Molecular Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics | MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Class Information

BioMechanics

Spring | Undergraduate/Graduate | 12 Units | Prereq: (Biology (GIR) and 18.03

Develops and applies scaling laws and the methods of continuum mechanics to biomechanical phenomena over a range of length scales. Topics include structure of tissues and the molecular basis for macroscopic properties; chemical and electrical effects on mechanical behavior; cell mechanics, motility and adhesion; biomembranes; biomolecular mechanics and molecular motors. Experimental methods for probing structures at the tissue, cellular, and molecular levels. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.

Instructor Information

Ritu Raman (Spring)

Eugene Bell Career Development Professor of Tissue Engineering; Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Interest Areas

Biofabrication
Neuromuscular Tissue Engineering
Biohybrid Robots

Peter So (Spring)

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Interest Areas

Two-photon deep tissue imaging, two-photon lifetime resolved imaging, two-photon fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
Studying neuronal plasticity, investigating mechanotransduction processes, developing image informatics approach to study liver fibrosis and nerve regeneration
constructing endomicroscopes for non-invasive cancer diagnosis