Biophysics and biophysical chemistry

Description

This course uses short e-lectures which can be found at DTU LEARN and it is expected that the students have watched relevant e-lectures before each session. The e-lectures provide a short introduction to the different topics and make reference to more detailed treatments in the book (or supplementary information on DTU LEARN). In class there will be a short introduction to the topic by the teacher, and the main activity will be group work and exercises in smaller groups and student presentations. The groups will also work with case-stories that analyses biochemical and biophysical data. The course covers three areas: thermodynamics, kinetics and biophysics. In thermodynamics, we will work with selected topics in Part 1 of the textbook. This includes the application of the functions enthalpy and free energy for the description of protein stability and ligand binding. In kinetics, we will work with part 2 of the textbook and introduce formal rate equations within life science. We will analyze experimental data from pharmacokinetics, enzyme kinetics and the dynamics of ligand-receptor interactions. In the last part - biophysics - we study interactions between light and biomolecules (spectroscopy and microscopy) as well as the formal description of electric potentials across cell membranes. Not applicable together with: 26200 . 26201 . 26220 This course covers many (but not all) of the items discussed in the two courses 26200 and 26220, but on a less profound mathematical level. It also covers many (not all) topics from 27302