BMEN 432: Molecular and Cellular Biomechanics
Course Description
Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.Introduces biomolecules and their assemblies that play structural and dynamical roles in subcellular to cellular level mechanics; emphasis on quantitative/theoretical descriptions; discussions of the relevant experiment approaches to probe these nano to micro-scale phenomena; includes topics in self-assembly of cytoskeleton and biomembranes, molecular motors, cell motility, and mechanotransduction.Prerequisite:BMENÂ 361.