Biophysics - Practice

Daten

Offizielle Daten in der Fachveröffentlichung für das folgende akademische Jahr: 2026-2027

Thematik

The Biophysics curse aims to introduce students to the methods and applications, that are routinely used in both medical and pharmaceutical biotechnology. The principles of the state-of-the-art approaches and instrumentations are covered by the topics. The course presents diverse spectroscopic techniques (absorption, fluorescence, infrared, Raman, EPR, NMR), imaging approaches (light and fluorescence microscopy, EM, super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, MRI, CT), radioactive applications, calorimetry, and fast kinetics techniques. The lectures discuss in detail the physical bases and principles of each approach and the field of applications. The practices are dedicated to expand the students' knowledge and routine with the use of different techniques. The practices lay special emphasis on presenting not only the routine applications but advanced uses of each technique. The limitations, as well as the artifacts that can be caused by improper experimental planning, are highlighted.

Vorlesungen

Praktika

• 1.

  Confocal microscopy, STED (Nano-Bio-Imaging Core Facility)

  - Jánosi Tibor Zoltán, Makkai Géza
• 2.

  Confocal microscopy, STED (Nano-Bio-Imaging Core Facility)

  - Jánosi Tibor Zoltán, Makkai Géza
• 3.

  STED, Confocal microscopy (Nano-Bio-Imaging Core Facility)

  - Makkai Géza, Jánosi Tibor Zoltán
• 4.

  STED, Confocal microscopy (Nano-Bio-Imaging Core Facility)

  - Makkai Géza, Jánosi Tibor Zoltán
• 5.

  SIM, STORM (Nano-Bio-Imaging Core Facility)

  - Huberné Barkó Szilvia, Jánosi Tibor Zoltán, Makkai Géza
• 6.

  SIM, STORM (Nano-Bio-Imaging Core Facility)

  - Huberné Barkó Szilvia, Jánosi Tibor Zoltán, Makkai Géza
• 7.

  Absorption photometry, fluorescence spectroscopy – protein research (Dept. of Biophysics)

  - Ujfalusi Zoltán
• 8.

  Absorption photometry, fluorescence spectroscopy – protein research (Dept. of Biophysics)

  - Ujfalusi Zoltán
• 9.

  Infrared and Raman spectroscopy (Dept. of Biophysics)

  - Telek Elek
• 10.

  Infrared and Raman spectroscopy (Dept. of Biophysics)

  - Telek Elek
• 11.

  Electron microscopy (Central Electron Microscope Lab.)

  - Agócs-Laboda Ágnes
• 12.

  Electron microscopy (Central Electron Microscope Lab.)

  - Agócs-Laboda Ágnes
• 13.

  MRI (Dept. of Biophysics)

  - Bukovics Péter
• 14.

  MRI (Dept. of Biophysics)

  - Bukovics Péter

Seminare

Materialien zum Aneignen des Lehrstoffes

Obligatorische Literatur

Vom Institut veröffentlichter Lehrstoff

All handouts and other related materials can be found in the Microsoft Teams group of the course.

Skript

Empfohlene Literatur

Voraussetzung zum Absolvieren des Semesters

There are no additional conditions.

Semesteranforderungen

One written test is scheduled during the semester covering the topics/calculations/etc discussed during the practices. The expected date: 13th week. The practical grade is obtained based on the result of the test.

Grading policy:

< 60% fail (1)

60 – 69% satisfactory (2)

70 – 79% average (3)

80 – 89% good (4)

> 90% excellent (5)

To pass, at least 60% has to be reached at the test.

Two retake tests will be scheduled at the end of the semester/in the exam period. The schedule will be provided during the semester.

Möglichkeiten zur Nachholung der Fehlzeiten

The schedule for making up the missed practices will be provided during the semester.

Prüfungsfragen

Topics of the exam questions:

Electromagnetic waves

Quantum numbers, NMR, MRI

Energy levels of atoms and molecules

Protein Structure. Introduction to protein engineering.

UV-VIS absorption spectroscopy

Fluorescence spectroscopy

Infrared and Raman spectroscopy

Flow cytometry

Light and fluorescence microscopy

Modern microscopic methods (STORM, STED, SIM, confocal, 2-photon)

Image analysis

Gamma camera, computed tomography (CT), single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET)

Radioactivity, the interaction of radioactive radiations with matter

Biological effects of radioactive radiations, dosimetry

X-ray crystallography, SAXS, EM

Thermodynamics: laws and thermodynamic potentials

Calorimetry: differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC)

Analytical separation techniques: sedimentation, electrophoresis

Analytical separation techniques: chromatographic techniques

LASER

Prüfer

Praktika, Seminarleiter/innen

• Agócs-Laboda Ágnes
• Bukovics Péter
• Huberné Barkó Szilvia
• Jánosi Tibor Zoltán
• Lukács András Szilárd
• Makkai Géza
• Telek Elek
• Ujfalusi Zoltán