Introduction to Cell Mechanics and Mechanobiology teaches advanced undergraduate students a quantitative understanding of the way cells detect, modify, and respond to the physical properties within the cell environment. Coverage includes the mechanics of single molecule polymers, polymer networks, two-dimensional membranes, whole-cell mechanics, and mechanobiology, as well as primer chapters on solid, fluid, and statistical mechanics.



1. Introduction to Cell Mechanics

2. Introduction to Cell Biology

3. Primer to Solid Mechanics

4. Primer to Fluid Mechanics

5. Primer to Statistical Mechanics

6. Experimental Techniques and Analyses

7. Biopolymers

8. Polymer Networks and the Cytoskeleton

9. Biomembranes

10. Mechanobiology

11. Cellular Mechanotransduction