Bio322: Biophysics I Lecture Notes

[Ver. 2013]

1. Introduction
2. Energetics of life
3. Dimensional analysis & orders of magnitude
4. Biology by numbers
5. Biological time scales
6. Equilibrium approach to cells and bio-molecules
7. Protein folding and Levinthal's paradox
8. Entropy and Ligand-Receptor binding
9. Random walk polymer
10. Cytoskeleton
11. Development
12. Membrane biophysics by Dr. Durba Sengupta
13. Light in biology by Dr. Mrinalini Puranik:
    • Introduction by Lackowicz,
    • Lecture notes and research paper by Kohler et al. (2007) Thymine dimerization in ultrafast photoreaction. Science [Click to open folder]

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[Ver. 2012]

1. Introduction: why physical biology?
2. Energy in Biology
3. Biology by dimensionsal analysis and numbers
4. Equilibrium models: Free energy minimization of structures, Entropy and Levinthal's Paradox
5. Boltzmann distributions, ligand-receptor binding and two-state systems
6. Random walks and macromolecular structures and summary equations
7. Cell structure and cytoskeleton

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