MCD BIO 198A
Honors Research in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Tutorial.
Fall 2026: 32 sections. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 3 hours ago.
Grades
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Workload and assignments
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What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 4 courses long before MCD BIO 198A. This is a floor, not a deadline: dibs has not read a class page for CHEM 20B and LIFESCI 23L, so the real chain can only be longer than this, never shorter.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
From the registrar's catalog
Tutorial, 12 hours. Requisites: Life Sciences 3 and 4, or 7A, 7B, 7C, 23L, and 107. Course 198A is requisite to 198B, which is requisite to 198C. Limited to junior/senior Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology majors. Development and completion of comprehensive research project and honors thesis under direct supervision of approved faculty member to broaden and deepen students’ knowledge of some phase of molecular, cell, and developmental biology. Must be taken for at least three terms and for total of 12 units. Report on progress must be presented to undergraduate adviser each term 198 course is taken. Individual contract required. In Progress grading (credit to be given only on completion of course 198B).
Sections in Fall 2026
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 32 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Tut 1 Time TBAClosed by the departmentno grade history
1 enrolled no history
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Tut 2 Time TBAClosed by the departmentno grade history
1 enrolled no history
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Tut 3 Time TBAClosed by the department
Deng, S.X.
no grade history2 enrolled no history
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Tut 4 Time TBAClosed by the department
Tontonoz, P.
no grade history1 enrolled no history
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Tut 5 Time TBAClosed by the department
Zhen, A.
no grade history1 enrolled no history
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Tut 6 Time TBAClosed by the department
Bottini, N.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 7 Time TBAClosed by the department
Giovannini, M.
no grade history1 enrolled no history
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Tut 8 Time TBAClosed by the departmentno grade history
no enrollment count published no history
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Tut 9 Time TBAClosed by the department
Miller, J.H.
no grade history1 enrolled no history
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Tut 10 Time TBAClosed by the department
Si, M.M.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 11 Time TBAClosed by the departmentno grade history
no enrollment count published no history
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Tut 12 Time TBAClosed by the department
Hoffmann, A.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 13 Time TBAClosed by the department
Hugo, W.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 14 Time TBAClosed by the department
Gu, M.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 15 Time TBAClosed by the department
Lipshutz, G.S.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 16 Time TBAClosed by the department
Tornini, V.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 17 Time TBAClosed by the department
Medina-Kauwe, L.K.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 18 Time TBAClosed by the department
Hsiao, E.Y.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 19 Time TBAClosed by the department
Kam, C.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 20 Time TBAClosed by the departmentno grade history
no enrollment count published no history
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Tut 21 Time TBAClosed by the department
O'Sullivan, T.E.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 22 Time TBAClosed by the department
Crooks, G.M.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 23 Time TBAClosed by the department
Tseng, H.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 24 Time TBAClosed by the department
Siekhaus, D.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 25 Time TBAClosed by the departmentno grade history
no enrollment count published no history
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Tut 26 Time TBAClosed by the department
Lawrence, R.E.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 27 Time TBAClosed by the department
Lee, J.K.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 28 Time TBAClosed by the department
Young, S.G.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 29 Time TBAClosed by the department
Prins, R.M.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 30 Time TBAClosed by the department
Savage, V.M.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 31 Time TBAClosed by the department
Wells, M.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
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Tut 32 Time TBAClosed by the department
Abel, E.D.
no grade historyno enrollment count published no history
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking MCD BIO 198A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 32 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Tut 1 · Jacobsen, S.E. · 1 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 2 · Sagasti, A. · 1 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 3 · Deng, S.X. · 2 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 2.
Tut 4 · Tontonoz, P. · 1 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 5 · Zhen, A. · 1 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.
Tut 6 · Bottini, N. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 7 · Giovannini, M. · 1 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.
0 to 1 enrolled across 3 readings, +1.
Tut 8 · Lowry, W.E. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 9 · Miller, J.H. · 1 enrolled
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 1 month before that, filled by 1.
Tut 10 · Si, M.M. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 11 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 11 · Farmer, D.T. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 10 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 12 · Hoffmann, A. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 10 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 13 · Hugo, W. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 10 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 14 · Gu, M. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 9 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 15 · Lipshutz, G.S. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 8 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 16 · Tornini, V. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 8 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 17 · Medina-Kauwe, L.K. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 8 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 18 · Hsiao, E.Y. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 7 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 19 · Kam, C. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 6 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 20 · Clark, A.T. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 6 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 21 · O'Sullivan, T.E. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 6 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 22 · Crooks, G.M. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 5 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 23 · Tseng, H. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 3 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 24 · Siekhaus, D. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 3 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 25 · Long, J.A. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 3 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 26 · Lawrence, R.E. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 3 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 27 · Lee, J.K. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 2 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 28 · Young, S.G. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 2 days before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 29 · Prins, R.M. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 1 day before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 30 · Savage, V.M. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over the 1 day before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 31 · Wells, M. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 14 hours before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
Tut 32 · Abel, E.D. · -
Nothing read since 1 Oct, 3 hours ago. Over about 14 hours before that, unchanged.
Both readings say 0 seats.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.