Readings
Day 1
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Physical Biology of the Cell YouTube Channel. by Rob Phillips. (2021) Rob’s collection of pre-recorded vignettes. (Note: clicking the link opens a pdf containing a followable url https://www.youtube.com/@physicalbiologyofthecellca307/videos)
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BioNumbers. by Milo Lab. (2021) A database of useful biological numbers (https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu).
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Cell Biology by the Numbers. by Ron Milo, Rob Phillips. (2015) “This book describes many of the estimates we will do in class and is a useful resource for finding key numbers that characterize biological phenomena. (http://book.bionumbers.org/)”
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Roger Payne, Biologist Who Heard Whales Singing, Dies at 88. by Sam Roberts. (2023) New York Times Obituary for influential biologist Roger Payne.
Day 2
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In Memoriam: Jacques Monod (1910–1976). by Agnes Ullmann. (2011) A memorium for Jacques Monod and his musings upon the secret of life.
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Nothing in Biology makes Sense but in the Light of Evolution by Theodosius Dobzhansky (1972)
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Models in biology: “accurate descriptions of our pathetic thinking” by Jeremy Gunawardena (2014) A Review discussing the role of Mathematics in Biology and how the reliance on assumptions requires models to be falsifiable.
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Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space by Mikolov et al. (2013)
Day 3
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Are theoretical results ‘Results’? by Raymond E Goldstein (2018)
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An Application of the Poisson Distribution by R. D. Clarke (1946) A study of how often neighborhoods in London were hit by bombs during the second world war.
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Migration of Proteins along the Axons of the Sciatic Nerve by Droz et al. (1957)
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Robert Brown’s Discovery of Brownian Motion by Robert Brown (1828) “A brief account of microscopical observations made in the months of June, July and August 1827, on the particles contained in the pollen of plants; and on the general existence of active molecules in organic and inorganic bodies”
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Design Principles of Length Control of Cytoskeletal Structures by Mohapatra et al. (2016)
Day 4
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The usefulness of useless knowledge by Abraham Flexner. (1939)
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Allan Wilson: Evolutionary by nzonscreen. (2008) A documentary on the revolutionary evolutionary biologies, Allan Wilson. (https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/allan-wilson-evolutionary-2008/overview)
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Patterns of predation in a diverse predator–prey system by Sinclair et al. (2003)