CHEMENG 467. Physics of Biomacromolecules
Advanced topics in the equilibrium and dynamic behavior of biomacromolecules.
Theoretical approaches that will be addressed include path integral approaches to polymer Green function theory,
polymer field theory, application of Smoluchowski and fractional Fokker Planck equations to biopolymer transport, and Brownian dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations.
These methods will be applied to topics such as DNA/protein semiflexibility, DNA supercoiling, lyotropic polymer ordering, anomalous diffusion in crowded environments, motor-protein transport, and protein dynamics.