Course Outline

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Bacterial Photosynthesis:

• Architecture of the cellular apparatus
• Participating proteins and their functions
• Formation of the apparatus
• Physical mechanisms underlying the function of individual components
• Coordination of functions of multiple components

Life cycle of slime mold amoebae:

• Biological clocks and signaling
• Organization of amoebae motion
• Morphogentic fields from reaction-diffusion processes in amoebae colony
• Normal mode analysis of pattern formation
• Chemotaxis
• Cellular automata to describe self-aggregation of multi-cellular slug from colony of individual amoebae
• Organization principles for slug motion and development
• Slime mold genomics

Vision:

• Molecular sensing
• Signal amplification through G-Proteins
• Synaptic transmission
• Neural spikes
• Cable equation
• Morphogenesis of visual maps in LGN and cortex
• Neural computation: Associative networks
• Self-organizing maps, visual maps, motor maps, visuo-motor control.

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