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Appendix E: Physics and Engineering Panel Summary
Appendix E: Physics and Engineering Panel Summary
Pages 152-162
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He has taught in physics departments (from first-year physics to graduate condensed matter physics) , in chemistry departments (first-year chemistry to graduate biophysical chemistry)
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He has taught extensively, including courses on Physics and Music, Biophysical Principles of Microscopy, Techniques in Molecular Biophysics, Dynamics of Biophysical Processes, Science and Strategy in the Nuclear Arms Race, Living with Physics, and Introductory Modern Physics. He is a Fellow of the Biophysical Society and has received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Michigan.
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His research in theoretical biophysics and chemical physics focuses on theory of chemical reactions in condensed matter and rational design of functional proteins. He is a member of the Molecular Biophysics Training Grant Steering Committee at UCSD and served on UCSD's Task Force on Biological Sciences.
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Her research program is focused on investigating how to control the assembly of molecular building blocks into supramolecular complexes with predictable architecture. It involves nanoscale surface patterning, molecular motors and switches, biomaterials, assembly of extracellular matrix proteins, cell/surface interactions, biomineralization, surface analysis, optical spectroscopy, and microscopy.
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Given the increased emphasis of that course on physical measurement techniques, dynamical systems, modeling, and quantitative analysis, the panel felt that it was appropriate to address the question of balance between chemistry, physics, engineering, mathematics, and computer science in the new curriculum. In view of the importance for biology of materials that cannot be addressed within a oneyear physics course, offering an optional additional physics course is strongly recommended by the panel.
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However, added to the chosen subset of topics from today's introductory physics is a focus on the parts of physics relevant to biology at the molecular level, and on aspects of macrocsopic physics relevant to biological functions. A totally different pedagogy, of more relevance to molecular biology, beginning at the microscopic level, might be developed as an alternative course of study.
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Many majors should be encouraged to accept the B-Physics course as an alternative, including chemistry, math, computer science, and engineering majors. Having several majors accept one course as meeting requirements avoids having students become trapped in a particular major because they have chosen a particular introductory physics course.
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and biological fluid flows or motions of bacteria or bioparticles in water provide excellent opportunities. The laboratory should begin with sessions based on step-by-step instruction, data sheets, equations given, and minimal writing.
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Students should be frequently confronted throughout their biology curriculum with questions and tasks such as how they would design "xxx," and how they wouldt test to see whether their conceptual design actually works. They should be asked to simulate their system, determine its rate constants, determine regimes of stability and instability, investigate regulatory feedback mechanisms, and other challenges.
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. Biological Imaging including the properties of light, thin lens laws, resolution, and diffraction orders, the lens as a Fourier transform, fluorescence, confocal microscopy, MRI, electron microscopy, tomography, and deconvolution.
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Topics would include organ physiology, hormones and endocrine loops, paracrine effects, systems analysis of control loops, the importance of temporal aspects of hormones, and examples such as cardiac control loops and circadian rhythms. · Biological Motors and Molecular Machines.
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