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Phy 490 - Basic Principles of Biophysics 
Fall 2017


Handouts:
  • Course description and course structure
Course announcements:
10/18/2017 -  Class on 10/20/2017 will have Prof. Stephanie Palmer as a guest lecturer.
Topic: Efficient representation of information.​​


Homework
10/18/2017 - Homework set 1.  Due 10/27. Original Goldbetter & Koshland paper here. 
A related paper comparing temporal and structural co-operativity.
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.