August 22: Course intro
August 29: Models for chemical reactions
September 5: No lecture
September 12: The cell membrane
- Nernst equilibrium potential
- Transmembrane currents
September 19: The cell membrane continued
- Channel gating
- Carrier mediated transport (uniport)
September 26:
- Carrier mediated transport contd. (symport, antiport)
- The cable equation
October 3: No lecture
October 10: Excitability, the Hodgkin-Huxley model
October 14: Excitability and signal propagation
- Excitable cells continued, cardiac cells
- Bidomain and monodomain model
- Presentation of assignment
October 22: Wave propagation in excitable media + rate constants as probabilities
October 31: Calcium dynamics
November 7: No lecture
November 14: Cell contraction and models for the circulatory system
(Code for simulations of circulatory system can be found here: http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/peskin/ModSimPrograms/ch1)
November 21-28: Questions, repetition, exam preparations
December 3: exam