The course will be given in English. The sessions will take place on Monday from 1:15pm to 5:30pm Paris time at ENS Paris-Saclay in room 1N82, and online for remote participants. Classes start on September 15, 2025.
For on-campus partication, please register through your department or contact us. For online participation, please fill out the registration form.
No previous knowledge of biology or chemistry is required. The following will be helpful, however:
Bioengineering is a rising discipline with applications in bioproduction, pharma, environmental sciences, and medicine. It inherently requires skills from biology, computer science, control theory, and other fields of engineering. The course will feature experimental data from spectroscopy and microscopy, mathematical modeling, compilation, control, and optimization of an example process.
| session | date | topic | notebook | recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Background material | Coding Setup | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | ||
| Background material | Microbiology | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | ||
| Background material | Differential Equations | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | ||
| 1 | September 15, 2025 | Introduction | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | (video) |
| Background material | Probabilities | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | ||
| 2 | September 22, 2025 | Chemical Reaction Networks | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | (video) |
| Advanced topic | Stochastic Simulation | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | ||
| Background material | CRN Modeling with MobsPy | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | ||
| Background material | Asymptotic Notation | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | ||
| 3 | September 29, 2025 Advanced topic |
Distributed Algorithms, Majority Consensus | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | (video) |
| 4 | October 6, 2025 | Genetic Control | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | (video) |
| 5 | October 13, 2025 | Logic Gates | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | (video) |
| Background material | Oscillations in Differential Equations | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | ||
| 6 | October 20, 2025 | Oscillators | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | (video) |
| 7 | November 3, 2025 | Nucleic Acid Design | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | (video) |
| Advanced topic | Nucleic Acid Thermodynamics | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | ||
| Background material | DNA Cloning | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | ||
| 8 | November 10, 2025 | Plasmid Design | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | (video) |
| 9 | November 17, 2025 | Measurements | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | (video) |
| 10 | November 24, 2025 | Data Analysis and AI | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | (video) |
| 11 | December 1, 2025 | Parameter Estimation | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | (video) |
| Advanced topic | Stochastic Parameter Estimation | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | ||
| 12 | December 8, 2025 | Live from the Lab | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | (video) |
| 13 | December 15, 2025 | Bioproduction | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | (video) |
| 14 | January 5, 2026 | Computer Vision for Microscopy | (html) (ipynb) (zip) | (video) |