Reading assignments

Week 1: Chapter 1 in Sivia
Eddy, What is Bayesian statistics?
Week 2: Chapter 2 in Sivia
Nuzzo, Statistical errors; see also the editorial in Nature
Rougier, et al., Ten simple rules for better figures; see also original Python code to generate figures in the paper.
Week 3: Chapter 3 in Sivia
Week 4: Chapter 4 in Sivia
Week 5: Chapter 23 in MacKay
Week 6: Chapter 8 in Sivia
Week 7: Dan White's intro to image processing
Week 8: Chapters 9 and 10 in Gonzalez and Woods
Week 9: Dan White's tutorial on colocalization
Bolte, A guided tour into subcellular colocalization analysis in light microscopy

Source papers for data sets

Kleinteich and Gorb, Tongue adhesion in the horned frog Ceratophrys sp., Sci. Rep., 4, 5225, 2014
Gardner, Zanic, et al., Depolymerizing kinesins Kip3 and MCAK shape cellular microtubule architecture by differential control of catastrophe, Cell, 147, 1092-1103, 2011
Prober, et al., Hypocretin/Orexin overexpression induces an insomnia-like phenotype in zebrafish, J. Neurosci., 26, 13400-13410, 2006
Good, et al., Cytoplasmic volume modulates spindle size during embryogenesis, Science, 342, 856-860, 2013
Reeves, Trisnadi, et al., Dorsal-ventral gene expression in the Drosophila embryo reflects the dynamics and precision of the Dorsal nuclear gradient, Dev. Cell, 22, 544-557, 2012
Rasson, et al., Filament assembly by Spire: key residues and concerted actin binding, J. Mol. Biol., Epub ahead of print, 2014
Weitz, et al., Diversity in the dynamical behaviour of a compartmentalized programmable biochemical oscillator Nature Chem., 6, 295-302, 2014
Goehring, et al., FRAP analysis of membrane-associated proteins: lateral diffusion and membrane-cytoplasmic exchange Biophys. J., 99, 2443-2452, 2010
Lee, et al., Membrane shape as a reporter for applied forces PNAS, 105, 19253-19257, 2008
Iwer-Biswas, et al., Scaling laws governing stochastic growth and division of single bacterial cells PNAS, 111, 15912-15917, 2014