The course covers biophysical methods for characterising conformational transitions and reaction mechanisms of proteins and other biological macromolecules. It is especially suited for students in the Biology MSc Majors “Structural Biology & Biophysics”, “Biochemistry”and “Chemical Biology”, as well as for MSc students of “Chemistry and Interdisciplinary Natural Sciences”.

The course provides an overview of several interdisciplinary and quantitative approaches to the study of biological problems, including transient spectroscopic techniques, biosensors and advanced light microscopy techniques. A brief tutorial on MatLab is followed by numerical analyses and modelling examples of biological problems.