Quantitative Synthetic Biology

Catalog description

The course focuses on the fundamental principles of biology from an engineering perspective. These principles are necessary to understand the basic mechanisms of living organisms. As the laws of nature governing these mechanisms are expressed as differential equations, the main goal of this course is to introduce and model biological processes using tools from dynamical systems theory, with particular focus on the role of feedback. Throughout this course, students will learn how biological functions can be analyzed and designed using mathematical models, and how to use these models along with tools from controls and dynamical systems theory to predict and engineer the dynamics of biological systems.