Cal Poly Pomona PHY/BIO410
BIOPHYSICS

 

 

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FINAL EXAM GRADES.

Course grades will be posted on Bronco Direct

 

Student’s presentations: Talks are 10 minutes long + 5 minutes for questions.  Here is a  list of the presentations and dates:  Student’s presentations

 

 Midterm exam 1 :  Fri. 2/9/07.  The midterm is closed book. It will cover the following topics:

biomechanics and locomotion,  scaling laws, heating and cooling the body, mosquito population dynamics, and electron transfer in biomolecules
Remember to bring your calculator. No cell phones are allowed.

 

HW Due: end of class

 

Due Wed.  2/14/07

Evaluation of the roles of reactive species, heat, and UV radiation in the inactivation of bacterial cells by air plasmas at atmospheric pressure/ M. Laroussi, F. Leipold

Read paper#4 and answer the questions

 

Due Mon 1/29/07

Electron transfer in DNA / Bernd Giese

Read paper#3 and answer the questions

 

Due Mon 1/29/07

Ch13: 13.1,13.2,13.3, 13.5

Answers

 

Due Wed 1/17/07
Life’s Universal Scaling Laws/ Geoffrey B. West and James H. Brown

Read paper#2 and answer the questions

Optional reading: paper

 

Due Wed 1/17/07

Ch4 p.26-28:  4.3,4.5,4.6,4.8
Ch9 p.73: 9.1

Answers

 

Due Fri 1/5/07

Physics and engineering: milestones in medicine / P.N.T. Wells

Read the paper#1 and answer the questions

 

 

Reading assignments

 

Due Mon 2/19

Familiarize yourself with Dr . Sharma’s research

Dr. Sharma’s web page

 

Due Wed 2/21

Familiarize yourself with Dr .  Floriano’s  research

Here is one of her papers paper 1

 

 

Due Mon 2/5/07

 

Familiarize yourself with Dr. Siegel’s research. Here is on of Dr. Siegel’s papers:

Nonstationary time series analysis of heart rate variability

 

Due Wed 1/31/07

Review  class notes about Marcus theory

 

Due Wed 1/24/07

Familiarize yourself with Dr.  Von Bremen’s research

 

Here are 2 of  Dr.  Von Bremen’s  papers: paper 1 ,  paper 2

 

Due Mon 1/22

p.138-142

p.144-148

 

Due Fri 1/19

Familiarize yourself with Dr . Hoyt’s research

http://www.csupomona.edu/~dfhoyt/research/research.htm

Due Wed 1/17/07

p.88-89 section 10.11

Due Mon 1/8/07

p.15- 26

Due Wed 1/10/07

p.55-73

 

 

 

Additional resources:

 

Plasma/Dr.Abramzon

 

Dr. Mogul’s web page