The exercises will be held in the tradition of the former “Biophysics seminar”: this means that the participants will give talks on topics of modern biophysical research (for topics, see on the bottom of this page).

Preparation:

-literature search

-consideration of at least one recent English original paper

-powerpoint or transparency presentations, length ~45 min

-talk has to be in final form and to be delivered to me at least ONE WEEK in advance!

Place and time: room 224, on Thursday ~ 15.15.

24.05.

# 1

Sebastian Haupt

07.06.

14.06.

Steve Pawliczak

Number code of the topics: please, see below.

List of topics:

1) optical traps and tweezers as tools in biophysics

2) protein folding and furnishing

3) molecular motors working in cells

4) modern fluorescence microscopy techniques (confocal, multi-photon..)

5) biophysics on the single-molecule level

6) Structure and function of the light sensitive receptor rhodopsin (protein structure I)

7) lipid vesicle shapes and energetics

8) Structural basis of Prion diseases (protein structure II)

9) DNA and RNA forms and phases (NA structure)

10) channels, measurements of their function

11) Biological membrane models, diffusion und its measurement

12) concept of lipid raft in living cells (rafts I)

13) physical properties of artificial lipid raft systems (rafts II)

14) components and basic physical properties of the cytoskeleton

15) self assembly, lipid phases and the effect of curvature (lipid phase behavior I)

16) Benjamin Franklin found molecular monolayers, a playground for (bio)physicists (lipid phase behavior II)

17) Bacterial S-layer proteins: structure and application

18) Mechanics of cells

19) Pattern formation in biology

Further suggestion welcome!

Questions/comments? Please, contact/consult me in order to do the preparation.

Dr. Carsten Selle, email: selle@physik.uni-leipzig.de