Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: SYSTEMS BIOLOGY OF HUMAN DISEASES

Department: Chemical & Biomolecular Engr

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Introduction to concepts necessary for application of systems - Biology Approaches to Human Diseases. Topics include transcriptional and metabolic design principles, introduction to various regulatory network motifs in diseases and potential treatments using embryonic stem cells. Analysis of complex diseases using engineering concepts such as optimality, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, multiscale analysis and spatiotemporal transport. Cross-list: BIOE 682.