Tai-Huang Huang & Chi-Ming Chen

Reference books: "Cell and Molecular Biology -- Concepts and Experiments" by Karp
"Biophysics -- An Introduction" by Rodney Cotterill
Contents
Part I: Introduction to Cell Biology
1. Structures of Cells [pdf]
2. The Chemical Basis of Life [pdf]
3. Bioenergetics, Enzymes, and Metabolism [pdf]
4. The Nature of the Gene and the Genome
5. Cellular Reproduction [pdf]

Home work solutions [1,2]

Part II: Theoretical Biophysics
1. Review of Thermodynamics [ppt]
2. Introduction to Polymer Physics [ppt]
3. Computer Simulations [ppt]
4. A Special topic on Protein Folding [ppt]

5. RNA folding

6. Stress-induced structural transitions in proteins and DNAs [ppt]

7. Sequencing DNAs [ppt]

8. Biomembranes [ppt]

9. Neurons and Neural Networks

Part III: Experimental Biophysics

1. NMR Spectroscopy (1,2,3,4) [ppt 1,2,3,4]

2. MRI

3. X-ray crystallography [ppt]

4. Optical Spectroscopy [ppt]

Class Photos [1,2]