2021568 Biophysics
This is a doctoral-level 3-unit lecture course offered under the NanoScience Program in the Graduate School. Its aim is to furnish PhD students with enogh background in physical biochemistry needed to conduct his/her own doctoral research.
Tertiary and quarternary structure of proreins and nucleic acids; forces that determine biological structure and function; spectroscopy of biological macromolecules; random motions and diffusion; hydrodynamics; forces and fluxes across membranes; diffraction, macromolecules.
โครงสร้างตติยภูมิ และจตุถภูมิของโปรตีนและกรดนิวคลีอิก แรงท่ีกําาหนดโครงสร้างและหน้าท่ีทางชีววิทยา สเปกโทรสโกปีของชีวมหโมเลกุล การเคลื่อนที่แบบสุ่มและการแพร่ อุทกพลศาสตร์ แรงและฟลักซ์ตลอดเมมเบรน การเลี้ยวเบน มหโมเลกุล
This course has been offered since 2006. It is flexible enough to prepare doctoral students in the NanoScience program for their research in diverse fields.
At the beginning of the semester, students would consult their academic advisors in order to choose appropriate topics for each person. Faculty members who regularly teach this course will then be paired with the selected topics. Finally, a class schedule is set up to take into account the available time of students and professors. The topics on the list includes
- Get Handout weak forces in life sciences
- Get Handout water
- Get Handout protein structures and functions
- Get Handout nucleic acid structures and functions
- Get Handout carbohydrate structures and functions
- Get Handout lipids and membranes
- Get Handout transport across membranes
- Get Handout transport in solution: diffusion, sedimentation, and viscosity
- Get Handout transport in solution: electrophoresis
- Get Handout absorption spectroscopy
- Get Handout absorption spectroscopy - colors
- Get Handout emission spectroscopy (fluorescence spectroscopy)
- Get Handout light scattering
- Get Handout lasers
- Get Handout Raman spectroscopy
- Get Handout circular dichroism
- Get Handout bindings
- Get Handout biochemical signaling: basics
- Get Handout biochemical signaling: neurotransmitters and neuromodulators
- Get Handout biosynthesis of vitamin D
- Get Handout nanotoxicology