PHYC452Biophysics:Schedule

Our Biology and Chemistry vocabulary list

Week by Week Calendar
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 * Week 1 Jan 23
 * Lecture 1: A discussion about Biophysics in General, and Biophysics in the UNM Physics Department.  Random Walks, Stokes-Einstein relation, time scales of diffusion in cell membranes and cytoplasm. (Nelson Chapter 4)
 * Week 1
 * Lecture 1: A discussion about Biophysics in General, and Biophysics in the UNM Physics Department.  Random Walks, Stokes-Einstein relation, time scales of diffusion in cell membranes and cytoplasm. (Nelson Chapter 4)
 * Week 1


 * Week 2 Jan 28,30
 * Lecture 2: Basic structure and function of Eukaryotic cells. (Nelson Chapter 2) Diffusion through channels and membranes. (Nelson Chapter 4) Lecture 3: Quiz on basic biology terminology. Friction in fluids and low Reynolds number. (Nelson Chapter 5).
 * Week 2


 * Week 3 Feb 4,6
 * No Classes: Biophysical Society Meeting Feb 2-6. Classes will be rescheduled at a later date.

Lecture 5:: Basic chemistry in Biology II, disorder, maximum entropy lead to the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. Energy, enthalpy and free energies (Nelson Chapter 6).
 * Week 4 Feb 11,13
 * Lecture 4:: Basic chemistry in Biology, the Navier-Stokes equation, Reynolds number and low viscosity environments (Nelson Chapter 5).
 * Week 4

Lecture 7:: Quiz on basic biochemistry (postponed from Monday). Entropic forces.
 * Week 5 Feb 18,20
 * Lecture 6:: Rate constants, chemical equilibrium, Arrhenius equation.
 * Week 5

Lecture 9:: Gels, Freely jointed chains, 1D cooperative chain model.
 * Week 6 Feb 25,27
 * Lecture 8:: Chemical Potential, Osmosis, Rate equations, Scatchard Plots
 * Week 6

Lecture 11:: Buffers, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Basic Microscope Optics.
 * Week 7 March 3,5
 * Lecture 10:: Worm-Like Chain Model
 * Week 7

Lecture 13:: MATLAB PSF demo, Photodiode, Avalanche Photodiodes.
 * Week 8 March 10,12
 * Lecture 12:: Point Spread Function Calculations.
 * Week 8

Reveiw Session: Review for Exam/ Q&A problems session. 3:00pm, meet outside rm 5. March 26: Midterm Exam. Solutions
 * Week 9 March 24,25,26
 * Lecture 14:: PMTs, CCDs, Exam Overview
 * Midterm Links


 * Week 10 March 31,April 2
 * Lecture 15,16:: Parameter Estimation, Cramer-Rao Lower Bound, single fluorophore localization accuracy.
 * Week 10

Lab 1: Single Particle Tracking of Quantum Dot Labeled lipids in a DOPC bilayer.
 * Week 11 April 7,9
 * Lecture 17:: Beer-Lambert Law, Protein and Nucleic Acid concentration measurements, Phospholipid nomenclature, Laser Classes.
 * Week 11


 * Week 12 April 14,16
 * Lecture 18,19:: Single Particle Tracking Analysis, lipid bilayer elasticity, Optical trap calibration for optical tweezers.
 * Week 12


 * Week 13 April 21,23
 * Lecture 18: Molecular Motors. April 23: Quiz 3- click here for topics
 * Week 13