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Physics of Biological Systems

Prof. Mithun Mitra · IIT Bombay

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Lectures

Week 1

  1. Lecture 1: Introduction Video
  2. Lecture 2: DNA packing and structure Video
  3. Lecture 3: Shape and function Video
  4. Lecture 4: Numbers and sizes Video
  5. Lecture 5: Spatial scales and System variation Video
  6. Lecture 6: Timescales in Biology Video

Week 2

  1. Lecture 7: Random walks and Passive diffusion Video
  2. Lecture 8: Random walks to model Biology Video
  3. Lecture 9: Derivation of FRAP equations Video
  4. Lecture 10: Drift-diffusion equations Video
  5. Lecture 11: Solutions of the drift-diffusion equations Video
  6. Lecture 12: The cell signaling problem Video

Week 3

  1. Lecture 13: Cell Signalling and Capture Probability of absorbing sphere Video
  2. Lecture 14: Capture probability of reflecting sphere Video
  3. Lecture 15: Mean capture time Video
  4. Lecture 16: Introduction to fluids, viscosity and reynolds number Video
  5. Lecture 17: Introduction to the navier stokes equation Video
  6. Lecture 18: Understanding reynolds number Video

Week 4

  1. Lecture 19: Life at low reynolds number Video
  2. Lecture 20: Various phenomena at low reynolds number Video
  3. Lecture 21: Bacterial flagellar motion Video
  4. Lecture 22: Rotating flagellum Video

Week 5

  1. Lecture 23: Energy and equilibrium Video
  2. Lecture 24: Binding problems Video
  3. Lecture 25: Transcription and translation Video
  4. Lecture 26: Internal states of macromolecules Video
  5. Lecture 27: Protein modification problem Video
  6. Lecture 28: Haemoglobin-Oxygen binding problem Video

Week 6

  1. Lecture 29: Freely jointed polymer model Video
  2. Lecture 30: Entropic springs and persistence length Video
  3. Lecture 31: Freely rotating chain model and radius of gyration Video
  4. Lecture 32: The hierarchical chromatin packing model Video
  5. Lecture 33: FISH & DNA looping Video
  6. Lecture 34: Nucleosomes as barriers, Hi-C, and contact probabilities Video

Week 7

  1. Lecture 35: Deriving the full force extension curve Video
  2. Lecture 36: Random walk models for proteins Video
  3. Lecture 37: Hydrophobic polar protein model Video
  4. Lecture 38: Diffusion in crowded environments Video
  5. Lecture 39: Depletion interactions Video
  6. Lecture 40: Examples & implications of depletion interactions Video

Week 8

  1. Lecture 41: Introduction to Biological dynamics Video
  2. Lecture 42: Introduction to rate equations Video
  3. Lecture 43: Separation of timescales in enzyme kinetics Video
  4. Lecture 44: Structure and treadmilling of actins and microtubules Video
  5. Lecture 45: Average length of polymers in equilibrium Video
  6. Lecture 46: Growth rate of polymers Video

Week 9

  1. Lecture 47: Dynamic treadmilling in microtubules Video
  2. Lecture 48: Introduction to molecular motors Video
  3. Lecture 49: Force generation by molecular motors Video
  4. Lecture 50: Models of motor motion Video

Week 10

  1. Lecture 51: molecular motors Video
  2. Lecture 52: Free energies of motor for stepping Video
  3. Lecture 53: Two state models Video
  4. Lecture 54: cooperative transport of cargo Video

Week 11

  1. Lecture 55: Cytoskeleton as a motor Video
  2. Lecture 56: translocation ratchet Video
  3. Lecture 57: Spatial pattern in biology Video
  4. Lecture 58: Some common spatial patterns in biology Video

Study Material

  1. Lecture 59: reaction diffusion and spatial pattern Video
  2. Lecture 60: Pattern formation in reaction diffusion system with stability Video
  3. Lecture 61: Condition for destablization in pattern formation Video
  4. Lecture 62: Schnakenberg kinetics Video

Live Session

  1. Live Session 08-02-2021 Video
  2. Live Session 18-03-2021 Video
  3. Live Session 20-02-2020 Video

Syllabus and materials

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Bombay
Department
Physics
Teacher
Prof. Mithun Mitra
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Physics
Source
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