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Phy 490 - Basic Principles of Biophysics 
Fall 2015


Handouts:
  • Course description and course structure
Course announcements:
9/29/2015: New class time 9:30 - 10:50 AM, Mondays and Wednesdays. KPTC 105. Effective from Wednesday 9/30/2015.
9/29/2015: Take the preparation/technical background survey.
Homework

9/30/2015: Problem 53 of the textbook. Download the needed data from here
10/10/2015: Ultra-sensitivity from opposing forces. Original Goldbetter & Koshland paper here.

Other suggested materials:

Swimming at Low Reynolds number - Lecture by Purcell
Accessible first account of the swimming in cornstarch problem.

Random Walks in Biology by Howard Berg. 
Book on basics of random walks etc

Chemotaxis review by Yuhai Tu
Recent accessible review of adaptation and amplification in chemotaxis.

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