Indroduction to modern molecular biophysics, its history, methods and
basic problems.
Plan of the lecture:
- Overview of origins of modern molecular biophysics.
- Elementary quantum mechanics of biomolecules.
- Molecular components of living cells.
- Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics in molecular biophysics.
- Biomolecular spectroscopy methods.
- Relaxation methods in molecular biophysics.
- Computer simulations in molecular biophysics.
- Replication of DNA and related problems.
- Structural transitions in DNA.
- Enzymes.
- Protein folding.
- Protein-nucleic acid interactions.
- Single molecules experiments.
- Molecular motors.
- Bioenergetics.
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