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Course Outline
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Bacterial Photosynthesis:
- Architecture of the cellular apparatus
- Participating proteins and their functions
- Formation of the apparatus
- Physical mechanisms underlying the function of individual components
- Coordination of functions of multiple components
Life cycle of slime mold amoebae:
- Biological clocks and signaling
- Organization of amoebae motion
- Morphogentic fields from
reaction-diffusion processes in amoebae colony
- Normal mode analysis of pattern formation
- Chemotaxis
- Cellular automata to describe
self-aggregation of multi-cellular slug from colony of individual
amoebae
- Organization principles for slug motion and development
- Slime mold genomics
Vision:
- Molecular sensing
- Signal amplification through G-Proteins
- Synaptic transmission
- Neural spikes
- Cable equation
- Morphogenesis of visual maps in LGN and cortex
- Neural computation: Associative networks
- Self-organizing maps, visual maps, motor maps, visuo-motor control.