Biomedical Applications of Biophysics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Protein Structure Prediction

   • Patrice Koehl

   Pages 1-34

3. Molecular Modeling of Biomembranes: A How-to Approach

   • Allison N. Dickey, Roland Faller

   Pages 35-58

4. Introduction to Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

   • Marcin Brynda

   Pages 59-98

5. Theory and Applications of Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy

   • James B. Ames

   Pages 99-118

6. FRET and Its Biological Application as a Molecular Ruler

   • Jie Zheng

   Pages 119-136

7. Introduction to Modern Techniques in Mass Spectrometry

   • Caroline S. Chu, Carlito B. Lebrilla

   Pages 137-154

8. Transmission Electron Microscopy and Computer-Aided Image Processing for 3D Structural Analysis of Macromolecules

   • Dominik J. Green, R. Holland Cheng

   Pages 155-183

9. Raman Spectroscopy of Living Cells

   • Tyler Weeks, Thomas Huser

   Pages 185-210

10. Erratum: Biomedical Applications of Biophysics

    • Thomas Jue

    Pages E1-E1

11. Back Matter

    Pages 211-237

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In keeping with goal and style of the Handbook in Modern Biophysics series, the proposed book will maintain a chapter structure that contains two parts: concepts and biological application. The book also integrates all the chapters into a smooth, continuous discourse. The first and second chapters establish the mathematical methods and theoretical framework underpinning the different topics in the rest if the book. Other chapters will use the theoretical framework as a basis to discuss optical and NMR approaches. Each chapter will contain innovative didactic elements that facilitate teaching, self-study, and research preparation (key points, summary, exercise, references).

• Applications
• Biomed
• Biomedical
• Biophys
• Biophysics
• FRET
• Handbook
• Hbk
• Jue
• Transmission
• electron microscopy
• electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy
• magnetic resonance
• magnetic resonance spectroscopy
• microscopy

From the reviews:

“Introduces the fundamental physics concepts underlying described procedures, describes the instrumentation or technique, and illustrates the application in studying current biomedical problems. This book brings current biophysics topics into focus. … With the addition of problem sets, guides to further study and references, the interested reader can continue to independently explore the ideas presented. … will be a useful comparison for moderately advanced users wishing to extend their skills and can be recommended as valuable textbook for undergraduate as well as graduate students.” (Mária Karmažínová, General Physiology and Biochemistry, May, 2011)

• Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, USA

  Thomas Jue

Thomas Jue is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of California Davis. He is an internationally recognized expert in develop-ing and applying magnetic resonance techniques to study animal as well as human physi-ology in vivo and has published extensively in the field of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging, near-infrared spectroscopy, bioenergetics, cardiovascular regu-lation, exercise, and marine biology. As the Chair of the Biophysics Graduate Group Program at University of California Davis, he launched an initiative to establish a biophysics book series that will balance the physical-science/mathematics formalism with the biomedical perspective in order to develop an attractive education curriculum at the interface of physical science, engineering, mathematics, biology, and medicine. The Handbook of Modern Biophysics represents part of that curriculum development effort.

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