Individual course details
Study programme Theoretical and experimental physics
Chosen research area (module)  
Nature and level of studies Master studies
Name of the course Biophysics
Professor (lectures) Prof. Milan Knežević
Professor/associate (examples/practical)  
Professor/associate (additional)  
ECTS 10 Status (required/elective) elective
Access requirements statistical physics
Aims of the course Learn the main concepts, laws and methods of bophysics.
Learning outcomes Students will be able to apply the acquired knowledge and methods in studies of simple biophysical systems.
Contents of the course
Lectures Introduction to the physics of biopolymers:  random walks model, entropic forces, collapse of homopolymers,  DNA collapse,  helix-coil  transition,  DNA and RNA structures, Protein structures, Protein folding, Molecular motors,  Physics of genetic regulation. Molecular networks. Models of evolution.
Examples/ practical classes  
Recommended books
1 K. Sneppen, G. Zocchi, Physics in Molecular Biology,  Cambridge UP (2005) 
2 R. Cotterly, Biophysics, J. Wiley and Sons (2002)
3 W. Poon, D. Andelman, Soft Condensed Matter Physics in Molecular and Cell Biology, Taylor and Francis (2006)
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Number of classes (weekly)
Lectures Examples&practicals   Student project Additional
         
Teaching and learning methods lectures, consultation,project
Assessment (maximal 100)
assesed coursework mark examination mark
coursework 20 written examination  
practicals 30 oral examination 50
papers      
presentations