Introduction to Modern Biophysics

Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman, a biophysicist and condensed matter scientist, is passionate about investigating biological and biochemical processes utilizing physics principles and techniques. He is a professor of Biophysics at King Saud University’s Biochemistry Department of College of Science, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the co-founder of MDT Canada Inc., and the founder of Child Life Development Institute, Edmonton, Canada. He authored Biophysics and Nanotechnology of Ion channels, Nanoscale Biophysics of the Cell, and Membrane Biophysics. He also published around 50 peer-reviewed articles, edited two books, and has been serving on editorial boards of Elsevier and Bentham Science journals. Dr. Ashrafuzzaman has had held research and academic ranks at Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, University of Neuchatel (Switzerland), Helsinki University of Technology (Finland), Weill Medical College of Cornell University (USA), and University of Alberta (Canada). Dr. Ashrafuzzaman obtained his highest academic degree, Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in condensed matter physics from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland in 2004.

• Chapter 1: Physical Understanding of Biological Systems: Past, Present, and the Future. Chapter 2: Biophysics of Life. Chapter 3: Stochasticity in Biological Systems. Chapter 4: Biological Energetics. Chapter 5: Biochemical Energetics. Chapter 6: Biomolecular Machines. Chapter 7: Forces and Motion in Biological Systems. Chapter 8: Surface Biophysics. Chapter 9: Biochemical Thermodynamics. Chapter 10: Nucleic Acid Structure and Stability. Chapter 11: Biophysics of Proteins and Proteomics. Chapter 12: Physics Tools and Techniques in Bioimaging. Chapter 13: Quantum Biophysics. Chapter 14: Computational Biomodeling. Chapter 15: Biophysics Tools in Bioinformatics and Genomics. Chapter 16: Biophysical Economics. Epilogue.