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Bio-Physics II
principles of NMR imaging systems, biological effect of NMR imaging, advantages of NMR imaging system, cryo electron microscopy; High resolution light microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Single molecule manipulation.
X-Rays: Electromagnetic spectrum. Production and Properties of X-rays, harmful effects of X-rays. X-Ray Imaging, Construction, function and operation of compute and digital radiographic systems.X ray tube and x-ray beam.Image receptors for computed and digital radiography.Scatterrejection.Contrast media – iodine, barium and air.Dual energy radiography.Film screen radiography,Mammography,Radiographictomography and tomosynthesis
Theoretical and experimental approaches to study protein folding; Introduction to Membrane Biophysics.Structure and function of membranes, experimental and theoretical tools for studying biological membrane.
Structure of Proteins and Nucleic Acids: Primary and secondary structure, Ramachandran plot, conformational analysis, tertiary structure, structure of a nucleotide chain, the DNA double helix model, polymorphism.
Molecular Forces in Biological Structures: Electrostatic interactions, hydrophobic and hydrophilic forces, hydrogen bonding interactions, ionic interactions, stabilizing forces in proteins and nucleic acids, steric interactions.
1. Spectroscopy for the Biological Sciences: Gordon G; Wiley-Interscience; 1st edition; 2005.
2. Biophysical Chemistry: Part II: Techniques For The Study Of Biological Structure and Function by Charles R. Cantor and Paul Reinhart Schimmel; pp 503. W H Freeman and Co, Oxford. 1980.
3. Cantor, C. R., and Schimmel, P., Biophysical Chemistry (parts I, II and III), W. H. Freeman, 1980.
4. Serdyuk, I. N., Zaccai, N. R.,andZaccai, J.,Methods in Molecular Biophysics: Structure, Dynamics, Function, Cambridge, 2007.
