Course plan and material

Overview of FYS4715 2020

Chapters refer to textbook: Biological physics, Energy, information, life by Philip Nelson

W Theme Ch. Mon Tue Practical Exercises FYS2160
34

Introduction.

Order from disorder.

1,2  

Lect 1

Notes

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Your turn 1A,

Prob 1.3, 2.2, 2.5

Models,

Ideal gas

35

What's inside cells

Statistical mechanics,

diffusion, random walks,

Brownian motion

2,3 Lect 2a

Lect 2b

Lab

Brownian

motion

exp., image

analysis

 

Random walks and

Browninan motion

Microstates

macrostates,

counting states

(multiplicity)

36

Active and passive

motion

4

Lect 3, Image

analysis,

Lab E coli exp Project: Active Passive walkers Multiplicity of different models
37 Diffusion and low Reynolds world 4,5 Lect 4

Papers

Purcell: Life at low Reynolds

Zoom recording of lecture 5

  Project: Active Passive walkers Entropy, 2nd law, gas expansion, mixing, chemical potential, diffusion
38 Entropy, temperature, free energy 6 Lect 6a

Lect 6b Quizz solving

Video of lecture 6b

  Your turn 6A-H  
39 Entropic forces 7

Video of lecture 7

Quizz solving cont.

Notes on engines

 

Lect 8 notes Boltzmann statistics.,

notes on osmosis

Video on Boltzmann statistics

video on osmosis

 

Your turn 6I

Problems 6.6, 6.7

 
40 Lecture break - - - -    
41 Chemical forces & self assembly 7,8

Gibbs factor, chemical potential, chemical reactions.

Lecture notes

Lecture 9 video part A

lecture 9 video part B

Lect 10 Hemoglobin model, CO poisoning. Depletion pressure, osmosis flux, charges,

notes on chem. pot.

notes on hemoglobin

  O2016 Ex 0.8 and 0.10  
42 Molecular machines, Mechanobiology 10

Lect 11 Physics of adherent cells

Mechanotransduction

Notes and papers

Lect 12 Thomas: Ultrasound-biophysics mechanisms

Notes, Paper

Exp. Ultrasound    
43 Mechanobiology  

Edna: "Single molecule talin stretching", quantitative imaging

Lecture 13 notes

Paper:Tijore2020

Thomas: Analysis of US exp. Analysis of US exp.    
44 Morphogenesis  

Lect. 14 Stefan: Cells to tissues: Morphogenesis

Lect. 14 Mathias: Organ-on-a-chip technology

Lect 15 From Ising model to Cellular Potts Model

Turing and Wolpert paper

Differential adhesion paper

Drosophila forces paper

     
45 Cellular Potts Model

 

Lect 16 Alvaro: Lecture notes

CPM

Alvaro: CPM Simulation project

Book, Tumor growth model

Simulation exercise Project: CPM  
46 Ions at membranes, membrane potentials to action potential

11.1-2

12.1-2

Lect 17: Nernst potentials, Donnan equilibrium, ion pumping

Lect notes, video

Lect 18: Action potential -> cable equation

Lect notes, video1, video2

     
47 Simulating nerve impulses 12.3

Lect 19, Geir: Simulating the Hodgkin-Huxley model. Lecture notes

Video1, video2

Geir: Simulation project   Project: Nerve impulses  
48 Calcium imaging nerve impulses 12.4

Lect 20, Kristian: Lect. and demo in lab: Two-photon Ca2+ imaging

Lecture notes pdf

lecture notes ppt

video

       

 

 

 

 

Prerequisites from thermodynamics and statistical physics: See Fys2160 2020, lecture notes and videos of the following lectures: 2, 4, 6 (not first video), 7-10.

Publisert 16. aug. 2020 14:10 - Sist endret 28. sep. 2023 12:44