Teaching YEAR: 2011 AUTUMN SEMESTER BT 205 Biophysics (2-1-0-6)   Structure and structural dynamics of DNA, RNA and proteins; techniques for monitoring structure and dynamics: absorption, fluorescence, circular dichroism, light scattering; methods for separation and characterization of molecules; size-exclusion chromatography; electrophoresis; MALDI–TOF; ESI–quadrupole mass spectrometry; thermodynamics and equilibria of macromolecules in solution; biophysics of membranes; photobiological processes; nerve impulse; muscle contraction; modelling biological processes; protein folding and aggregation; protein function (Myosin and Kinesin). YEAR: 2012 SPRING SEMESTER BT 310   Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Laboratory (0-0-6-6)   Molecular databases and their organization; Analysis of Restriction sites in a known DNA fragment; Design of a specific PCR primer for an amplicon; Homology search algorithm; Multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis; Gene identification strategies; Identification of structural and functional motifs; Visualization and analysis of protein structure; Homology Modeling of protein.