Meets Monday,Wednesday 17:30-18:45 Physics Room 5

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Instructor: Prof. Keith Lidke

Room 1140, Physics and Astronomy
e-mail: klidke@unm.edu
phone: (505)277-0302

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Text

Biological Phyiscs, Philip Nelson

Although "Biological Physics" is our official text, it will be supplemented from many other sources.

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Syllabus

Flyer about Course Content: Phys480_Biophysics Flyer

Grading

Using this grading scale, grades will be assigned based on the following:

Homework Assignments (30%)

All homework assignments and due dates will be posted here on this website. Since we will often have discussions about homework problem results, no late homework will be accepted.

Lab reports (30%)

This course will include approximately eight mini-laboratories intended to familiarize the student with common techniques employed in a biophysics lab. For each laboratory, each lab group will submit a lab write up of no more than 2 pages.

Quizes(20%)

Quizes will cover basic cell and molecular biology concepts and terminology.

Final Exam (20%)

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Homework Assignments, Labs and Quizes

Lab report #1, due September 13. Only one report for each group.

Homework #1, due September 15. Solutions

Quiz #1 on biology/chemistry terminology, September 22: BioChemVocab1

Lab report #2, due September 27. Only one report for each group.

Lab report #3, due October 6. Only one report for each group.
Lab3 Data: GEMbio.csv JMBN Lab 3.csv teamawesome.csv smilyface.csv

Homework #2, due October 11.Solutions

Lab report #4, due November 3. Only one report for each group. Send analysis m-files in e-mail.
Lab4 Data (These are 30-60 MB) Use any data set.: bilzyerIgEg2_1-2010-10-13-18-51 bilzyerIgEg2_2-2010-10-13-18-52 bilzyerIgEg2_3-2010-10-13-18-56 bilzyerIgEg2_3-2010-10-13-18-57 bilzyerIgEg2_4-2010-10-13-18-59 bilayerBNJ-2010-10-18-18-44 BestBilayer1-2010-10-18-18-49 BestBilayer2-2010-10-18-18-51 BestBilayer3-2010-10-18-18-52

Homework #3, due November 17.. Homework data: SimDiff.mat Solutions



Lab report #5, due November 29. Only one report for each group.
Osmolarity of the Media and PBS before buffer exchange was 300 mOsm. Pixel size is 267 nm. Lab5 Data (These are 50-200 MB) Use any data set. osmosis1-2010-11-15-18-27(Media) osmosis2-2010-11-15-18-39(PBS) osmosis3-2010-11-15-18-47(Media) osmosis4-2010-11-15-18-56(PBS) osmosis1MNaCl-2010-11-15-19-3

Quiz #2 on biology/chemistry terminology, December 8: BioChemVocab2

Final Exam Part 1Due December 16. Data Sets FCS Information

Final Exam Part 2Due December 16. WLCdata.mat

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Reference Material

Lecture PDFs

lecture2-DNA
lecture3-RNA+Proteins
lecture5-VirusCapsid
DNA/Protein/Dye Structures
Lipids

Links

Online Searching of "Molecular Biology of the Cell"
MBOC: The Shape and Stucture of Proteins
Laminar Flow Video
Fluorescence Super-Resolution

MATLAB

Diffusion2DExample.m
PlottingPDFandHistogram.m
HW1_1.m
DiffusionInGravity.m
FitExample.m
LSQfunc.m
SPTexample.m
DiffusionInPotentialWell.m
HW3_2.m
HW3_3.m
GenTestVector.m

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Safety

Laser Safety

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