{"id":3800,"date":"2010-07-02T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/program\/for-current-students\/degree-requirements\/biophysics-track\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T11:18:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T15:18:17","slug":"biophysics-track","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/program\/for-current-students\/degree-requirements\/biophysics-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Biophysics Track Degree Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Fulfill departmental requirements<\/p>\n<p>For TA opportunities &#8211; serve one semester as a teaching assistant in Biophysics modules<\/p>\n<h2>Course Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>(<i>term, # of credit hours in parentheses<\/i>)<\/p>\n<h3>Required Track Cores<\/h3>\n<h4>In addition to the departmental core courses (BIOC 704\/710), complete the biophysics core courses listed below:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>BIOC 649* Essentials of Macromolecular Science: Review basic principles of chemical &amp; computational science, led by faculty\/students (Fall, 1.5) *This course is only required for people who enter the program before 2018.<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 650 Basic Principles: From basic models to collections of macromolecules (Fall, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 651 Macromolecular Equilibria: Conformation change and binding (Fall, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 652 Macromolecular Structure &amp; Dynamics (Fall, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 662 Macromolecular Interactions or BIOC 670 Structural Bioinformatics (Spring, 1) *This course is only required for students who matriculated 2023 and after.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Additional required courses:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>BCB888\/BIOC 888 &#8211; Responsible conduct of research (spring, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 716 Biophysics Colloquium (fall\/spring, 0.5); total of 2 credits *This course is required for students who matriculated 2023 and after.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><i>Choose three from these modules:<\/i><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Biophysics Program Modules<\/span><i>: <\/i><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>BIOC 660 Imaging (Spring, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 662 Macromolecular Interactions (Spring, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 663A and 663B Macromolecular NMR and Theory (Spring, 1 ea)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 664 Macromolecular Spectroscopy: Principles and Applications (Spring, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 665 Advanced NMR (Spring, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 666 X-ray Crystallography of Macromolecules (Spring, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 667 Macromolecular Crystallographic Methods (Spring, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 669 Advanced Macromolecular Crystallographic Methods (Spring, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 670 Structural Bioinformatics (Spring, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 673 Proteomics, Protein Identification &amp; Characterization by Mass Spec. (Spring, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 674 Ion Channels Transporters (Spring, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BIOC 675 Fundamentals of Cryo-Electron Microscopy (Spring, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BCB 715: Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Modeling Signaling Pathways and Regulatory Networks (Fall, 1)<\/li>\n<li>BMME 490\/890: Super Resolution \u2013 imaging beyond limits (Fall, 1)<\/li>\n<li>PHCO 750 Proteomics Methods and Applications (Spring, 1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Electives<\/h3>\n<h4>Complete a minimum of three credit hours from the options listed below:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Choose from any graduate-level course in a discipline supportive of biomedical research training, excluding the Biophysics track and Departmental core courses, and including<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Molecular &amp; Cell Biology<\/span><br \/>\nBIOC 631 Advanced Molecular Biology I (Spring, 4)<br \/>\nBIOC 706 Biochemistry of Human Disease (Fall, 3)<\/li>\n<li><i>OR choose from these modules:<\/i><br \/>\nBIOC 740-745 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