PHYS 7741 — Physics of Biological Processes and Living Systems 2
4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: springtypical days: FBostonTraditional
Continues PHYS 7731. Focuses on theoretical approaches to understand complex emergent properties of living systems on molecular to organ scales. Topics include the physics of biopolymers with applications to DNA stretching and structural transitions, biomolecular reactions and their analysis in the framework of nonlinear dynamics including models of collective oscillations, the structure and dynamics of small and large transcriptional regulatory networks in bacteria and eukaryotic cells, Hodgkin-Huxley equations and their extension to reaction-diffusion models of wave dynamics in biological excitable media, Turing patterns and spatiotemporal control of cell fate during development, single and collective cell migration, neural networks in the brain and bio-inspired artificial neural networks. Includes the analysis of several illustrative experimental data sets.
Prerequisites
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2024 | 1 | 6 | 36 | 17% | 30.0 |
| Spring 2026 | 1 | 10 | 28 | 36% | 18.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 0% · T 38% · W 0% · Th 0% · F 100%
Common patterns: F (63% of sections), TF (38% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Spring
- Herbert Levine (63% of students) · reviews
- Alain Karma (38% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
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