Lab 1 (3Â weeks) | Biocompatibility | Test the effect of different types of commonly used chemical compounds in 3D printers on cell viability |
Lab 2 (3Â weeks) | Lentiviral Transduction | Learn standard methods for delivering genes to cell lines and assessing transduction efficiency |
Lab 3 (3Â weeks) | 3D Cell Culture in Hydrogel Scaffold | Culture muscle cells in 3D hydrogel scaffolds and quantify cellular adhesion, morphology, proliferation, and differentiation in 3D |
Lab 4 (3Â weeks) | Build a Walker Bio-Bot | 3D print walking bio-bot powered by tissue engineered skeletal muscle and compute muscle force generation and bio-bot speed |
Final Project (3Â weeks) | Design and Build Your Own Bio-Bot | Design and build muscle-powered bio-bot to achieve a functional behavior relevant to an application in biomedical engineering |