Frontiers in Biophysics

Harvard FAS

This interdisciplinary course will explore the physical interactions that underpin life: the interactions of molecules, macromolecular structures, membranes, and cells in warm, wet, squishy environments. Topics will include Brownian motion, diffusion in a potential field, continuum mechanics of polymers, rods, and membranes, electrophysiology and excitable media, low Reynolds number flow, interfacial forces, electrostatics in solution. The course will also cover recently developed biophysical…