SUBJECT

Title

Biophysics II

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

2

Recommended in

Semester 3

Typically offered in

Autumn semester

Course description

Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz equation, molecular motors and pumps, redox processes, bioenergetics, oxidative phosphorylation, photosynthesis, modern biophysical methods (FRET, optical tweezers, AFM, OWLS, SPR, QCM, electrophoresis, dynamic force spectroscopy), bioinformatics, biological networks, neural networks.

Readings
  • Damjanovich, Fidy, Szöllősi: Medical Biophysics (Medicina, 2009)
  • Glaser: Biophysics (Springer, 2004)
  • Egelman: Comprehensive Biophysics (Academic Press, 2012)
  • Nelson: Biological Physics (W.H. Freeman, 2013)
  • Flyvbjerg et al.: Physics of Biological Systems (Springer, 1997)
  • Vicsek: Fluctuations and scaling in biology (Oxford University Press, 2001)