About the Program

Selected Courses

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Intermediary Metabolism, membrane biochemistry, DNA replication, gene regulation, mRNA metabolism, and protein synthesis.

Cell and Developmental Biology
Structural and functional relationships of intracellular organelles, signal transduction, cellular components of the immune system, embryiogenesis, and systems used in the study of development.

Physiology and Biochemistry
Principles of physiology, biochemistry, and histology.

Introduction to Methods in Theoretical Biophysics
Electrostatics, Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics.

Biophysics I
Structural determinations, fundamentals of molecular interactions, molecular dynamics of biomolecular systems, energetics of enzyme reactions, and protein and DNA folding.

Biophysics II
Introduction to membrane structures, fundamentals of energetics and thermodynamics of lipid aggregation, spectroscopy and membrane dynamics, membrane proteins, voltage and ligand-gated ion channels.

Introduction to Bioinformatics
Sequence retrieval, homology searching, methods of sequence alignment.

Introduction Computer Modeling and Macromolecules
Visualisation methods as implemented in different softwares, special tools tailored for proteins and nucleic acids, docking.

Selected Advanced Course Work
Principles of Neurobiology, Neurophysiology, Advanced Physiology of Muscle, Advanced Molecular Biology, Advanced Cell Biology, Signal Transduction, Computer Modeling of Macromolecules, Computation in Molecular Biology, or Biomathematical Modeling. Interaction and Dynamics of Biological Macromolecules.

Selected Electives
Neurochemistry, Developmental Neurobiology, Neurobiological Methods, Neurobiology of Aging, Neuroendocrinology, Immunology, Biochemical Pharmacology, Enzymology, and Physical Biochemistry.