Summer School on Computational Materials Science
2002
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Biological Ion Channels as Nanoscale Devices

Trudy van der Straaten - trudyv@uiuc.edu

Beckman Institute

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Outline of Lecture

  1. Biological Ion Channels as Nanoscale Devices
    1. Background on protein chemistry and ion channels
    2. Patch-clamp measurements
    3. Gating Mechanisms
    4. Selectivity
    5. Ion channels as nanodevices
    6. Computational issues
    7. Poisson-Nernst-Planck (PNP) or Drift-diffusion continuum simulation
    8. PROPHET simulator
    9. Drift diffusion simulation of conduction in gramicidin and porin channels
    10. Calculating protein charges
    11. Diffusivity estimation
    12. Ion channel mutations
    13. Monte Carlo particle simulation

Lecture 1

Biological Ion Channels as Nanoscale Devices
  Presentation - download (2.6 MB PDF)

Lab Exercises

  1-D PNP Ion Channel Simulator - download (372 KB PDF)

 


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