| BIOPHYS227 | Functional MRI Methods | Basics of functional magnetic resonance neuroimaging, including data acquisition, analysis, and experimental design. Journal club sections. Cognitive neuroscience and clinical applications. Prerequisites: basic physics, mathematics; neuroscience reco... |
| BIOPHYS232 | Advanced Imaging Lab in Biophysics | Laboratory and lectures. Advanced microscopy and imaging, emphasizing hands-on experience with state-of-the-art techniques. Students construct and operate working apparatus. Topics include microscope optics, Koehler illumination, contrast-generating... |
| BIOPHYS235 | Biotransport Phenomena | The efficient transport of energy, mass, and momentum is essential to the normal function of living systems. Changes in these processes often result in pathological conditions. Transport phenomena are also critical to the design of instrumentation fo... |
| BIOPHYS241 | Biological Macromolecules | The physical and chemical basis of macromolecular function. Topics include: forces that stabilize macromolecular structure and their complexes; thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of macromolecular folding, binding, and allostery; diffusional pr... |
| BIOPHYS242 | Methods in Molecular Biophysics | Experimental methods in molecular biophysics from theoretical and practical standpoints. Emphasis is on X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, and fluorescence spectcroscopy. Prerequisite: physical chemistry or consent of... |
| BIOPHYS244 | Mechanotransduction in Cells and Tissues | Mechanical cues play a critical role in development, normal functioning of cells and tissues, and various diseases. This course will cover what is known about cellular mechanotransduction, or the processes by which living cells sense and respond to p... |
| BIOPHYS250 | Seminar in Biophysics | Required of Biophysics graduate students. Presentation of current research projects and results by faculty in the Biophysics program. May be repeated for credit. BIOPHYS 250 is a seminar course intended only for first year Biophysics and Structural B... |
| BIOPHYS279 | Computational Biology: Structure and Organization of Biomolecules and Cells | Computational techniques for investigating and designing the three-dimensional structure and dynamics of biomolecules and cells. These computational methods play an increasingly important role in drug discovery, medicine, bioengineering, and molecul... |
| BIOPHYS290 | CPT | CPT course required for international students completing degree. |
| BIOPHYS294 | Cellular Biophysics | Physical biology of dynamical and mechanical processes in cells. Emphasis is on qualitative understanding of biological functions through quantitative analysis and simple mathematical models. Sensory transduction, signaling, adaptation, switches, mol... |
| BIOPHYS297 | Bio-Inorganic Chemistry | (Formerly Chem 297) Overview of metal sites in biology. Metalloproteins as elaborated inorganic complexes, their basic coordination chemistry and bonding, unique features of the protein ligand, and the physical methods used to study active sites. Act... |
| BIOPHYS300 | Graduate Research | Investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
| BIOPHYS342A | Mechanobiology and Biofabrication Methods | Cell mechanobiology topics including cell structure, mechanical models, and chemo-mechanical signaling. Review and apply methods for controlling and analyzing the biomechanics of cells using traction force microscopy, AFM, micropatterning and cell st... |
| BIOPHYS371 | Computational Biology in Four Dimensions | Cutting-edge research on computational techniques for investigating and designing the three-dimensional structure and dynamics of biomolecules, cells, and everything in between. These techniques, which draw on approaches ranging from physics-based s... |
| BIOPHYS392 | Topics in Molecular Biophysics: Biophysics of Functional RNA (BIOPHYS 392) | Survey of methods used to relate RNA sequences to the structure and function of transcribed RNA molecules. Computation of contributions of the counter-ion cloud to the dependence of free energy on conformation of the folded RNA. The relation of struc... |
| BIOPHYS399 | Directed Reading in Biophysics | Prerequisite: consent of instructor. |
| BIOPHYS801 | TGR Project | No Description Set |
| BIOPHYS802 | TGR Dissertation | No Description Set |