Course Level:
Third Year
Academic Year:
2020/2021
Diffusion and Transport Phenomena
• Diffusion in one, two, and three dimensions
Random walk (Brownian motion)
Fick's laws
Stokes-Einstein equation and molecular shapes
• Electrophoresis
• Sedimentation
Svedberg equation
Equilibrium and velocity sedimentation
• Mass spectrometry
Macromolecular Interactions
• Thermodynamics and kinetics of macromolecular binding
• Analytical methods
Biochemical/genetic approaches
Spectroscopy (absorbance, fluorescence, circular/linear dichroism)
Isothermal titration calorimetry
Surface plasmon resonance
• Structure and dynamics
• Allostery and co-operativity
• Single molecule approaches