Living State Physics - Week 6

The aim of this week is to get an insight in the workings of biosensors

Marina Voinova ( Forskarhuset-4116/7723115)

Monday 27/11: 10-11.45 (FL71)

• Micromechanics of DNA, cytoskeleton and motor proteins

Wednesday 29/11: 15.15-17 (Fasrummet A820)

• Physics of Biosensors

Background material

• Random walks in biology, H.C. Berg, Princeton University Press (1993).

  (a nice little book with the elementary concepts for biological systems and randomness).

• Physics with illustrative examples from medicine and biology. Volume 2: Statistical Physics,

  F. Villars and G. Benedek (Springer, to appear).(has everything you want to look up!)

• How nature harvest sunlight, X. Hu and K. Schulten, Physics Today, pp. 28, August 1997.
• Ch. 6 in Cellular Biophysics (Volume 2: Electrical Properties) by Thomas Fischer Weiss, MIT Press, Cambridge 1996.

  (a very detailed account of channels in membranes)

• Cellular Biophysics (Volume 1:Transport) by Thomas Fischer Weiss, MIT Press, Cambridge 1996.

  (this part of the two volumes describes transport phenomena in extreme details with emphasis on modelling aspects).