The lab teaches biomechanics, mechanobiology, transport, and computational biology across undergraduate, graduate, and research-centered formats. Course titles below link to UC Berkeley catalog or class pages when a Berkeley source is publicly available.
This two-semester course in computational biology gives undergraduates a structured way to build research skills, strengthen relevant background knowledge, and conduct group-based research projects.
Audience: undergraduate research preparation in computational biology.
This course develops and applies scaling laws together with statistical and continuum mechanics to biomechanical phenomena ranging from molecular assemblies to cellular systems.
Audience: advanced undergraduates and graduate students with prior exposure to differential equations, mechanics, and modern biology.
This course presents a modular mechanobiology perspective on the cell, with focused study of integrin-mediated focal adhesions and the nuclear pore complex as two major elements of cellular machinery.
Audience: graduate students in Mechanical Engineering. No prior Biology coursework is assumed.
This course applies computational modeling and continuum mechanics to biomedical problems spanning molecular, cellular, tissue, and organ-level phenomena.
Audience: upper-level undergraduates who have completed continuum mechanics foundations such as statics and strength of materials.
This junior-level course develops and applies continuum mechanics to biomechanical phenomena from the cell to tissue and organ scales, with emphasis on principled analysis and biomedical design intuition.
Audience: Bioengineering students with prior physics, linear algebra, and differential equations.
This course develops and applies scaling laws and continuum mechanics to biological transport phenomena across multiple length and time scales, with examples drawn from tissues, organs, and biomedical microdevices.
Audience: students with differential equations and introductory physics. Biology and physiology background is helpful but not required.