Lecture Series
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
Time: Fridays 3:00-4:00pm
Place: 144 Loomis
Laboratory
The life sciences will play a larger role in the future world of
science and technology. What are the issues that make the life sciences
grow? Outsiders find them often complex and impenetrable. Biological
Physics 001 will explain questions, concepts, and opportunities
in the field to non-biologists.
| Jan. 21 3:00-4:30pm |
Howard Berg (Harvard U.) |
How bacteria swim and
navigate
(see Physics Today, Jan. 2000, pp. 24-29) |
| Jan. 28 | Klaus Schulten | How muscle pulls |
| Feb. 4 | Enrico Gratton | How oxygen spreads in tissue |
| Feb. 11 | Colin Wraight | How cells conduct protons |
| Feb. 18 | Nancy Makri | How cells conduct electrons |
| Feb. 25 | Paul Selvin | How nerves fire |
| Mar. 3 | Antony Crofts | How cells part protons and electrons |
| Mar. 10 | Klaus Schulten | How nature harvests sunlight |
| Mar. 24 | Martin Gruebele | How proteins fold in vitro |
| Mar. 31 | Zan Luthey-Schulten | How proteins fold in silico |
| Apr. 7 | Andy Belmont | How cells store their genes |
| Apr. 14 | Robert Clegg | How molecules move in cells |
| Apr. 21 | Ian Robinson | How viruses infect |
| Apr. 28 | Joseph Malpeli | How the brain sees |
