Computational Biophysics

Catalog description

This course targets graduate students and upper level undergraduates with a background in physical chemistry. Proteins and other biomolecules perform all of the active functions that we associate with life, from muscle contraction to sensing light and sound. Like the machines we are used to operating on macroscopic scales, these molecular machines have many moving parts that are essential to their function and dysfunction. This course introduces a framework for reasoning about such dynamics and computational tools for interrogating them.