Study of enzyme kinetics, immobilized enzymes, cell cultivation, the stoichiometry of microbial growth and product formation, bioreactor design, agitation, and aeration, and downstream processing. Also offered as CENG 460 . Introduction to the nervous system is given including the electrophysiology of nerve and muscle cells, synaptic transmission and sense receptors. Modeled neurons are interconnected using synaptic models to form functional representations of small neural networks. At all levels, comparisons are made with experimental data.
Course provides an introduction to biological modeling and computation.
Also offered as ELEC 481 . Nervous system control of biological systems can be represented utilizing techniques common to the field of linear, nonlinear, or adaptive control theory. This course begins with a review of the basic aspects of control theory, followed by detailed discussion of the structure of several biological systems, including the visual, cardiovascular, and pulmonary systems. Specific examples of neural control are developed for each system, utilizing modeling and simulation techniques. Parameter sensitivity analysis and parameter estimation techniques are likewise brought to bear on some of these models to achieve good least-squares fits to experimental data.