03-757 Special Topics

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Special topics course for graduate students. Section A: This course discusses the design of artificial biological parts or systems for research, engineering, and medical applications. The course will cover both top-down and bottom-up synthetic biology with topics spanning from generation of synthetic circuits, genome, and organelles, to engineering cells with new functions for cell therapy, and cell free system for producing products for biomedical applications. The course will cover high throughput assays using automated experimental pipelines to speed up design and screen of synthetic biological parts and modules.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Fall 2026, Fall 2025

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