Course Catalog - 2005-2006

     

BIOS 551 - MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS I

Long Title: MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS
Department: Biosciences
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): BIOS 301 AND BIOS 352 or permission of instructor
Description: Introduction to principles, methods, and approaches employed in the study of energetics, structure, function of biological marcromolecules. Topics include solution and statistical thermodynamics, kinetics, theory of ligand binding, conformational equilibria, and calorimetry. The course will use laptops and introduce Mathematica as a tool for problem solving, simulation and programming. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: BIOS 481.