Biophysics/Introduction

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 * Biologie Moléculaire http://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Département:Biologie_moléculaire
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 * Portal:Physical Sciences

Département de Biophysique

 * Departement: Biophysique:
 * "Cette discipline aboutit à l'utilisation de moyens modernes d'investigation qualitatifs et quantitatifs en Biologie comme en Médecine, ainsi que, dans cette dernière, à des moyens thérapeutiques à partir de l'utilisation notamment des ondes et radiations."

"La biophysique est l'étude des phénomènes physiques intervenant chez les êtres vivants."
 * Faculté de Biologie

Département de Biologie Moléculaire
"La biologie moléculaire est une discipline scientifique au croisement de la génétique, de la biochimie et de la physique, dont l'objet est la compréhension des mécanismes de fonctionnement de la cellule au niveau moléculaire. La biochimie est la discipline scientifique qui étudie les réactions chimiques ayant lieu au sein des cellules."
 * Département de Biologie Moléculaire

Languages: (en),(fr), (ro)



 * "Biophysics is the study of physical phenomena that occur in living beings"..., but without a definition of Life, or of the "living", the subject of Biophysics would remain only vaguely pointing at functional organisms. Determining what Life is also remains, therefore, in the domain of Biophysics--specifically of Mathematical biophysics or Relational Biology. In other words, one is asking:
 * What are the fundamental relations among the components and processes, and also  among relations occurring in an organism that distinguish the latter from a simple or complex physical system, such as a crystal, a stone, a machine or automaton, a robot, a computer, and so on ?
 * A related question is that of the underlying operational logics of an organism (which is not Boolean, and it is not perhaps even a quantum logic), and of its defining axioms.

Welcome to an International Biophysics Course !

 * Lecture notes can be now obtained in: English (en), French (fr) and Romanian (ro), (ISO 691-1) languages.
 * New instructors or students may add, however, more languages-- among those already approved by the Wikiversity for such educational and research web site projects.
 * The addition to this website of specialized expert new lectures or lecture notes or web links to Lecture notes and other Biophysics or Crystallography departments-- that fit in with the announced Syllabus-- is encouraged and appreciated.
 * For questions regarding Ph.D. review questions in Crystallography see also Doctoral review questions in Crystallography
 * [[image:DNA animation.gif|thumb|225px|right|DNA Double-helix Molecular Model]]

Syllabus
Up-to-date descriptions of the background, methods and techniques of protein crystallography, including the mathematical concepts and tools needed to understand X-ray and neutron diffraction, as well as 2D-FT NMR determination of molecular structure in solution. (See also a simple introduction to Proton (H-1) NMR (fr))
 * Protein and Nucleic Acid Structure and Dynamics:
 * Protein crystallography is a multidisciplinary area of research that overlaps in part with several subfields of biochemistry, structural molecular biology, bioinformatics, biophysics, biochemistry and organic chemistry.


 * Introduction to Crystallography (fr)-- Lectures (Leçons): 2. Crystal Systems (lattices), 3. Close packing, 4. Crystal Types, 5. Examples of Crystals, 6. Interstitial lattice sites 7. Crystal Defects, 8. Noncrystalline systems

Lecture 15:Examples of crystal lattices: fcc, bcc, diamond; Miller indices of crystal lattice planes.
 * Introduction to group theory
 * Mathematics of theoretical physics
 * Group Theory for Physicists
 * General assistance with mathematics
 * Materials Science and Engineering/List of Topics--Lecture 14:Introduction to the Solid State: The Seven Crystal Systems;The Fourteen Bravais Lattices


 * /Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy/ (FCS) and confocal imaging microscopy of cellular processes and structures.
 * Single molecule detection (SMD) and enzyme kinetics.


 * Microscopy of Cell Structure, Dynamics and Physiological Function.


 * Mathematical Foundations of Biophysics:
 * Computational biophysics: Molecular Dynamics and computer simulation techniques (e.g., Monte Carlo)
 * Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Biophysics and Quantum Biochemistry
 * Harmonic analysis in Medical Diagnostic Imaging and Patient image processing, contrast enhancement or reconstruction
 * Modelling cells and multicellular organisms
 * Biotopology and Algebraic Topology applications to Mathematical Biophysics
 * Relational Networks and Categories of Metabolic-Replication Systems
 * Relational Biology applications to understanding Aging and Metabolic Disorders


 * [[image:Seawifs global biosphere.jpg|thumb|center|300px|Photosynthesis in the Biosphere]]


 * [[image:Simple photosynthesis overview.svg|thumb|right|225px]]


 *  Syllabus of an International Course on Photosynthesis
 * Structure and Dynamics of Photosynthetic Membranes
 * Quantum mechanisms of photosynthetic water oxidation in algae and higher plants
 * Mechanisms of PS I photosystem
 * Manganese and calcium ion role(s) in photosynthetic water oxidation
 * The Oxygen Evolving Complex: Structure and Function
 * FCS applications to Photosynthesis
 * Single Molecule Detection and Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy studies of Photosynthesis
 * High-field and 2D-NMR investigations of Photosynthetic Mechanisms
 * FT-NIR Spectroscopy and Hyper-spectral/Chemical Imaging of Photosynthetic Cells and Functional Chloroplasts
 * IR spectrometry

