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Subject: On-Line Biophysics Textbook Update
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Now that the new academic year has begun, you may be interested in new resources
for teaching biophysics that are being provided through the Biophysical 
Society-sponsored On-Line Biophysics Textbook. The Textbook may be reached 
through the Society Home page URL

http://www.faseb.org/biophys/society/biohome.htm
or directly
http://biosci.cbs.umn.edu/biophys/OLTB/Textbook.html

All of the teaching articles which have been published in Biophysical Journal 
are now available on the Web. Titles and authors are:

* Teaching Molecular Biophysics at the Graduate Level
       Norma Allewell and Victor Bloomfield
* Graduate Training in Cellular Biophysics
       Thomas D. Pollard
* Teaching Electron Diffraction and Imaging of Macromolecules 
       Wah Chiu, Michael F. Schmid, and B.V. Venkataram Prasad 
* Teaching High-Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Graduate
  Students in Biophysics
       Laura Lerner and David A. Horita
* Teaching Active Transport At the Turn of the Twenty-First Century:
  Recent Discoveries and Conceptual Changes
       Giuseppe Inesi
* Teaching Medical Physics to General Audiences
       Suzanne Amador
* Approaches to Teaching Fluorescence Spectroscopy
       Catherine Royer
* XRayView: A Teaching Aid for X-Ray Crystallography
       George N. Phillips, Jr.
* Teaching Computer Interfacing with Virtual Instruments in an
  Object-Oriented Language
       Miriam Gulotta
* Calculation of Biochemical Net Reactions and Pathways by Using Matrix
  Operations
       Robert A. Alberty
* Teaching Light Scattering Spectroscopy: The Dimension and Shape of
  Tobacco Mosaic Virus
       Nuno C. Santos and Miguel A.R.B. Castanho
* Do's and Don'ts of Poster Presentation
       Stephen Block

We also have a few sections of chapters written specially for various volumes of
the On-Line textbook:

* Intermolecular forces
  Electrodynamic (van der Waals) forces
       Adrian Parsegian
* Thermodynamics
  Thermodynamics and Statistical Thermodynamics
       Victor Bloomfield
* Nucleic Acids
  DNA condensation
  (This is also linked to the Supramolecular Assemblies volume.)
       Victor Bloomfield


These articles and sections are in the form of pdf files which may be downloaded
and viewed using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. You may print them and 
distribute them to your students.

Please check out these additions and give us your reactions.

Carol Gross                         Victor Bloomfield
On-Line Textbook Coordinator        On-Line Textbook Editor




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Carol Gross                            cgross@biosci.cbs.umn.edu
Department of Biochemistry             612-625-5262 (voice)
College of Biological Sciences         612-625-3133 (voice)
University of Minnesota                612-625-5780 (fax)

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