Biomedical Applications of Biophysics

Thomas Jue is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the University of California Davis. He is an internationally recognized expert in develop-ing and applying magnetic resonance techniques to study animal as well as human physi-ology in vivo and has published extensively in the field of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging, near-infrared spectroscopy, bioenergetics, cardiovascular regu-lation, exercise, and marine biology. As the Chair of the Biophysics Graduate Group Program at University of California Davis, he launched an initiative to establish a biophysics book series that will balance the physical-science/mathematics formalism with the biomedical perspective in order to develop an attractive education curriculum at the interface of physical science, engineering, mathematics, biology, and medicine. The Handbook of Modern Biophysics represents part of that curriculum development effort.

• Protein Structure Prediction.- Molecular Modeling of Biomembranes: A How-to Approach.- to Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.- Theory and Applications of Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy.- FRET and Its Biological Application as a Molecular Ruler.- to Modern Techniques in Mass Spectrometry.- Transmission Electron Microscopy and Computer-Aided Image Processing for 3D Structural Analysis of Macromolecules.- Raman Spectroscopy of Living Cells.

From the reviews:“Introduces the fundamental physics concepts underlying described procedures, describes the instrumentation or technique, and illustrates the application in studying current biomedical problems. This book brings current biophysics topics into focus. … With the addition of problem sets, guides to further study and references, the interested reader can continue to independently explore the ideas presented. … will be a useful comparison for moderately advanced users wishing to extend their skills and can be recommended as valuable textbook for undergraduate as well as graduate students.” (Mária Karmažínová, General Physiology and Biochemistry, May, 2011)