Learning materials and introductory articles

 * Metabolic pathways
 * 1) C4 carbon fixation: trace experiments with radioactive labels
 * 2) Quantum physics aspects of Photosynthesis
 * 3) Photosynthetic systems: PSI and PSII coupling
 * aquaporin
 * 1) Specific chloride channels
 * Hydronium ion
 * 1) Specific w:Hydronium ion
 * Beta counting
 * 1) Regulation of metabolic pathways
 * 2) Specific inhibitors of photosynthesis, such as hydroxylamine (NH2OH) and uncouplers
 * 3) Gas chromatography and mass spectrometry
 * 4) Gamma counting
 * 5) Enzyme assays
 * 6) Micronutrients
 * 7) Manganese ions' role(s) in photosynthesis
 * 8) Neutron activation analysis of Mn contents in purified, active thylakoid (photosynthetic) membranes and PSII-particles
 * 9) Enzymes
 * 10) Krebs' cycle
 * 11) Pyruvate decarboxylation
 * 12) The ATP cycle and its coupling to photosynthetic processes
 * 13) Oxidative phosphorilation
 * 14) Calvin Cycle
 * 15) Dickens-Horecker cycle
 * 16) Hexose interconversions
 * 17) Neoglucogenesis
 * 18) Glycogenesis
 * 19) Glycogenolysis
 * 20) Cori cycle
 * 21) fatty acids
 * 22) Essential fatty acids
 * 23) poly-unsaturated fatty acids (PUFA);
 * 24) eicosanoids: prostaglandins, thromboxanes, prostacyclin and leukotrienes.
 * 25) The lipid bilayer, item, and transport across the bilayer through pores, channels, etc.
 * 26) PCR

Selected Examples



 * 1) Bessel functions arise in many mathematical models such as those for vibrating surfaces. Such functions also occur in the analysis of X-ray Diffraction patterns of helical molecules such as certain proteins and also nucleic acids (DNAs, RNAs.)

"When mathematically analyzing a vibrating drum the boundary conditions lead to solutions that are harmonic functions. When using cylindrical coordinates, the solutions are sines, cosines or Bessel functions (in the radial direction)".

Course textbooks

 * H.R. Wilson. ``Diffraction of X-rays by Proteins, Nucleic acids and Viruses'' London: Arnold publs. (1966).
 * Lehninger. "Biochemistry", latest edition.
 * D.W. Ball. "Physical Chemistry". (2003).
 * Voet & Voet. "Biochemistry". J.Wiley:Oxford, U.K.(2000).
 * Advanced DNA Techniques
 * Molecular Modelling and Dynamics
 * Spectroscopy and Imaging: Principles, Theory, Techniques and Applications

Things remaining to do-Short list

 * 1) Continue and expand lectures
 * 2) New Instructor involvement in biophysics courses
 * 3) Web links to biophysics and protein structure syllabi at several universities
 * 4) Add other resources (such as: Structure and Genomic Databases, Image libraries and galleries, Library links, and so on.
 * 5) Develop student Enrollment and student Help pages

Leçons par thèmes = Lectures by subject

 * Données de physique utilisées en biologie [Modifier]

Leçons par niveau = Lectures by level

 * Novice Niveau 0 à 2	Débutant Niveau 2 à 5	Intermédiaire Niveau 6 à 9
 * Avancé Niveau 10 à 12
 * Données de physique utilisées en biologie
 * Expert Niveau 13 à 15
 * Ondes et optique géométrique
 * Perfectionnement Niveau 16 à 18
 * Modèle:2--Microspéctroscopie et Analyse Biochimique des Images d'Embryon. Modifier!

Instructors
If you have knowledge in this field, please post your name here to answer questions from students.

Short list of course consultants and instructors:

 * User:Bci21- Instructor & Professor-Professeur
 * Biophysik
 * Y
 * Z

External links for the International Biophysics Course

 * Wikipedia biophysics article
 * Biophysical Society
 * Biophysical Journal
 * British Biophysical Society
 * Society for Mathematical Biology
 * Relational Biology
 * [http://www.biophysics.org/2012china/Home/tabid/2984/Default.aspx
 * Weak Protein-Ligand Interactions:
 * NMR Spectroscopy,Mass Spectroscopy,
 * X-Ray Crystallography, Small Angle Light Scattering,
 * In Vivo Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer(FRET),Single Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy,
 * Atomic Force Microscopy]


 * Basics
 * 1) The International System of Units, item
 * 2) Nomenclature of organic chemistry,item,
 * 3) Logarithms
 * 4) Nuclides
 * 5) Radioactive decay
 * 6) gas laws, Gases and Gas Laws
 * 7) Partial pressure and mole fraction
 * 8) Osmosis
 * 9) Diffusion
 * 10) pH, pKa's and titration
 * 11) Buffers
 * Biomolecules -- Structures, classification and properties of:
 * 1) Nucleic acids
 * 2) Amino acids
 * 3) Protein
 * 4) Carbohydrate
 * 5) Lipid
 * Laboratory and Analytical Methods
 * 1) Simple (glass) laboratory equipment and how to use it
 * 2) Laboratory safety
 * 3) Size exclusion chromatography
 * 4) UV-VIS Spectrometry
 * 5) Centrifugation and Ultracentrifugation
 * 6) Electrophoresis
 * 7) Chromatography


 * Amino acids
 * 1) Decarboxylation
 * 2) Transamination
 * 3) General amino acid synthesis
 * 4) General amino acid catabolism
 * 5) Special amino acid metabolism
 * 6) Amino acid interconversion
 * 7) Urea cycle, item
 * 8) Gamma-glutamyl cycle
 * 9) Associated: Gout,Maple syrup disease
 * Proteins
 * 1) In vivo nucleic acids synthesis
 * 2) Nucleic acid degradation, pyrimidine and purine catabolism
 * 3) Peptide bond
 * 4) In vivo protein synthesis

Virtual Labs
(Schéma d'un analyseur de type trappe ionique (pièges à ions) 3D et trajectoire des ions, en spectrométrie de mass).


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