Schedule overview

  • Lecture: Tuesdays, Thursdays 12noon–1:15 pm EST

  • Lectures are recorded and posted on Blackboard

  • Instructor & TA office hours by appointment

  • Attendance is required. However, if you are sick or have potentially been exposed to COVID19, you may join via Zoom. However, you must authenticate via Hopkins SSO first. Zoom link is on Blackboard.


Homework and final project due dates


Lecture schedule

The schedule below is tentative. We will keep you updated as the content and schedule evolves. Note that there will be no class on Mar 22 or Mar 24 for Spring break.

  1. Jan 25: History of Stem Cells

  2. Jan 27: Comp Lesson 1: Introduction to Python

  3. Feb 1: Comp Lesson 2: Introduction to Python

  4. Feb 3: Till and McCulloch

  5. Feb 8: scRNAseq data generation

  6. Feb 10: scRNAseq analysis

  7. Feb 15: scRNAseq analysis part 2

  8. Feb 17: Cell identity

  9. Feb 22: Trajectory inference

  10. Feb 24: Free

  11. Mar 1: How to do TI analysis

  12. Mar 3: How to do ‘Stemness’ analysis

  13. Mar 8: RNA Velocity (Guest speaker: Kathleen Noller)

  14. Mar 10: RNA velocity analysis

  15. Mar 15: Lineage tracing (Guest speaker: Ray Cheng)

  16. Mar 17: Pluripotency

  17. Mar 29: Spatial transcriptomics & Cell-to-cell communication

  18. Mar 31: Lineage Tracing Analysis

  19. Apr 5: Gene regulatory networks (Guest speaker: Emily Su)

  20. Apr 7: Cell fate engineering

  21. Apr 12: Simulators (Guest speaker: Dan Peng)

  22. Apr 14: 21_Simulation_analysis (Guest speaker: Eric Kernfeld)

  23. Apr 19: 22_Controversies

  24. Apr 21: 23_ATACseq

  25. Apr 26: Final project presentations

  26. Apr 28: Final project presentations