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Bio322: Biophysics I Lecture Notes

The end-semester exam will cover all topics

[Ver. 2013]

Slides will be posted here as the topics are completed
  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:

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Updated: 20 Nov 2013 @0920

[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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