This course focuses the integration of complex biological data sets and non-reductionist approaches to studying living organisms. This course will begin by an examination of systems theory, stochasticity in biological systems, emergent behaviours, the advent of high-throughput biological experimental techniques and the use of modeling to understand biological processes. The course will also examine epigenetic systems, lipidomics, metabolomics, synthetic biology, integrative cellular signaling networks and computational modeling of cellular systems. The laboratories will complement the lectures.