Workshop on Random Walks in Biological Physics with Focus on DNA and chromosome structure

Lecture 1: DNA (John F. Marko)

Not scheduled

1h 15m

1F Auditorium (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica)

Lecture 1

Speaker

Prof. John F. Marko (Northwestern University)

Description

DNA structure and biological role; DNA elastic deformation; worm-like-chain stat mech; unzipping of DNA by force; protein-DNA interactions (focus on structural chromosome-organizing proteins HU, Fis, IHF, H-NS, HMG-box proteins; histones and nucleosome).