Biophysics
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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.