts in electronics and signal processing,...