Resources for Teaching Biophysics

TEXTBOOK & READINGS

Resources for Teaching Biophysics: Current Articles reviewing the subject:

"The Biological Frontier of Physics", Rob Phillips and Stephen R. Quake, Physics Today May 2006, pp. 38-43.

"Resource Letter PBFi-1: Physical Frontiers in Biology", Eugenie Vorburger Mielczarek, Am. J. Phys. 74 (5), May 2006, pp. 375-381.

"Teaching Biological Physics", Ray Goldstein, Phil Nelson, and Tom Powers, Physics Today, March 2005, pp. 46.

Biophysics books of interest :

Applied Biophysics: A Molecular Approach for Physical Scientists, Tom A. Waigh, John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

Molecular Driving Forces: Statistical Thermodynamics in Chemistry and Biology, Ken A. Dill and Sarina Bromberg, Garland Science, 2003.

Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, Meyer B. Jackson, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK 2006.

Physics in Molecular Biology, Kim Sneppen & Giovanni Zocchi, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK (2005).

Mechanics of the Cell, David Boal, Cambridge University Press, 2002. Mechanics of the Cell Course website (David Boal)--typos & other materials

(book manuscript available via Blackboard): Physical Biology of the Cell, Ron Phillips, Jane Kondev and Julie Theriot. See the course website for materials

Philip Nelson, Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life, Publisher: W H Freeman & Co; (July 2003)

Methods in Modern Biophyiscs, Bengt Nolting, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2004.

Biophysics Educational Resources On-Line, Biophysical Society: Entries on: Molecular Structure and Behavior and Biophysical Techniques and Biophysical mechanisms and Teaching Biophysics/Careers in Biophysics.

Glaser, Roland, Biophysics, New York : Springer, 2001.

Cotterill, Rodney, Biophysics : an introduction, Chichester ; New York : Wiley, 2002

Physics with illustrated examples from medicine and biology, George B. Benedek, Felix M.H. Villars, AIP Press, NY 2000: Vol. 1,2 & 3; especially vol.2, Chapter 1, pp. 41-57 on random coil polymers; Problem 1-26 (pg. 86-88).

Biology at the single molecule level / edited by S.H. Leuba, and J. Zlatanova Publisher Amsterdam ; New York : Pergamon, 2001.

Biophysics problems : a textbook with answers, Péter Maróti, László Berkes, and Ferenc Tölgyesi , Budapest : Akadémiai Kiadó, 1998.

Computational biochemistry and biophysics, edited by Oren M. Becker, New York : M. Dekker, 2001

Molecular biophysics : structures in motion, Michel Daune, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

The physical basis of biochemistry : the foundations of molecular biophysics, Peter R. Bergethon,New York : Springer, 1998

An Introduction to Environmental Biophysics, Gaylon S. Campbell & John R. Norman, Springer, New York, 1998.

Physics of biological systems : from molecules to species, Henrik Flyvbjerg ed., Berlin ; New York : Springer, 1997

Cellular biophysics, Thomas Fischer Weiss, Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1996. (This two-volume 1400 page set by the professor's undergraduate biophysics prof lets you see that she isn't making up how hard her MIT courses were!)

Random Walks in Biology, Howard Berg, Princeton University Press, 1993.

E. Coli in Motion, Howard Berg, 2001.

Related Books on Soft Matter Physics and Polymer Physics:

Soft Condensed Matter, Richard A. L. Jones, Oxford University Press, 2002.

The Colloidal Domain: where physics, chemistry, biology and technology meet, D. Fennell Evans, Hakan Wennerstrom, VCH Publishers, New York, 1999.

Scaling Concepts in Polymer Physics, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Cornell, 1988.

MAST (Materials Science and Technology), Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Illinois, Urbana at: http://matse1.mse.uiuc.edu/~tw/

Introduction to liquid crystals: chemistry and physics, Peter J. Collings and Michael Hird, London ; Bristol, PA : Taylor & Francis, 1997: Chapters 1 and 2; we will cover highlights of 3-6, 9 and 12 in lecture.

Soft Matter Physics, M. Daoud, C.E. Williams Eds., Springer-Verlag, 1999: "Fractals" M. Daoud and H. Van Damme, pp. 46- 86.Statistical Physics: Part 1, L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1980; pp. 396-400.

Soft and fragile matter: nonequilibrium dynamics, metastability, and flow, edited by M.E. Cates, M.R. Evans, Institute of Physics Publishing, Briston, Philadelphia, 2000.

Statistical Thermodynamics of Surfaces, Interfaces and Membranes, Samuel A. Safran, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1994.

Micelles, monolayers, and biomembranes, Malcolm N. Jones, Dennis Chapman, New York : Wiley-Liss, 1995.

Physics of Complex and Supramolecular Fluids, edited by Samuel A. Safran and Noel A. Clark, Wiley, NY 1987.

Collings, Peter J., "Liquid crystal displays" , Am. J. Phys., 63(11), 1044-1048 (1995).

McDonald, Kirk T. "Laser tweezers", Am. J. Phys., 68 (5), 486- (2000).

Biosensors, NanoBio, etc.

Molecular engineering of nanosystems / Edward A. Rietman Publisher New York : Springer, 2001

Nanotechnology / Gregory Timp, editor, New York : Springer, 1999

Molecular electronics : science and technology, edited by Ari Aviram and Mark Ratner, New York : New York Academy of Sciences, 1998

Introduction to bioanalytical sensors, Alice J. Cunningham New York : Wiley, 1998.

Molecular electronics, edited by J. Jortner and M. Ratner, Osney Mead, Oxford [England] ; Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell Science, 1997

Nanofabrication and biosystems : integrating materials science, engineering, and biology, edited by Harvey C. Hoch, Lynn W. Jelinski, Harold G. Craighead , Cambridge [England] ; Cambridge University Press, 1996

Biosensors : an introduction, Brian R. Eggins, Chichester ; New York : Wiley-Teubner, 1996.

An introduction to molecular electronics, edited by Michael C. Petty, Martin R. Bryce, and David Bloor, New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

Webpages

Chemistry 110/Physics 139: The Physical Basis of Biomolecular Structure and Function, Andrea Stout and Kathleen Howard, Physics and Chemistry Departments (Swarthmore College). Readings and problem sets.

Physics 4710 - Introduction to Biophysics, Dr. Stephen J. Hagen, University of Florida. Syllabus, sample questions.

Polymer Dynamics, Biotechnology, Energy Transfer, Cellular Dynamics, Robert H. Austin, Princeton University, Biophysics Notes and Lab Manual.

Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology (BBMB) at Iowa State University.

Protein Society Protein Teaching webpage

http://ice.chem.wisc.edu/ice/materials/teachersusing.html Institute for Chemical Education Materials Science Modules (information on materials, including polymers).

Boston University Center for Polymer Studies