BIOE5760 (Method and Logic in Systems Biology and Bioengineering) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Emphasizes difficulties that lie at the interface of theory and experiment in bioengineering and systems biology. Covers stem cell engineering, directed differentiation, engineering biological circuits, cooperativity, robust adaptation, kinetic proofreading, signal transduction and information processing in biological systems, network analysis, dynamical systems, and biological design principles. This course is based on reading and discussing primary literature that exemplifies approaches that have revealed new concepts and principles governing biological systems. Each week, students read and discuss two important papers. The instructor provides relevant background and frames the examined papers in the context of the field and their time period as the basis for class discussion.
Data updated October 2026.