| Individual course details | ||||||||||
| Study programme | Theoretical and experimental physics | |||||||||
| Chosen research area (module) | ||||||||||
| Nature and level of studies | Master studies | |||||||||
| Name of the course | Biophysics | |||||||||
| Professor (lectures) | Prof. Milan Knežević | |||||||||
| Professor/associate (examples/practical) | ||||||||||
| Professor/associate (additional) | ||||||||||
| ECTS | 10 | Status (required/elective) | elective | |||||||
| Access requirements | statistical physics | |||||||||
| Aims of the course | Learn the main concepts, laws and methods of bophysics. | |||||||||
| Learning outcomes | Students will be able to apply the acquired knowledge and methods in studies of simple biophysical systems. | |||||||||
| Contents of the course | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Introduction to the physics of biopolymers: random walks model, entropic forces, collapse of homopolymers, DNA collapse, helix-coil transition, DNA and RNA structures, Protein structures, Protein folding, Molecular motors, Physics of genetic regulation. Molecular networks. Models of evolution. | |||||||||
| Examples/ practical classes | ||||||||||
| Recommended books | ||||||||||
| 1 | K. Sneppen, G. Zocchi, Physics in Molecular Biology, Cambridge UP (2005) | |||||||||
| 2 | R. Cotterly, Biophysics, J. Wiley and Sons (2002) | |||||||||
| 3 | W. Poon, D. Andelman, Soft Condensed Matter Physics in Molecular and Cell Biology, Taylor and Francis (2006) | |||||||||
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| 5 | ||||||||||
| Number of classes (weekly) | ||||||||||
| Lectures | Examples&practicals | Student project | Additional | |||||||
| Teaching and learning methods | lectures, consultation,project | |||||||||
| Assessment (maximal 100) | ||||||||||
| assesed coursework | mark | examination | mark | |||||||
| coursework | 20 | written examination | ||||||||
| practicals | 30 | oral examination | 50 | |||||||
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