Course plan and material

Overview of FYS4715 2021

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

Prerequisites from thermodynamics and statistical physics: See Fys2160 2021, lecture notes and videos of the following lectures: 2, 4, 6 (not first video), 7-10.

 

W Theme Ch. Tue 10-16 Wed 12-14   Exercises
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Introduction.

Order from disorder. Statistical mechanics, ------------------------------------------------------

1,2

Lect 1, Notes

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Lect 2, diffusion,RandomWalks

Misc. files

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Your turn 1A,

Prob 1.3, 2.2, 2.5

Random_walk_numerical

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What's inside cells

Brownian motion

2,3

Cancelled

Lect 3

Image analysis, Diffusion and fluid friction

 

Project 1: Active Passive walkers

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Active and passive motion, low Reynolds world

4,5

Lab: Browninan motion, Einstein 1905, Langevin 1908

Lect 4, Luiza, Active matter Students: Purcell: Life at low Reynolds

  Project 1: Active Passive walkers
37 Entropy, temperature, free energy 6

Lab: E coli experiment

Lect 5, Biological examples diffusion, entropy, quizz   Project 1: Active Passive walkers
38 Entropy, temperature, free energy 6,7, 11.1,11.2

Lect 6, Osmotic pressure and osmotic flux. Problems 6.6, 6.7

Lect 7, Electrolytes at membranes, ion flow, ion pumping

 

Your turn 6A-I, Exercise 9 from Gaute

39 Mechanobiology   Lect 8, Ion pumping, Physics of adherent cells,

Lect 9, Physics of adherent cells, Fluorescence imaging, Notes and papers

 

 

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41 Mechanobiology   Lect 10 Edna: "Single molecule talin stretching", quantitative imaging, Papers: Hu2016, Hu2017

Lect 11 From mechanobiology to Ising and Cellular Potts Models

Differential adhesion paper

   
42 Cellular Potts Model and cell migration  

Lect 12 Alvaro:  Lecture notes

Alvaro: CPM Simulation project

Book, Tumor growth model

 

CPM

Cell migration paper

  Project 2: CPM and cell migration
43 Cellular Potts Model and cell migration  

 

 

   
44 Ultrasound and mechanobiology  

Lect 13, Bio-effects of ultrasound

Lecture notes, papers

Seminar on US & mechanobiology

  Project 3: Ultrasound and mechanobiology
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Half of students not present

Ions at membranes, membrane potentials to action potential

11.1-2

12.1-2

      Project 3: Ultrasound and mechanobiology
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Lab, Thomas: Ultrasound experiment

     
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Curriculum FYS4715 Biological physics 2021

Philip Nelson "Biological Physics" chapters 1-7

Passive and active walkers

  • Lab experiments, methods (microscopy & image analysis), results, discussion
  • Random walk simulations
  • Papers in detail: Langevin 1908, Purcell 1977
  • Lecture notes

Mechanobiology

  • Lecture notes (Dag & Edna)
  • Papers (overview): DuFort 2011, Janmey 2011, Schwartz 2013 sec I-II, Hu2016, Hu2017
  • Biological effects of ultrasound: lecture notes, group presentations and background (papers, simulations...) of presentation
  • Maria and Karianne: Cooperativity in macromolecules (Nelson Ch 9), emphasis on presentation

Cellular Potts Model

  • Lecture notes (Alvaro and Dag)
  • Papers: Steinberg 2007, Chapter II.1 and II.2 in book Single-Cell-Based models in Biology and Medicine, Niculescu 2015
  • Simulations, results and discussion of cell sorting and cell migration
Publisert 11. aug. 2021 13:00 - Sist endret 26. nov. 2021 15:45