Difference between revisions of "Biophysics"
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* Random walk models of bacterial chemotaxis. | * Random walk models of bacterial chemotaxis. | ||
* Models of microtubules growth. | * Models of microtubules growth. | ||
| + | * Models of molecular motors. | ||
* Thermodynamics of a DNA zipper. | * Thermodynamics of a DNA zipper. | ||
| − | * Thermodynamics of polymers. | + | * Thermodynamics of polymers. Notion of persistence length. |
| + | * Random Energy Model for protein structure. | ||
| + | * Energy and forces involved in DNA packing. | ||
| + | * Fluid dynamics. Life at low Reynolds numbers, reversibility of the equations of motion. Computation of the drag force for simple geometries (sphere). | ||
| + | * Diffusion equation. | ||
Revision as of 18:31, 18 March 2008
Some topics and questions that were asked in the past:
- Statistics of the number bacteria surviving antibiotic selection through the appearance of benefitial mutations.
- Notion of effective temperature for the expression level of a gene in a network.
- Random walk models of bacterial chemotaxis.
- Models of microtubules growth.
- Models of molecular motors.
- Thermodynamics of a DNA zipper.
- Thermodynamics of polymers. Notion of persistence length.
- Random Energy Model for protein structure.
- Energy and forces involved in DNA packing.
- Fluid dynamics. Life at low Reynolds numbers, reversibility of the equations of motion. Computation of the drag force for simple geometries (sphere).
- Diffusion equation.
