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Statistical Physics in Biology

KU Leuven, Spring 2013

Lecture 6


Cell Motion

  1. Brownian motion: (seminar, offline)
  2. Crawling cells
  3. Swimming cells:
Membranes
  1. Membrane Structure and Function: Cells are enclosed by membranes
  2. The Canham-Helfrich energy of a membrane
  3. Red blood cells
  4. Transport in and out of cells
    [Lecture Notes]

DNA packing

Slides by Anton Goloborodko

  1. In eukaryotic cell DNA is confined to the cell nuclues
  2. Chromosome conformation capture (video)
  3. Fractal globule

Protein DNA interactions

  1. Regulation of genes by protein-DNA interactions  (L. Mirny slides)
  2. Structure of protein-DNA complexes 
  3. Energetics of Protein-DNA binding
  4. Kinetics of binding
    [Exercises]

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