Special Topics in Molecular Biophysics: Biomembranes

Lecture, Tutorial and Lab

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Alexiev, FB Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, TP B03

Date: July 23-29, 2015

Time: 9:00am - 4.00pm (lecture, 2 SWS) and 4:00-6:30pm (tutorial, 1 SWS)

Location: Fachbereich Physik, FU Berlin, Arnimallee 14, seminar room E1 (1.1.26)

Number of Participants: 10 max

For more information please see Vorlesungsverzeichnis SoSe 2015.

Registration:
At the moment 3 places are still available for members of the CRC 1112.
Interested students please contact Dr. Alexander Boreham at alexander.boreham@fu-berlin.de until May 31, 2015.


Topics and Contents:
Structure of biomembranes, physical basis of their organisation, transport across and along membranes, electrostatics at the membrane/water interface, membrane proteins and membrane protein -lipid interaction, physical methods to study membranes

Tutorial and training content: membrane protein -lipid interaction, determination of surface potential, lipid diffusion, domain formation, techniques: steady-state and time resolved absorption and fluorescence techniques