Optical and analysis methods for measuring the organization, dynamics, and interactions of proteins in living cells.
Room 2218 PAIS
e-mail: klidke@unm.edu
Monday and Wednesday at 15:30-16:45 in PAIS 1140, 2410, 2409 The logistics and scheduling of lab experiments will depend on the number of students and the modules under study.
This course is designed to provide a flexible biophysics curriculum for undergraduate and graduate students from a range of majors and degree programs including Physics and Astronomy, Optics, Engineering and Biomedical Science. This is not a lecture-based course, it is instead organized around a selection of guided study modules that cover a wide range of topics in biophysics, microscopy and spectroscopy. Many modules have a significant laboratory component. The course can be taken for 1 to 3 credits where each credit requires three modules (9 modules required for 3 credits). The class may be taken twice for up to a total of 6 credits.
There is no required text for the class. Many reference resources will be listed or linked in each module.
Letter grades correspond with numerical scores as given by this scale: Grade Scale. Grades will be assigned based on the following:
Homework assignments and lab experiments will be specific to each module.
Each module has a corresponding final exam. Exam proctoring will be offered once per week a time and place TBD.
The modules listed below have attributes indicated by:
Appropriate for all undergraduates and graduate students
Appropriate for upper division physics majors and all graduate students
-X counts as X modules
(L) laboratory component
^ Available in Fall 2024. Contact instructor if you had planned to start with other modules.
* May not be available in Fall 2024. Contact instructor if you plan to take this module.
This section will be periodically updated to provide more details about the modules.
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Download and install the latest version of MATLAB (e.g. R2024b). We will not need or use most toolboxes. If you want to save download time and disk space, just install MATLAB and these toolboxes:
Statistics
Symbolic Math Toolbox
Image Processing Toolbox
Optimization Toolbox
Parallel Computing Toolbox
Signal Processing Toolbox
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