Designing an Introductory Physics Course For Biology Majors.
Jun Lab - Quantitative And Physical Approach to Biology Physics and Molecular Biology - Urey Hall 6249-6253, UCSD. The driving force of our lab is the curiosity and desire to understand how and why the biological systems are the way they are. We are often attracted to long-standing questions in biology, for which quantitative, inter- and multi.
This is the website for PY 571, Biological Physics. This website will be updated with lecture notes and homework assignments. General course information: We meet TH 11-12:20 in SCI 328. Office hours M 2-3 in SCI 323. Syllabus pdf. Textbooks worth reading: Bill Bialek's Biophyics: Searching for Principles.
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We see the emerging discipline of bioinformatics not as a focus for training but rather as an opportunity to introduce quantitative, computational molecular biology into the undergraduate curriculum. Typical bioinformatics problems provide a rich source of interdisciplinary experiences in which students must combine biological knowledge with computer science, modeling, probabilistic analysis.
Biology, after all, is a good deal harder than physics. If scientific research is stumbling around in a dark cellar looking for a black cat, then biology is doing so without knowing there is a cat there until one accidentally falls over it.
Physical Biology of the Cell might well become a similar classic (as Molecular Biology of the Cell) for anyone who heeds its mantra “quantitative data demand quantitative models.” It will give both physicists and biologists a useful introduction into the other camp’s methods and ways of thinking.” —Ralf Bundschuh, Physics Today, 2009.
A recent proposal for a new national initiative (toward “the New Biology”) identifies health issues as one of four key areas where a systems biology approach and improvements in mathematical and statistical modeling will be prerequisites for progress: “Although there are increasing efforts to apply quantitative approaches to biological questions, more must be done to transform biology.