chris jacobs - christopher.jacobs.at.stanford.edu ellen kuhl - ekuhl.at.stanford.edu ron kwon - ronkwon.at.stanford.edu yufen shi - yufenshi.at.stanford.edu fall 2007 tue thu 3:15-4:30 380-380d

goals

grading

• 30 % homework - 3 homework assignments, 10% each
  
• 30 % midterm - open notes, with calculators, no books
  
• 40 % project - oral presentations graded by the class, written part graded by us

syllabus

copyright ron kwon, ellen kuhl, chris jacobs, stanford, fall 2007

day	date		topic	notes
tue	sep	25	introduction I - cell biology	s01	jacobs
thu	sep	27	introduction II - cytoskeletal biology	s02	kwon
tue	oct	02	introduction III - mechanics	s03	kuhl
thu	oct	04	biopolymers I - bending & buckling	s04	kuhl
tue	oct	09	first homework - biopolymers	h01	solution
tue	oct	09	biopolymers II - statistical mechanics	s05	kwon
thu	oct	11	biopolymers III - gaussian chain	s06	kwon
tue	oct	16	biopolymers IV - freely jointed chain & wormlike chain	s07	kwon
thu	oct	18	second homework - biopolymers	h02	solution
thu	oct	18	cytoskeletal mechanics I - filopodia - fiber bundle model	s08	kwon
tue	oct	23	cytoskeletal mechanics II - red blood cells - six and four fold network model	s09	kwon
thu	oct	25	biomembranes I - pipette aspiration	s10	kwon
tue	oct	30	cytoskeletal mechanics III - muscle cells - tensegrity model		kuhl
thu	oct	01	third homework - cytoskeleton	h03
thu	nov	01	biomembranes II - soap bubbles & cell membranes	s12	kuhl
tue	nov	06	biomembranes III - tension, shear & bending	s13	kuhl
thu	nov	08	mechanotransduction I	s14	jacobs
tue	nov	13	mechanotransduction II	s15	jacobs
thu	nov	15	midterm	m01
tue	nov	27	mechanotransduction III	s16	jacobs
thu	nov	29	class projects - preparation, no class
tue	dec	04	class projects - oral presentations I
thu	dec	06	class projects - oral presentations II
fri	dec	14	class projects - written projects due

additional reading

(1) boal d: mechanics of the cell, cambridge university press, cambridge, 2002
(2) howard j: mechanics of motor proteins and the cytoskeleton, sinauer associates, sunderland, 2001

(3) alberts b et al.: molecular biology of the cell, garland science, taylor & francis, new york, 2002