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Biophysics
Major: Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Code of subject: 6.162.01.E.082
Credits: 4.00
Department: Technology of Biologically Active Substances, Pharmacy and Biotechnology
Lecturer: Associate Professor, Ph. D. Diana Baranovych
Semester: 5 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: • to know the principles and methods required to understanding the biophysical mechanisms of living systems.
Required prior and related subjects: Prerequisites:
• Physics
• General Microbiology and Virology
• Chemistry (Physical and Colloid Chemistry)
Co-requisites:
• Mathematical Modelling of Microbiological Processes
• Foundations of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
• Express Diagnostics and Bioavailability of Medicines
Summary of the subject: Biological thermodynamics. Quantum biophysics. Molecular biophysics. The structural basis of membrane function. Passive and active transport of substances through the cell membrane.
Assessment methods and criteria: • current control – 30 points (written report on laboratory work, individual work, control test);
• final control (test) — final test - 70 points.
Recommended books: 1. Biofizyka / Kostiuk P.H., Zyma V.L., Mahura I.S., Miroshnychenko M.S., Shuba M.F. - K.: Oberehy, 2001. - 545 s. 2. Byofyzyka / Yu.A. Vladymyrov, D.Y. Roshchupkyn, A.Ia. Potapenko, A.Y. Deev / Pod. red. Yu.A. Vladymyrova - M.: Medytsyna, 1983. - 273 s. 3. Derkach M. Osnovy biofizyky - Lviv: Vydavnytstvo Lvivskoho universytetu, 1967. - 278 s. 4. Kuzminskyi Ye.V. Biofizyka: pidruchnyk dlia studentiv vyshchykh navchalnykh zakladiv. / Kuzminskyi Ye.V., Holub N.B.. - K.: "Vydavnychyi dim "Komppiuterpres", 2007. - 421 s.