6 ms·
I just graduated with a BSc. in Biology from the University of California, Irvine. The plan was to go on as a physician, and thus, to fulfill med school require
by kyro 17y ago
I just graduated with a BSc. in Biology from the University of California, Irvine. The plan was to go on as a physician, and thus, to fulfill med school requirements, I took 3 years of biology courses. Dna to Organisms, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology, Cellular Neurobiology, Language and the Brain, Neurology lab, Immunology, Human Physiology, and Evolutionary Biology, in no particular order.
By far, though, the best biology course I took was a graduate course called Systems Cell Biology, where we used Mathematica to create mathematical models of receptor responses and secondary messenger systems. Reason I loved it so much was, considering my lack of cs background, because it was the only class where I witnessed and experienced the the intersection of cs/mathematics and biology. The text we used in the class is called 'The Cell' by Alberts, and James Watson. I asked the professor of the class about further reading, and he suggested "2 texts: (1) An Introduction to
Systems Biology: Design Principles of Biological Circuits (Alon, U.), and (2) Physical Biology of the Cell (Rob Phillips et al.)."
Hope that helped. You can email me for more info, email is in my profile.
- tokenadult 17y agoDna to Organisms That sounds like a very interesting course. That would hardly have been possible to present in my undergraduate days. What was the content of that course? Evolutionary Biology I was hoping my introductory biology course would get more into evolutionary issues than it did. It hewed pretty closely to a plan of spewing out lots of essential facts without a lot of theoretical framework. I think the same course was presented much better just a few years later when a friend took it and a different professor was the lecturer.