生物背景知識（謝如姬教授，中研院生醫所）：簡介蛋白質、細胞膜以及離子通道，作為建模的基礎知識。參考Bertil Hille, Ion Channels of Excitable Membranes （3rd edition) 書中關於下列主題：
Hodgkin-Huxley model(Chapter 2),
Voltage-Gated Channels (Chapter 3-5),
Channel Conductance (Chapter 11),
Structure of Channel Proteins (Chapter 13)

數值計算(洪子倫教授）：常微、偏微分方程式的數值模擬方法，包含下列主題：
(1) Introduction to mathematical software (numerics oriented): MATLAB
(2) Numerical methods for ODE's
(3) Finite difference/volume methods for parabolic PDE's.
(4) Finite difference/volume methods for elliptic PDE's.
(5) Finite difference/volume methods for hyperbolic PDE's.
(6) Introduction to spectral methods.
(7) Method of lines.

建模理論（林太家教授) ：推導數學模型的方法與數學分析的技巧，主題如下：
Introduction to differential equation models
Models of molecular dynamics
Monte Carlo simulations
Energetic variational approaches
Conservation laws
Drift-diffusion equations
Techniques of Fourier analysis