Biomolecules Folding and Disease

Elements of Biophysics (68469) is a 32-hour course given by Emidio Capriotti. The course was running from October 13th to October 24th, 2025 and the lectures will be given in presence. This page will include all the slides and materials of the course, which is also available on the virtuale platform.

• Materials
  

  Course Schedule
  Basic Thermodynamics Concepts	13 October, 2025.
  Chemical Potential, Mixtures and Reactions	14 October, 2025.
  Kinetics and Enzymes	15 and 16 October, 2025.
  Proteins	17, 20 and 21 October, 2025.
  Biological Systems	22 October, 2025.
  Protein-protein interaction	23 October, 2025.
  Amino acids properties	24 October, 2025.
  Course Project Implementation	24 October, 2024.
  Introduction to the Linux shell




• Requirements
  

This is a theoretical course which may require the use of PC.




• References
  

Biophysics: An Introduction (2° Edition). by Roland Glaser, Springer.

Biophysical Chemistry by James P. Allen, Wiley.

Molecular and Cellular Biophysics by Meyer B. Jackson, Cambridge University Press.

Installation of Ubuntu on WSL, by Ubuntu.

Learning the Bash Shell, by Cameron Newham & Bill Rosenblatt, O'Reilly.




• Previous Editions
  

October 2024:	The previous edition of the course Elements of Biophysics (14-25 October, 2024) was successfully completed (more information are available here).
October 2023:	The previous edition of the course Elements of Biophysics (16-27 October, 2023) was successfully completed (more information are available here).
October 2022:	The previous edition of the course Elements of Biophysics (17-28 October, 2022) was successfully completed (more information are available here).