PHYS7741 (Physics of Biological Processes and Living Systems 2) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Continues PHYS 7731. Focuses on theoretical approaches to understand complex emergent properties of living systems on molecular to organ scales. Topics include the physics of biopolymers with applications to DNA stretching and structural transitions, biomolecular reactions and their analysis in the framework of nonlinear dynamics including models of collective oscillations, the structure and dynamics of small and large transcriptional regulatory networks in bacteria and eukaryotic cells, Hodgkin-Huxley equations and their extension to reaction-diffusion models of wave dynamics in biological excitable media, Turing patterns and spatiotemporal control of cell fate during development, single and collective cell migration, neural networks in the brain and bio-inspired artificial neural networks. Includes the analysis of several illustrative experimental data sets.
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