Molecular Biophysics III – Dynamics

*2:00 -3:30pm, Tuesday and Thursday, W1395 BST
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Date Topics Lecturer
1/6/05 General Introduction – Plan Bahar, Tang
1/11/05 Fluctuations vs. Rotational Isomeric Transitions in Macromolecules (Chapt 6 in Daune et al)
Lecture 2 (Fluctuations and MD Sim.)
Bahar
1/13/05 MD simulations (Leach) Camacho
1/18/05 Folding Kinetics  & Pathways (Chapters 18 and 19 in Fersht) Zuckerman
1/20/05 Conformational Changes (Chapt 8 in Daune) + Chapt 10 in Fersht Bahar
1/25/05 Chem Reaction Kinetics – Enzyme Kinetics- Michaelis Menten  (Chapt 3 in Fersht) Tang
1/27/05 Molecular dynamics and spin relaxation Tang
2/1/05 Relaxations for motions on ps-ns time scale I Tang
2/3/05 Relaxations for motions on ps-ns time scale II Tang
2/8/05 Relaxations for motions on ms-ms time scale Tang
2/10/05 NMR measurements for extremely slow motions Tang
2/15/05 Review Tang
2/17/05 1st Exam Tang
2/22/05 Folding of soluble protein model system lysozyme Klein-Seetharaman
2/24/05 Folding of membrane protein model system rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin Klein-Seetharaman
3/1/05 Equilibrium fluctuations in G protein coupled receptors Klein-Seetharaman
3/3/05 Functional conformational changes in G protein coupled receptors Klein-Seetharaman
3/8/05 Spring Break  
3/10/05 Spring Break  
3/15/05 Single-molecule dynamics I Leuba
3/17/05 Single-molecule dynamics II Leuba
3/22/05 Ion channels and electrophysiology I Levitan
3/24/05 Ion channels and electrophysiology II Levitan
3/29/05 Motions from EPR (I) Saxena
3/31/05 Motions from EPR (II) Saxena
4/5/05 Problem Review - 2nd Exam Tang
4/7/05 Brownian Motion (Chapt 7 in Daune et al) Camacho
4/12/05 Brownian Simulations (Chapt 7 in Daune et al.) Meirovitch
4/14/05 Ab initio simulations of folding using coarse-grained models (Rosetta etc.) Meirovitch
4/19/05 Essential dynamics and normal mode analysis (Chapter 6 in Daune et al.) Bahar
4/21/05 MC simulations – Coarse-grained methods Zuckerman
4/26/05 Analytical methods – Elastic Networks – Master equation Bahar
4/28/05 Final Exam  

 

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